My older daughter pointed out a sculpture of Ganesha who I have always had a fondness for. I haven't in this lifetime really studied Hinduism that much because it always seemed way too complicated for me and I have always been put off by the Caste system in India which has harmed so many people from moving forwards in their lives in the lower castes there.
But, yesterday I realized I needed a sculpture of Genesha. There was one that was Ganesha dancing
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Feb 15, 2017 · Ganesha — the elephant-deity riding a mouse — has become one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism. This not only suggests ...- Ganesha, also spelled Ganesh, also called Ganapati, elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, who is traditionally worshipped before any major enterprise and is the ...
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon, known as the elephant-headed deity. He is usually praised with affection at the start of ...
- Ganesha is a popular figure in Indian art. Unlike those of some deities, representations of Ganesha show wide variations and distinct patterns changing over time. He ...I read how he is the remover of obstacles and the Lord of Success and realized how important he had always been in life.I remember many lifetimes in India between now and the time of Christ and though those lives often were happy and interesting looking back upon them from a life now in America and born in Seattle Washington 3 years after World War II ended I cannot really usefully go back to relive those lives in my mind very deeply without feeling a little confused by the complete differences in how Americans view reality and how Hindus tend to view reality.Today though, I had a deep insight into religions in general.I realized that from Judaism and Buddhism came Christianity.And Buddhism came from HinduismAnd Hinduism came from Shamanism.And this could be said of all religions really that they all came from Shamanism.What Jesus and Buddha had in common was that they both were shamans first.They both fasted and didn't eat food for up to 40 days at a time to meet with and speak with God more clearly.Today in the western world people who do this are often thought crazy.But, are you calling Buddha and Jesus Crazy then?These great teachers are examples for us to follow and not to denegrate through our basic ignorance of what life was like then.We can turn to our social media and technology but none of that existed then at all.Even I growing up only had Television and telephones and nothing else not even VHS video tapes until the early 1980s. So, I spent the first 32 years or more of my life without even VHS tapes or home computers or anything else let alone the Internet that didn't show up until the 1990s for everyone through Yahoo at first and through AOL with telephone dial up at incredibly slow speeds by today's standards.So, people did not have knowledge like we have it today. The best people could do was to travel thousands of miles to meet a Jesus or a Buddha for a few minutes and usually even then it was only for a moment in a crowd of thousands.So, imagine that world for a moment and think how far we all have come.And yet if we think people fasting 40 days with only water and a few grains of rice in their mouths to suck on at best is crazy, then we have completely lost our humanity and understanding for how we all got here in the first place.By God's Grace
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