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Lord Ganesha parents names are : Lord Shiva and Goddess Sri Parvati Devi. | Lord Ganesha sibling (brother) name is : Lord Kartikeya (Skanda). | Lord Ganesh abode is : Mount Kailash (with parents) and Svānandaloka. | Lord Ganesha mantra is : Oṃ Shri Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ | Oṃ Gaṃ Gaṇapataye Namaḥ.
Lord Ganesha weapons names are : Parashu (axe), Pāsha (noose), Aṅkusha (elephant goad). | Lord Ganesha Texts are : Ganesha Purana, Mudgala Purana, Ganapati Atharvashirsa. | Lord Ganesh festivals are : Ganesh Chaturthi, Ganesh Jayanti. | Lord Ganesh consort names : Buddhi, Riddhi and Siddhi or celibate in some traditions.
The story of Ganesha is confusing because TV serials and movies do not show the real and correct story of Ganesha’s birth. In this post (article) you will get right, real and correct information about Lord Ganesha’s birth story taking examples from different Puranas.
Lord Ganesha birth as per Skanda Purana : As per Skanda Purana (it is considered as a ‘Tamasa Purana’), Goddess Sri Parvati got Lord Ganesha out of her body’s mud. But here we should understand the correct and real meaning of this story and we must not take the story as it is, as it gives a wrong image of Goddess Sri Parvati Devi.
As per Skanda Purana, when Goddess Sri Parvati Devi made the rachana / creation of Lord Ganesha out of her body’s clay, does it mean that she had lot of clay / mud on her body?
How much of clay / mud can come to her body? These are the few questions which appears mind in the mind of today’s liberals.
Let us go little back: When Goddess Sri Parvati Devi was born as “Goddess Sri Sati Devi”, that is, the daughter of Daksha Prajapati (Thus Goddess Sri Sati Devi is also called as Dakshayani), she had created agni / fire out of her body and entered fire. So this means her body was full of agni / fire.
No right? Similarly, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi took out small portion of ‘Prithvi amsha’ (prithvi ansh) (earth element), that is, clay / mud out of her body. Goddess Sri Parvati Devi herself cannot create a son.
Goddess Sri Parvati Devi cannot by herself can give birth to a child alone without the support of her sangati / partner. A Woman without the support and anugraham (blessings) of her partner / Purusha, cannot produce a child and such things are not found anywhere.
We must understand that Goddess Sri Parvati Devi created Lord Ganesha only out of the grace, that is, anugraham / blessings and support of her husband Lord Shiva, but not on her own power.
Ultimately it was the wish of the Supreme Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu. Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu wanted to give a Devata (Demigod), to whom the first pooja / worship to be done. Thus, with the wish of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi using the clay / mud gave birth to Lord Ganesha.
Lord Ganesha birth as per Brahma Vaivarta Purana: As per Brahma Vaivarta Purana (it is considered as a ‘Raajasa Purana’). As per this Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi was wanting to have son.
Thus, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi did the tapas / penance for Supreme Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu. After some while, Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu blessed her to beget a son as per her wish.
Once when both Lord Shiva and Goddess Sri Parvati Devi were in the intimate position, few Rishis / Sages came to meet the couple and wished to get bhiksha (alms) from them. Because of this, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi left Lord Shiva in the middle of their intimacy, so that she can arrange for the bhiksha (alms).
Thus, in the meantime the veerya (semen) of Lord Shiva which had to be deposited inside Goddess Sri Parvati Devi fell on the ground. With this veerya (semen), a handsome and beautiful son was born to Lord Shiva and Goddess Sri Parvati Devi.
The same son was none other than Lord Ganesha. Thus we should familiarize that, Lord Ganesha was born with the anugraham / blessings of Lord Shiva himself.
NOTE: We should note that both the Puranas were written by Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa. The difference is because, Skanda Purana story is a ‘Tamasa story’. [Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa is an avatar of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu.)
This is a ‘mohaka-prada katha’, that is, to produce hallucination in the asura / demonic type of people, this Skanda Purana’s story was written by Lord (Sage) Sri Vedavyasa.
