with Sri Ganesh

Finally, he came back “home” for the first week of January - of the new year. And there was calm between us, and we could do a lot of work happily, both at Sri Ganesh’s and in Sincerity.

The day I returned to Sri Ganesh’s to take up my duties again, I also resumed my daily notes-taking, albeit hesitantly and with misgivings…

- 25-12-09:

SARVA VIGHNAHARAM DEVAM SARVA VIGHNA VIVARJITAM I LAMBODARAM VISHAALAAKSHAM VANDOHAM GANANAAYAKAM II

Returned. Cleaned inside the shrine and did the puja to Sri Ganesh while Parthy cleaned outside and did some weeding out. The garden is entirely overgrown: there is so much work to be done. … Kasilingam, the fat politician, came in and offered Rs. 50/- (During my absence, Parthy would keep his motor-cycle parked inside the compound out of sight, so that no one of his acquaintances would come in to talk to him; as a result, most people may have thought no one was there or, at any rate, that I was surely not there and there were hardly any visitors to the temple and no one offered any money. Now that I have started again, we leave the motor-cycle outside and the gate half open.)

Today is Christmas and it is the first sunny day after weeks of deep and heavy overcast…

Sri Ganesh… seems to be happy – Giving the Force of Shiva, his lingam, with his right hand And letting the Shakti flow out consciously From his left With much illumination…

- 26-12-09:

… Just as yesterday, we share the tasks and, after I have completed the puja, I clean the pebbled areas and pathways while Parthy cuts grass and clears bunds…

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