He strode in whenever he wished, cool as you please, and this really annoyed Parvati. One day when Shiva was away meditating in the forest, Parvati went into her bathing chamber with a determined little smile on her lips.
Picking up a flat wooden knife she scraped the scented paste off her body and kneaded it into a lump. When it was firm enough, she fashioned the figure of a boy, perfect in every limb.
In the twinkling of an eye, a young boy stood before her, handsome, alive, eyes bright with love. Parvati hugged him. The boy bowed, hands folded. The boy posted himself outside and stood with legs apart, hands folded. Then he came to an abrupt halt. In front of the door, blocking his passage, stood a strange young boy. Move out of my way! But the boy stood right where he was. Lord Ganesha clears the obstacles and paves the way for us to move forward in life.
The large ears signify that a perfect person is the one who possesses a great capacity to listen to others and assimilate ideas. Ganesha being the ruler of the worlds, he possesses large ears to keenly listen to the prayers and needs of all his subjects.
Likewise, the individuals should possess qualities of high adaptability and efficiency in life. This in other words can make them attune to any circumstances of life. The right tusk represents wisdom and the left tusk represents emotion. The broken left tusk conveys the idea that one must conquer emotions with wisdom to attain perfection. Thus it indicates to surrender one's pride and attain humility.
Lord Ganesha represents the pure consciousness - the Atman - which enables these four attributes to function in us. The hand waving an axe is a symbol of the retrenchment of all desires, bearers of pain and suffering. The axe is also to prod man to the path of righteousness and truth.
The second hand holds a whip, symbol of the force that ties the devout person to the eternal beatitude of God. They encounter an elephant and cut off its head and give it to Lord Shiva.
Then, Shankara fixes the head onto the body and gives birth to Ganesha, the elephant-headed god. The evidence is here. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alien Mr. Alien 6, 19 19 gold badges 49 49 silver badges 89 89 bronze badges. Though this answer cite Wikipedia as reference but As per this meta , Wikipedia is not considered reliable source when it itself doesn't cite sources. So, Mentioning the chapter of Shivapurana that contain this story would be useful to have this answer being sourced.
Also, Lord Hayagreeva had an animal head too — The Preserver. There are several Puranic stories about Lord Ganesha and his elephant head. These stories are: Once Parvati, just for fun, prepared an image of a child with an elephant's head, out of the unguents smeared over her body and threw it into the river Ganga.
Hence Lord Ganesha is known as Dvaimatura, 'one who has two mothers'; Parvati prepared the image of a child out of the scurf from her body, endowed him with life and ordered him to stand guard before her house. His captivating splendour made Parvati react angrily and curse him, resulting in the elephant head; and Ganesha was originally Krishna himself in the human form. He gives the following possible meanings of the elephant head: 'Gana' means category.
In effect, it means the origin of the whole creation, God Himself; A common Sanskrit word to denote elephant is 'Gaja'. The elephant head is thus purely symbolical and points to this truth; A factor we observe in creation is its two-fold manifestation as the microcosm Suksmanda and macrocosm Brahmanda.
Kedarnath 4, 12 12 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 67 67 bronze badges. Pradip Gangopadhyay Pradip Gangopadhyay Please 1 cite your sources, and 2 fix your post's formatting.
The Preserver The Preserver 1 1 silver badge 13 13 bronze badges. Welcome to Hinduism Stack Exchange! Blogs are not considered reliable source here. Take a look at FAQ What kind of references are valid in answers? Are modern works allowed? Pandya proper Shastras and scriptures are only in books not on the internet. How should I know that pandya because it should say in the rules when you're answering and most people don't really read the FAQ. Also pandya I do not really think it matters where you cited the evidence because then, you can just read the scriptures on Google or on a book because they also make numerous books about hindu culture.
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