Ganesha was created by Shakti when, ‘she anointed herself with turmeric and oil. If we don’t want to decode, it’s perfectly alright the image of Ganesha will continue to enrich us.’Īnd so it does with the story of his creation. ‘Through him, they are trying to communicate a profound truth – so the answers are right there in front of us in the form of Ganesha, if we are willing to decode it. ‘The image of Ganesha, his rituals and his stories are a kind of mythological puzzle created by our ancestors,’ writes Pattanaik. He’s started with a puzzle about Ganesha’s existence you may not have known about. That’s what Devdutt Pattanaik, who writes on myth and mythology, brings alive to us in his latest book, 99 Thoughts on Ganesha. Wherever there is Ganesha, there have to be symbols, temples, rituals, lots of sweets to eat, and last if not the least, lots of mischief. Where Ganesha, the Elephant God is, there has got to be a story not one but many.
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