Ganapati

<p><b>Presents a wide range of information about Ganapati or Ganesh the Hindu Lord of Beginnings the Remover of Obstacles the Keeper of the Threshold and the Master of the Mind. He is elephant-headed plump and loveable but who is he really?</b></p><p>Ganapati is the Hindu Lord of Beginnings the Keeper of the Threshold the Remover of Obstacles Master of the Mind Son of Siva Elephant-headed plump and loveable. This book offers a wide range of information about Ganapati gathered from such diverse sources as hymns poems myths shrines practices and theologies. It considers Ganapati's complexity: his transcendence of sectarian and territorial limits his delayed but dramatic development into the religious pantheon his paradoxical mythology and his physical manifestation an elephant's head on a human body.</p><p>Ganapati: Song of the Self fosters an understanding from within a tradition. It presents a positive interpretation of the material and encourages an inner quest for spiritual truth.</p>