Story about “How did Lord Ganesha got the head of an elephant” is as given below:
Here also there are two versions of the story. What does the Skanda Purana say about the Lord Ganesha’s elephant head. This is very famous story and most of you must be aware of:
Once Goddess Sri Parvati Devi went to take bath and and made (produced) Lord Ganesh using the clay / mud and informed him to safeguard as a security at the main gate of the Goddess Sri Parvati Devi’s house.
At that very moment Lord Shiva who was thirsty comes to house where Lord Ganesha was safeguarding the gate of the house. Seeing Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha stopped Lord Shiva. After lots of discussions, Lord Shiva looses his temper and out of anger, removes the head of Lord Ganesha.
Thus, after Goddess Sri Parvati Devi comes out and she sees the dead body of her beloved son and begged Lord Shiva to give life to him immediately.
Lord Shiva in turn, then realizes that Lord Ganesha was his own son, and orders his Ganas (servants of Lord Shiva) to bring the head of anyone who is lying with the head towards north direction.
The Ganas (servants of Lord Shiva) saw no one sleeping with head towards North and at the end found an elephant sleeping towards north direction. Thus those Ganas (servants of Lord Shiva) cut off the head of that elephant and gives it to Lord Shiva.
Soon Lord Shiva places the elephant head on the body of Lord Ganesha and brings back to Lord Ganesha to life again. This is the story which many of you know. Usually, you would have seen on the television and movies also.
Now, what does the Brahma Vaivarta Purana say about the Lord Ganesha’s elephant head story is as given below:
As per the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, the story is completely different: As per the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Lord Ganesha was very beautiful and handsome child. All the Devatas / Demigods and Rishis wanted to have his a darshanam (a divine glimpse) of Lord Ganesha.
Everybody came to Lord Shiva home land, that is, Mount Kailash (Kailasa) to have a darshanam (a divine glimpse) of Lord Ganesha and were praising the Lord Ganesha. Goddess Sri Parvati Devi was very much happy as she had given birth to a beautiful and handsome son.
After many Devatas (Demigods) came to see Lord Ganesha, similarly Lord Shanaischara (Lord Shani Deva), also comes to see Lord Ganesha, but Lord Shani Deva was little hesitating to see Lord Ganesha and thus was sitting outside.
Goddess Sri Parvati Devi realizing this, asked Lord Sri Shani Deva to come inside and have the darshanam (a divine glimpse) of Lord Ganesha. Lord Shani Deva told Goddess Sri Parvati Devi, that, he is having a curse from his wife that, if he sees anybody directly his head would be cut off.
(Note : The story of this is that, once Lord Sri Shani Deva was doing Dhyanam / meditating of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu. At that time very time his wife ‘Māndā or Dhāminī’, the daughter of Chitraratha, came in front of him.)
(But, Lord Sri Shani Deva who was in dhyanam / meditation of Lord Sri Vishnu did not see her at all. Thus ‘Māndā or Dhāminī’ cursed Lord Sri Shani Deva that whoever Lord Sri Shani Deva sees directly would get his head cut off immediately).
This was the story of Lord Sri Shani Deva and his wife Māndā or Dhāminī. One the other hand, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi compels Lord Sri Shani Devi to have a darshanam (a glimpse) of her beautiful and handsome son Lord Ganesha.
Thus, after a long compellation, Lord Shani Deva agrees to see Lord Ganesha. As soon as Lord Shani sees Lord Ganesha directly, Lord Ganesha’s head gets cuts off from his body.
Thus, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi now repents for having forced Lord Sri Shani Deva to see his beautiful and handsome son and she starts to cry. This is the original story as per the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, on how Lord Ganesha looses his head.
The great Vaishnava saint who is the avatar of Lord Sri Vayu Deva, that is, Sri Madhvacharya Ji in his ‘Maandookopanishat Bhashya’ has given explanation about how Lord Ganesha got the elephant’s head.
As per Sri Madhvacharya Ji, Lord Ganesha is the aradhaka (worshipper) of Bhagavan Vishva (विश्व) (viśva) and Taijasa (तैजस) (taijasa) forms of the Supreme Lord Sri Vishnu.
