Shantanu
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Sri Krishna does not ask to be worshipped so please quote the scripture that says this and give us the date of its production.
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Maya3
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ratikala
Istha gosthi
namaskaram Maya ji
I like your story and I can well beleive it , ....many many times when I am making garlands and I canot thread the needle I juat have to remember to chant Radhe Radhe , ...works every time
I like your story and I can well beleive it , ....many many times when I am making garlands and I canot thread the needle I juat have to remember to chant Radhe Radhe , ...works every time
ratikala
Istha gosthi
namaskaram H♥K ji
I will ask him but he will want sweets ......I will give him sweets
You prayed and it worked. Wonderfu! Now tell him to grant my some small hopes
I will ask him but he will want sweets
......I will give him sweets 
Indeed, and thank you so much for sharing it. I do hope many of us can continue to share our uplifting stories despite 'this intellectual dross'.
A few years back a nice young couple from a city about an hour away came to our temple on a night when I 'just happened' to be there. (Timing is one of His other specialties.) The young woman had always just wanted to come investigate, so she did. They returned a couple of times within a couple of months. But then, as with many curiosity seekers, I thought I'd heard the last of them. But then this week I get an email that they're coming back 'to pay respects' and bringing a couple of more friends. It seems He dances in spurts.
Jai Sri Ganesha!
Maya3
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namaskaram H♥K ji
I will ask him but he will want sweets
Wow, wow thank you for reminding me. I cannot believe that I did not even put this together. I have a little traveling Ganesha that always goes on trips with us. As we were in Florida someone came by and took down the coconuts. I had never had fresh coconuts so I asked if we could have one.
I immediately thought of letting Ganesha have some.
The coconut was HUGE and my Ganesha statue is tiny, but I put it in front of him for about an hour or so.
I didn´t even think of this until now. Wow. Now I want to do a real puja at my altar later, with both travel Ganesha and my "regular" stationary Ganesha.
Vinayaka,
That is so nice to hear. Glad that they are coming back to the temple.
Maya
ratikala
Istha gosthi
I have a very tiny Ganesha and I mean he is very very small but I doubt that would stop him devouring a whole mountain of coconuts , ...now he has heard that you give coconuts will be demanding them , we also have a rather fat little alter Ganesha who is the one who usualy gets the sweets , ....I am making sweets tonight so will offer for all here , ...please no obsticals Physical or Spiritual for all my Dharma freinds , ....
ratikala
Istha gosthi
namaskaram shantanu ji
better that we ask how have we become seperated from God ?
You canot ask where Gods have come from because they are manifestations of the eternal and all pervasive supreme , ....
just ask Oh my dear lord why can I not see you ?
Ok I will offer more sweets for you and ask Ganesha to appear in your dreams and remove all obsticals to your seeing and knowing
better that we ask how have we become seperated from God ?
You canot ask where Gods have come from because they are manifestations of the eternal and all pervasive supreme , ....
just ask Oh my dear lord why can I not see you ?
Ok I will offer more sweets for you and ask Ganesha to appear in your dreams and remove all obsticals to your seeing and knowing
ratikala
Istha gosthi
namaskaram prabhu ji's
realy sweets and cakes being made here at this very moment , and am dancing around the kitchen , ....
singing ....
please everybody sing , ....then cakes taste better , Consciousness goes into the food ,
Can Consciousness go into food ??? Oh no this is not a question for debate .....deities will tell you by smile on their faces
realy sweets and cakes being made here at this very moment , and am dancing around the kitchen , ....
singing ....
please everybody sing , ....then cakes taste better , Consciousness goes into the food ,
Can Consciousness go into food ??? Oh no this is not a question for debate
.....deities will tell you by smile on their faces 
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Brahmanaspati, Brhaspati, Angirasa, friend of Indra, Twastar brought him to life. But I will let it pass. I bow to the Vighna-harta, Ganadhyaksha Ganapati Ganesha.
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 2: HYMN XXIII. Brahmaṇaspati.
