Varasiddhi Vinayaka at Jayanagar 4th Block

Varasiddhi Vinayaka at Jayanagar 4th Block
Originally uploaded by shastrix.

Oh, the decorations they do at this temple! Just love them.

Chinnadevaru is my role model for a priest and the temple seems to be getting popular by the day.

Ganesha Goes Coco

Ganesha Goes Coco
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The other evening, I was doing my long loop around Palm Meadows when I saw this on the sidewalk off 415, Phase Two, one of the houses in the "Coconut Grove" area of Palm Meadows.

Thought it was a Ganesha stone. When I picked it up, it was so light that I realized that it was a small coconut that became a Ganesha, right down to the placement of the eye!

To quote Sri Ramakrishna yet again:

The cockroach becomes motionless by constantly meditating on the kumira worm; it loses the power to move. At last it is transformed into a kumira. Similarly, by constantly meditating on God the bhakta loses his ego; he realizes that God is he and he is God. When the cockroach becomes the kumira everything is achieved. Instantly one obtains liberation.