Both (that is, Vishva and Taijasa forms) are Jagrat and Svapnavasta niyamaka roopas / forms – i.e., Vishvambhara roopa. (Same form which Bhagavan Lord Sri Krishna shows to Arjuna during the Bhagavad Gita teachings before the start of the great Mahabharata or Kuruskshetra war.)
This form of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu has 19 heads in total. The Central head is of Gajamukha (Gajamukha – Gaja = elephant, mukha = head), whereas the other 18 faces are human faces.
Lord Ganesha was doing the chintana (meditating or thinking) of that “Vishvambara roopa” (form) of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu. Since Lord Ganesha was meditation or thinking of the Gajamukha (elephant’s head) of Lord Sri Vishnu, Lord Ganesha got the Gajamukha (elephant’s head) head.
(Note : We should always remember that, what we think in our mind, so will Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu will give us the blessings as per our mindful thought.)
(If we think Bhagavan Lord Sri Krishna or Lord Sri Rama is an ordinary human, we will be very ordinary human. And if we think Lord Sri Krishna or Lord Sri Rama are svayam Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu, we will get the blessings as per our bhakti / devotion.)
Thus, Goddess Sri Parvati Devi prayed Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu who immediately rushed there. Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu went and removed the head of an elephant which was sleeping it’s head facing towards North and placed on the body of Lord Ganesha. Thus Lord Ganesha got the elephant head.
Now naturally we will get a question in our mind that “Why Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu brought the head of an elephant and placed it on Lord Ganesha and not of any other animal or humans:
Now let us get the clarification on this as per the Brahma Vaivarta Purana: Once the great Rishi Durvasa (He is an avatar of Lord Shiva) gave the ‘Nirmaalya / निर्माल्य’ (remains of an offering to a deity – here of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu) of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu to Lord Sri Indra Deva.
Lord Sri Indra Deva in turn put that ‘Nirmaalya / निर्माल्य’ on the head of an elephant, but this elephant threw it and touched with its legs.
Since that elephant had neglected ‘Nirmaalya / निर्माल्य’ (remains of an offering to a deity – here of Bhagavan Sri Maha Vishnu) of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu, Lord Sri Indra Deva got so many problems and he had to loose his ‘Indra-Padavi’ (loosing the power of being the king of Swarka Loka / Heaven) also.
After Samudra Manthan (churning of ocean) and after getting ‘Amrita’ (ambrosia), Lord Sri Indra Deva got back his power.
Now the point to be noted here is that particular elephant which touched the ‘Nirmaalya / निर्माल्य’ (remains of an offering to a deity – here of Bhagavan Sri Maha Vishnu) of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu with its legs got the sin.
Thus, that elephant had to be punished. Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu removed the head of that particular elephant as a punishment and attached it to Lord Ganesha.
Here we should also note that, since that particular elephant was lucky to have the sparsha (touch) of ‘Hari-Naivedita Nirmalya’ (Naivedya food of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu) and as such, that particular elephant’s head could become the head of Lord Ganesha.
This is the original story as per the Brahma Vaivartha Purana.
(Note : We should always keep in mind that, Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu will always be keeping a watch on everyone. If we do good Karmas, we will get the good fruits. Similarly, if we do bad Karmas, we will definitely get the fruits as per our Karmas. “Jaise karni, vaise bharni”).
Namakaranam (Namkaran) (Naming ceremony) of Lord Ganesha : Goddess Sri Parvati Devi requested Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu to name her child. Thus Bhagavan Sri Maha Vishnu himself gave auspicious 8 names.
Lord Ganesha 8 auspicious names as suggested by Lord Sri Vishnu are as given below with it’s English meaning:
Vignesha (विघ्नेश) – He is the someone who is the pariharaka / remover of all obstacles. | Ganesha (गणेश) – He is the head of all the Ganas (servants of Lord Shiva) including Nandi and Bhrungi. |
Heramba (हेरंब) – He fought with Lord Shiva. | Gajanana (गजानन) – He has the head of an elephant (also known as Gajamukha). | Lambodara (लम्बोदर) – He has big fat udara / stomach. |
Shoorpakarna (शूर्पकरण) – He has broad ears. | Vinayaka (विनायक) – He is always immersed in the dhyana / meditation of Bhagavan Lord Sri Vishnu. | Ekadanta (एकदन्त) – He has one tusk. |
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