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The deity is made of black granite, and the entire
mandapam is also granite. Yantra and Navrattna (9
precious gems) were placed underneath the deity by Dr.
G. K. Kumar, the founder of the Temple. Yantra was made
by Pujya Shri Guru Sarvajanopakari Dr. V. V. Swarna
Venkatesa Deekshitar of Chidambaram, and the deity was
installed with vaidika yantra prathistha as per agamic
rites.
The auspicious time was decided by Guruji Pujya Shri
Guru Sarvajanopakari Dr. V. V. Swarna Venkatesa
Deekshitar of Chidambaram, and miraculously, the deity
was installed two minutes before the auspicious time
would be over. To read more about the day of the
installation, October 19, 1999.
Lord Ganesha – The Lord of Remover of Obstacles
Lord Ganesha is the first Ishta Devata, the chosen God,
of all Hindus, regardless of their sectarian position.
Worship of Lord Ganesha leads the devotee most naturally
to the other great Gods.
Until you have established a rapport with Lord Ganesha,
you cannot establish a relationship with Krishna,
Ayyappan, Amman, Vishnu, Rama, Hanuman, Lakshmi, Sita,
Radharani, Siva or Murugan outside your own limited
concepts. It is Ganesha who introduces you to the
millions of Gods of the Hindu pantheon, none else. That
is the way it works, as Lord Ganesha is the God of
spiritual wisdom.
Among all the wonderful Hindu Deities, Lord Ganesha is
the closest to the material plane of consciousness, most
easily contacted and most able to assist us in our
day-to-day life and concerns. In his hands Ganesha
wields a noose and a goad. With the noose He can hold
you close, or hold obstacles close. Ganesha can capture
and confine both blessings and obstacles. With the goad
Ganesha can strike and repel obstacles. This Lord is
called Remover of Obstacles, but He also places
obstacles in our way, for sometimes his devotees are
proceeding in the wrong direction, and His obstacles
block their progress and guide them slowly back onto the
straight path of dharma. When instinctive willfulness
causes the seeker to decide to step out the bondaries of
dharma, the Lord of Obstacles is there to block the way.
His emblem is the swastika, symbolizing His circuitous
course in guiding the seeker through life’s perplexing
experiences.
Worship of Him strengthens your memory, builds character
and brings knowledge from the within. It also protects
you from the lower forces, which reside in the
little-known chakras below the muladhara. These darker
charkas govern fear, anger, jealousy and the confused
thinking centered around self-preservation.
The first chakra below the muladhara governs the state
of mind of fear and lust. The chakra below that governs
raging anger, which comes from despair or from threats
to one’s self-will and can make people even angry with
God. The third chakra below the muladhara governs
retaliatory jealousy, pride and arrogance, which are
associated with feelings of inadequacy, inferiority and
helplessness. At this level the only safe sadhana is
japa, repetition of simple mantras. People who live in
the consciousness of this chakra often deny the
existence of God and are contentiously combative with
one another. The fourth chakra down governs prolonged
confusion and instinctive willfulness, the desire to
receive rather than to give. Those in this region of
mind proclaim the existence of materialistic advancement
over everything else. Hatred arises here as unwholesome
vasanas build one upon another. The fifth chakra below
the muladhara is the very home of the instinctive mind’s
cruel selfishness. People in the consciousness of theis
chakra are capable of actions without conscience. They
see to their own well-being at all costs, think only of
“I, me and mine.” The sixth chakra down is the realm of
absence of conscience, which brings about theft, fraud
and other dishonest dealings. People in this state of
mind believe the world owes them a living and they can
simply take from it what they please from whomever they
please. The seventh and last chakra below the muladhara
governs malice, also without conscience, expressed
through revenge, torture for the joy of it, murder for
the sake of murder, the destruction of other’s property,
mind, emotion or physical body. Hatred abides here.
Reason seldom reaches those who live in this state of
mind.
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