Novella of Indian Mythology

How Father Beheaded His Son?

Let’s Welcome the Lord Ganesha  in this blog post. Ganesha might be the only god from the tier II level to be worshipped as prominently as the Trinity or the incarnations of the Trinity. Here Tier II gods mean  basically the sons and daughters of the Trinity or other gods which are just a level below the Trinity and in no way it was a mean to disrespect to sentiments of the people or his devotees. Not only that Ganesha must be worshipped before any god is worshipped and must be invoked during any Puja and Yajna for  its completeness.

Lord Ganesha was blessed by the Trinity for all these things.To understand the story lets look a little back to understand the story of the birth of the Ganesha.

Once Lord Parvati was  going to meet  Lord Shiva while he was meditating .The Nandi , the mount of lord Shiva obstructed the path of Parvati and make her aware of the fact that Shiva had instructed him not to allow anybody to meet him while he was meditating.Parvati has no choice but to return .

Once Parvati was taking a bath and need someone to guard the door while she was inside. She thought of calling Nandi or other Ganas of Lod Shiva but the friendParvatirvati reminded her that these people wouldn’t go beyond the command of Lord Shiva  and are not dutiful to Parvati instead only obey Shiva.If Shiva commands  them to move aside they would not have any choice but leave the path unprotected.So they need someone who only listens to Parvati and do as per the command of Parvati.Then Parvati created a human menaquinone from the dirt of her body  and then induced life form in it and named it “Vinayak”.She commanded him not to allow anybody to enter the premises  while she is inside and provided Ganesha with divine power and weapons.

Then After some time Lord shiva arrived there and wanted to meet Parvati and  Ganesha(Vinayaka) was standing firmly outside the gate of the premises and was not allowing Shiva to enter the premises.Shiva  got infuriated and had to return and in the meanwhile asked his followers to remove the Ganesha from the door and after that the would arrive.All the Ganas of the Shiva including Nandi   fought with Ganesha but cannot  stand a ground against the divine power provided by Parvati to Ganesha. Now Devas like Indra,Agni etc fought with Ganesha but  all were defeated and finally  Mahadeva himself had to arrive at the battle scene and he  cut the head of the Ganesha with his ultimate weapon Trishul. The cry from the Ganesha while his head being severed from Shiva’s Trishul forced Parvati to come outside.Seeing  the headless body of Ganesha  provoked her to  take the form of Kali ,”The Goddess of Destruction” and started began destroying the universe. Everyone pleaded before her to stop the destruction.She told them she would not stop until her son is not alive.Everyone started thinking of possible solution then Sri Hari suggested the Ganas and the other gods to move into the North direction and bring the head of the first living being in the sleeping state.Then Ganas went into that direction and brought the head of the elephant which was later fixed by the Brahma on the body of Ganesha and brought to live.

Parvati also asked for the boon to Ganesha that he would be first to be worshipped among the gods which was granted by none other than lord shiva who provided him with weapons and bestowed the privilege to worshipped first even before himself and pronounced Ganesha to be the leader of his Ganas .Thus Ganesh became “Ganapati” and every other god also bestowed some power to the Ganesha  who ultimately become the god of well-being and Growth of Humanity.

And since Ganesha was born on the Fourth day of Shukla Paksha that’s why Ganesh birthday is celebrated as Ganesh Chaturthi.Later  Ganesha wedded two wives namely “Ridhi” and “Sidhi”.Now more on Ganesha  on some later post and let’s celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi on this auspicious day.

“Ganpati  Bappa Morya”