Brahmanaspti is Vinayaka. Ganesha is mentioned in Upanishada-s /Purana-s as Brahmanaspati..Brahmanaspati, Brhaspati, Angirasa, friend of Indra, Twastar brought him to life. But I will let it pass. I bow to the Vighna-harta, Ganadhyaksha Ganapati Ganesha.
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 2: HYMN XXIII. Brahmaṇaspati.
Rig Veda 10.112.9 Ni shhu sida ganapate ganeshhu tvamahurvipratamam kavinam | na rite tvath kriyate kinchanare mahamarkam maghavanh chitramarcha || 'Sit down among the worshipers, O Ganapati, the best sage among the sages. Without You nothing can be done here or far. Accept with honor, O wealthy One, our great and variegated hymns of praise.' Mahanarayana Upanishad I.24 and Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.1.5 of the Krsna Yajurveda. Aum tatpuruṣāya vidmahe | vakratuṇḍāya dhīmahi | tanno dantiḥ pracodayāt || 'Aum! May we know that divine Person, And meditate upon Him with a curved trunk, May the tusked One guide us on the right path.' Krsna Yajurveda - Maitrayani Samhita 2.9.1 Aum tatpuruṣāya vidmahe | hastimukhāya dhīmahi | tanno dantiḥ pracodayāt || 'Aum! May we know that divine Person, And meditate upon Him with an elephant visage, May the tusked One guide us on the right path.'
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
नि षु सीद गणपते गणेषु तवामाहुर्विप्रतमंकवीनाम | न रते तवत करियते किं चनारे महामर्कंमघवञ्चित्रमर्च ll
Rig Veda 10.112.9 is dedicated to Indra Maghavan.This is scholastic sleight-of-hand. The fact is that Ganesha is not a RigVedic deity, he is indigenous. So, he would not be mentioned in RigVeda. And there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with the RigVedic deities either. There is no need for impersonation. RigVedic or indigenous, they all are ours. Metta.
Rig Veda 10.112.9 is dedicated to Indra Maghavan.This is scholastic sleight-of-hand. The fact is that Ganesha is not a RigVedic deity, he is indigenous. So, he would not be mentioned in RigVeda. And there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with the RigVedic deities either. There is no need for impersonation. RigVedic or indigenous, they all are ours. Metta.
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Shantanu
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Does this not indicate that in the Rig Veda a sage by the name of Ganapati/ganesha is mentioned so it was not referring to as a god but a human being of that name. Subsequently, in the Upanishads the Brahmanists manipulated the name of the sage to give him an elephant-headed persona and started treating this figure as a god which was subsequently elevated into the status of the Supreme God residing on the muladhara chakra and governing even dharma?
Wow, wow thank you for reminding me. I cannot believe that I did not even put this together. I have a little traveling Ganesha that always goes on trips with us. As we were in Florida someone came by and took down the coconuts. I had never had fresh coconuts so I asked if we could have one.
I immediately thought of letting Ganesha have some.
The coconut was HUGE and my Ganesha statue is tiny, but I put it in front of him for about an hour or so.
I didn´t even think of this until now. Wow. Now I want to do a real puja at my altar later, with both travel Ganesha and my "regular" stationary Ganesha.
Vinayaka,
That is so nice to hear. Glad that they are coming back to the temple.
Maya
I'm so sorry your thread got derailed by the intellectual mind. Bhakti and the intellect are often at odds it seems. "Sorry but I don't want to discuss it, I just want to enjoy it."
So anyways ... here (in northern Canada of all places) we can buy young coconuts in the main larger supermarkets. They get offered and used for abhishekham at the temples. While travelling in India we used to stop at the roadside stands a couple times a day for a fresh one. Yes, they're heavy. Heavy enough to kill a person when they drop from trees.
Aum
That is a beautiful Ganesha. Give him a colored background as well.
Yeah, that's a good idea
If I swing by a Hindu temple sometime soon I'll try to get some inspiration. Only puja I've been to was in a temple to Murugan, so a bit of sibling rivalry there.