SHRI GANESHA
AND HIS aMOTHER
story about auspiciousness
THE DIVINE COOL BREEZE
March
and
April 2007 • Volume 20 • Issue
number
2
You call me “Holy Mother,”
but are you respectful like that? Do you know
what I am?
Ganesha knew. Once his Father said, “Whosoever
goes around the Mother Earth first, I’ll give that
person a present.”
So there was a race. Shri Ganesha had a brother,
Kartikeya. Now Kartikeya, he had a nice vahana,
a nice vehicle – it was a peacock – while Ganesha
had just a little rat, a mouse. He could never have
competed with him in this race to go around the
Earth.
So Ganesha said, “Who is greater than my Mother?
She’s the greatest of all. What is this Mother Earth
or anyone compared to Her? She can create so
many Mother Earths just like that.”
So He just went round Her right there where She
was, on his little mouse, in no time at all. He got
the prize and all the time this Kartikeya was still
in the air flying.
So that is what it is: to understand the auspiciousness. It is a subtle thing.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1992
Photograph Captions, Credits and other Notes
Front cover: Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Easter Puja 2007 (Paul Anant) Contents pages photo:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Contents pages words: the 727nd name of the Goddess from the Sri Lalita
Sahasranama Pages 3 and 5: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Easter Puja 2007 (Paul Anant) Pages 6 and 7: the stage at
Shivaratri Puja 2007 (Anjan Upadhya) Page 9: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shivaratri Puja 2007 (Anjan Upadhya)
Page 15: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Guru Puja 1982, Nightingale Lane ashram, London (Ray Harris)
Page 18: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Diwali Puja 2001 Page 20, 25, 27 and 31: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Above: the sky at Birthday Puja, 21 March 2007 (Anjan Upadhya) Back cover photo: Freya Jeffrey, Birthday Puja
entertainment evening, 18 March 2007 (Paul Anant) Back cover quote: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1 December
1988 (“You can feel very fresh, if you can really meditate. It’s like a bath in your innocence, in your beautiful
personality and the whole of the tiredness and pressures vanish. Even the dancing is a very good way of clearing
out your pressures because, in the dance, you go into thoughtless awareness and also into the joy. The the joy is so
fulfilling that the joy of the spirit is much more than the joy of any worldly comforts or also of physical comforts. It
gives you physical comfort, it gives you mental comfort and it gives you also the spiritual comfort.”)
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