Lord Ganesha and Removing Obstacles: An Ancient Teaching for Modern Life

So Lord Ganesha is most commonly depicted as the elephant god.

He has the body of a man, but the head of a god, or of a elephant, I mean.

Um, and that's a whole nother story.

It's ki- It, it...

I love Hindu mythology 'cause it's just wild, but it's beautiful.

Um, but Shiva is his dad.

And so anyway, Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, and he's usually depicted with either four or six arms.

Usually four, but I prefer the six-handed one because it offers a little bit more, uh, juice to the squeeze, I suppose.

And I might also be a little bit more, uh, prone to the six-handed Ganesha because that is the Ganesha that I have tattooed on my arm.

So obviously, I might, I might be a little partial to that one.

Um, and yeah.

I mean, in, in Hinduism and in India, there are hundreds of different gods, but I found it very interesting that people in families typically would, um, kind of like latch on to one specific god for their family that they, um, really pulled on or relied on or, like, gave more, um- Attention to or called more energy upon.

Um, and I thought that was really neat because it was very unique to each person.

And it's like all the God's energy is great energy.

So it's like there's no wrong choice, but there's so many different aspects to our good energy, whether it be removing obstacles or it be fortune or it be purity of heart or it be femininity or masculinity or, um, disillusioning people, you know, like, um, burning, burning fear and burning, um, illusions away to reveal the truth as Kali does.

You know, there's all these just different beautiful aspects to represent all the different beautiful aspects of people.

So, and of like world and nature as a whole.

Um, so I think that's really beautiful.

But anyway, so upon my journeys, um, I really latched on to Lord Ganesha.

I loved his story and I loved the whole idea of him being the remover of obstacles.

I think, I guess I felt I had a lot of obstacles and I, but I always got through them very, very like great, but it was never planned.

Like I never knew how it was gonna happen.

I was just like, whatever, it's just gonna work out great.

And it would, or, or it would like, it would just work out in ways I could have never dreamed of.

So, but that's what happens when you are in flow anyway.