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Our human nature, filled with contradictions, occupied by all conflicting
forces and repository of all past losses and gains, must be offered to the
change of consciousness and the advent of the new evolutionary stage,
named “Supramental” by Sri Aurobindo: a Principle of unity and oneness in
egoless diversity that is to take the lead and replace the Mind at the helm.
It is in the light of this advent that one learnt to relate to the continued
presences of such beings as Krishna, Durga, Shiva, Ram and Hanuman,
Vishnu and Garuda, and, especially relevant to the first necessary
integration of our nature around its true psychic center, the main forces and
aspects of the great Shakti – Maheshwari, Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and
Mahasaraswati.
For, without the Mother’s Force and Grace, this transformation of our nature
is not possible.
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Lord Ganesha has a very distinct and incomparable position in this holy tribe
of great beings in many respects and his popularity amidst all classes and
castes and milieus is unequalled.
It is possible to approach Lord Ganesha and to come into contact with his
presence from many sides and at many levels, or depths and widths of
experience; for instance, while he is said to be one with the Origin, to be
Aum itself, the primary creative sound that reverberates eternally through
all universes, he is also said to be the Shakti’s very own creation from Her
own substance, Her Guardian and, by extension, Her representative and the
bearer of Her Riches.
Perhaps due to his versatility and to his unexpected and unlikely but
successful harmonization of all the existing reigns in one single proportionate
figure, it is said as well that all the gods once upon a time agreed to
nominate him as their common ambassador and the first of them all to be
addressed and worshipped.
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One may ponder and puzzle endlessly over the question of who is creating
who: while it is generally understood that gods are eternal in their own plane
and enjoy an ease of being that can only be dreamt of by the struggling and
striving mortal human beings, if one glances through the records of the past
twenty centuries or so, one finds a progression or a journeying of each of
these gods through the anecdotes relating to each of them and meant to
convey their wisdom and power to our needy condition, as well as through
the successive changes of status and position in the general order of things,
one is faced with the fact of an inextricably consequential relationship