Lord Ganesha

Om Shanti

Lord Ganesha is the best problem solver, best data scientist. Lord Ganesha – known as Vighan Vinashak, represents the power to solve the problems and analyzing it to find the next steps. Like any other power, the power to problem solve also needs support from other powers.

We know we live in a unified field/unified world/oneness. In nature we see, everything goes so well together, the sky leaves its reflection on the deep sea and the acceptance of the sea enables deep sea creatures to get the warmth of the Sun. The blue sky looks so beautiful from the mountain top, the slight chill gives the vibration of the heights and the calmness and coolness it has to offer. Nature is not to be ripped apart but to be seen as one entity, multiple energies combining to give one view to again many beings, to remain the same for everyone.

Similarly, the power to solve, the power to analyze and the power to be solution oriented, need to be harnessed and nurtured by many other powers like –

Power to be patient, power to be tolerant, power to be determined, power to concentrate even in the face of adversities, and many more (one can churn on this). And so, Lord Ganesha represents the blend of many powers combining in a ratio to give the product as a problem solver.

We see so many data scientists these days, creating beautiful world day by day by utilizing their powers to derive at a solution. The technology is moving so fast because the blend of powers of Lord Ganesha are bestowing its sustenance and its blessings on each one of us.

But it also becomes important to understand that the powers do not have a face. Lord Ganesha represents different aspects of the power to problem solve but in no way represents a being with such a body. One can find what the idol of Lord Ganesha represents easily over the internet, so I would not go into that detail. But the important point I would like to highlight is, the power has the face of the beholder. Beholder becomes the representator of that power and thus to have the power of Lord Ganesha, we need to become the beholder of that power and we need to learn to harness and nurture the ratio of all the other powers. Lord Ganesha lives in the thoughts of each one of us because we turn to him when we are faced with a situation and the blessing which Lord Ganesha gives is not a solution, but the power to find a solution, to come out of a situation by using the blessing.

Often it is depicted in our holy scriptures that someone prayed to the gods and received a blessing and with that blessing that person lived a choice of life. It is now that I realize that the blessing had always been the powers, which the person then used. It was never a direction but the raw power. And so, when we start to contemplate on Lord Ganesha (in other words start praying to him but not just verbally but intellectually) we pave a pathway for that power to enter into us, we build a gateway of acceptance for the powers to make the beholder its home. These powers have a consciousness of their own and they choose their container and so the container needs to please the powers, hence represented by great Tapasya done by all the great individuals.

We can see the imprints of Lord Ganesha’s powers in our bodies too. Afterall, as above so below! The body creates WBCs to fight any problem arising in the body and hence by contemplating on the powers of Lord Ganesha, we give the strength and direction to the body to word in any given problem as well. It is all related, the creator created everything in one way but we, due to lack of divine intellect, started ripping apart the entire existence trying to make sense by analyzing the small parts when the wonder lies in the whole!

There is an awakening in the world, to view things as a whole now and so the powers are now being awaken and are now looking for new containers. We need to make sure we are capable enough to sustain these powers.

Om Shanti

Breaking the Bondage of Time

I am sure each one of us has seen this image once in our life. This image reflects a masterpiece from Sistine chapel and is painted by Michelangelo. Its one of the most famous painting and holds a very close place in my heart because it’s the day and space where God reveals Himself to us, His children, and gives them the knowledge of singularity.

The first thing anyone ever notices in the painting is that God is reaching out with a finger and Man is receiving the reach by reaching out himself. Although the painting holds many secrets, which can be discussed later, this specific contact brings the knowledge of Bapdada in an emerged form.

Many questions arise when one notices this contact, why did God reach out just with a finger? Why didn’t He hug his child?

To begin the series of answers, one can see its not an ordinary reachout, after all its God who is reaching out and so only a touch is enough. But then the touch, the zap has another significance here. The zap translates singularity. God is trying to teach His fallen children after singularity. Singularity means ekagrata. Sticking the mind and intellect in just one thought.

But what is so special about singularity? What is not! At singularity time stops.

The way time is portrayed to us is like ticking clock and that all is we know about time. Because modern science fail to see other aspects of time. When we are asleep, we know that we see many dreams in one night and in each dream, we spend almost a lifetime but each dream only last about 10 minutes. So, what does this mean? Does this mean time is different then what we know about it?

There are two answers to this question –

Firstly, as explained by Baba many times, time is relative. We know from Baba’s knowledge that there are three types of thoughts – positive, negative and neutral and He has mentioned that each one of them have different speed. Meaning a physical hour can include hundreds of hours for a person who is filled with positive thoughts and can fill up the abundant energy from those positive thoughts but on the other side, an hour can mean a minute to the person who is filled with negative thoughts and by the end of that hour he would feel drained. This specifically tells us that time is relative, its faster when we are stuck with negativity and slower when we are inclined towards positive.

But then it has another angle, which is the angle of God

What if we are stuck with just one or none thought? That brings to the second point, where there is no existence of time at all. Time doesn’t exist in Paramdham because there are no thoughts. Even Baba doesn’t have a though there which results in the production of a place which is timeless. When we reach to this second point, its then we experience singularity.

The view from singularity is very beautiful because there you are not seeing each passing moment but the entire movie all together. It might be difficult in the beginning to wrap our brains about it but lets just imaging we have the physical film of a movie, the round black one, in our hand. We do not need to watch the entire movie; we do not need to live through the entire movie to see the scenes of the movie because we have the entire film in our hands.

What this means is more incomprehensible, but we can try. This means that time does not actually exist but is felt through out thoughts and if somehow, we break this bondage of time, we would start experiencing something very different and magnificent.

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Then our consciousness would have the power to link itself to anyone and anything at any given moment and would have the power to influence it. We have many times heard that when Baba is speaking the murli, He is not speaking for just the people in front of Him or present Brahmins but for those too who are yet to come. Meaning, He is not bonded by time. Meaning His consciousness is connected to everyone because He can access any part of the film whenever He like. When we become like Him, when we make an effort to break the bondage of time, I feel we become connected with the entire movie in one go. And by being connected and by even being in one location at one time, we are able to influence what is about to come and what has already passed. The way past events and future has an impact on us, we also have the same impact. But we are unaware. Even if our consciousness is not that developed to witness this impact, that doesn’t mean we are not impacting. We are impacting at all times because there is no time. Each scene in the drama is related to every other scene not in a sequential manner but one on one. But when we put an effort to break the bondage, we start seeing the impact.

This is Soul Consciousness, because Soul is timeless. We often thought that when Baba says Soul is Avinashi, He just meant nothing can destruct the soul, but He probably also meant that the vibrations, impact and existence of the Soul is timeless, that the Soul is always connected to the entire drama.

This is the power of Singularity. At singularity only information exists and nothing else. With this knowledge we can work to bring this concept in an emerged form. As a practice we can do a self-talk that I am bounded by Time; I am connected to everything and everyone at all times; I can use this Avinashi connection to influence people and provide them with what they need even before they started needing it; I am seeing everything as a whole; I am above all the energies created by Baba because I am master almighty.

I think the only key is detachment i.e. Baba.

Thank you, Michelangelo, for constructing such a beautiful piece, it is thought provoking.

Om shanti