Ganesha, Christ, and Cosmic Consciousness

 This blog represents the fruits of my meditation this morning; I spent the entire time meditating on the archetypal energy of the Deity Hindus refer to as Ganesha.  Ganesha is one of many deity forms, each of which represents a universal energy that human beings work with, and are immersed in, on a daily basis.
     The main reason spiritual ideas have been conveyed by stories historically is their versatility.  Depending on the hearers’ disposition, perspective, and level of understanding, the meaning imparted to them will be different.  There are always many layers and levels to mythology, spirituality, and religion: just as many different perspectives on the story as there are people who are there to hear it.
     The meditation this morning that begged to be chronicled was regarding the parrallel stories of the Christian Jesus and the Hindu Ganapati.  There are many similarities; the differences in typical understandings of each of each individual story bear lucrative understandings that inform each other on brand-new levels.
     Ganesha was born solely from his mother, Shakti, or Prakrti.  His father, Shiva, was not involved whatsoever.  Jesus was born of a virgin, Mary, with no involvement whatsoever from his father, Joseph.  In Hinduism, the Goddess, Ganesha’s mother, represents the phenomenal world and all aspects within it.  She represents all physical attributes of everything, as well as any aspect of any experience, whether it is a thought, feeling, emotion, or any type of movement.  In Hinduism, the father represents the unseen and unknown counterpart to all phenomenon, the remote, unknown, and the unknowable, perfect equanimity and stillness.
     This perfect equanimity and stillness does not exist on this earth plane in which we live.  The father of Hinduism, much as the father of Christianity, is not for this world.  Even though the father does not exist here on this plane, he is a living experience within us.  Even though, in our outer world, we never see the total silence and stillness of the father, we still understand that he exists.
     Ganesha was murdered by his father, beheaded, and then resurrected, becoming an intercessor for humankind, between the earthly realm of experience, represented by shakti, the mother, which keeps us constantly off balance, and the heavenly realm of perfect stillness and equanimity, which is represented by shiva, the father.  As the intercessor, we understand the unattainablity of the father is the play of all manifestation, the imbalance and growth that the mother, shakti, is.
     Jesus was murdered by his father, by crucifixion, against his will.  He was then resurrected by his father, and became the intercessor for the humans on this world, and the stillness of the heavenly realms of existence on the plane of the father.
     This aspect of ourselves, represented by both Ganesha and Jesus, is the aspect that allows us, at a higher level, to see and experience the interplay of the movement of our mother and all her infinite manifestations against the backdrop of the subtle and overwhelming stillness and peace that underlies all this growth.  These two represent the living ideal for a human, who understands and lives the truth that all growth and manifestation is the imperative and mirror reflection of the stillness and peace we all seek.  This archetypal energy, when mastered allows one to create, through the enlightened perspective, heaven on earth, and earth on heaven, right now in this very moment.  From this perspective, we never see any deficiencies, we never see any problems, we only see manifestations on the backdrop of perfect stillness.
     Jesus and Ganesha are one and the same, the energy of the Lord of Cosmic consciousness, the unity of our earthly and heavenly nature, and the essence of what it means to be a human who has mastered the earth plane.

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