Why did Siva cut off Ganesh's head?bobby1933August 14 2016, 08:17:07 UTC
Probably because Hindu Gods were sort of like our God used to be -- jealous. Without his elephant head and his protruding abdomen Ganesha was supposed to have been very beautiful.
Re: Why did Siva cut off Ganesh's head?jayyyAugust 16 2016, 03:44:31 UTC
How dare you.
You call the God jealous, when His very name means Good, yet you ignore the silver-ware thieves and the trumpeters of the prison-cage. You will see someday, but until then I suggest you refrain from commenting on God and sit still in that vacuum Dao.
It seems to me that "understanding" God is not necessary. What is necessary is the act of faith, i.e., accepting that there is something greater than ourselves that can restore us to sanity, and the decision to turn our will and our lives over to that something. For many, especially at first, it is the Al-Anon program itself. When I was in Al-Anon, all those many years ago, a woman said one evening that her Higher Power was a doorknob. In retrospect maybe she meant that the doorknob had the power to get her out of a situation. But as I took it at the time, it was simply an object outside of herself onto which she projected Godness, maybe deliberately chosen for being so mundane and unreligious so as to avoid any association with her negative experience of "God" as she had previously understood "Him". Sort of deliberately ludicrous, but meant to function as any other pagan idol, statue of a saint, all the physical icons to which we assign sacredness
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Yes, i like this. And pretty much agree. "Faith is acceptance of emptiness and silence." It takes faith to create the Fog Of Forgetting. It takes faith to work a 12 step program.
Shiva realized that his great "sacrifice" of drinking poison was in vain - people were misusing money and power and disorder was prevailing in the society. So he went on penance to think about the situation. During his absence, the situation got worse. Following her dharma to restore balance, Goddess Parvati created Ganesh through her powers whose objective was to bring wealth and prosperity i the world. (thats why we associate riddhi-siddhi and shubh-labh with his name). After some time, when Parvati came to know that Shiva is returning, she decided to take a special suchita bath and dress up to meet him. She instructed Ganesha that no-one should be allowed to enter the chamber
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Ahem. excuse me.
So yeah. Why did Shiva cut off Ganesh's human head?
Hmm?
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You call the God jealous, when His very name means Good, yet you ignore the silver-ware thieves and the trumpeters of the prison-cage. You will see someday, but until then I suggest you refrain from commenting on God and sit still in that vacuum Dao.
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As to the rest, try to understand what i mean rather than what you might imagine that i wrote. You are intelligent.
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And pretty much agree.
"Faith is acceptance of emptiness and silence."
It takes faith to create the Fog Of Forgetting.
It takes faith to work a 12 step program.
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Convincing yourself that nothingnesses provide REASON for faith is the REASON for your faithlessness.
Keep following reason, and you'll never get to know the infinitudes of the clear spaces. Faith is required step 1.
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Each a family.
Arjuna looks only at the God, the true God, upside down and rightside up, hardly seeing Krishna at all.
The flute plays music, but the eyes of Him are on God. I will trust in Jesus and His incarnations over this inveritable sea of infants.
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Do you know that which why he turneth blue?
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