There is a painting in Angkor Vat depicting ShrI Vyasadeva seen dictating the epic
Mahabharat to his scribe Ganapati, The common belief is that Sri Krishna dvaipayana Vyasa deva dictated the Mahabharata to his scribe Ganadhipati who wrote it down with one of his broken tooth (ekadanta). But actually, both Krishna dvaipayana and Ganapati are one only. The seer and the seen are one. The perceiver and the perceived are one.kavinaam kavih Ganapti wrote this text on the tablet of our heart and only we have to open to see it! So, where is the Gita? It is within us since the Veda says, Atmaivedgm sarvam | At,ma knows all !
The Prayer to Lord of the Elements (our physical body) Ganapati is:
गणानाम् त्वा गणपतिम् हवामहे कविम्
कवीनाम् उपमश्रवस्तमम्।
ज्येष्टराजम् ब्रह्मणाम्
ब्रह्मणस्पत आ
न ऊतिभिः
सीद सादनम्॥ (रुग्वेद २.
२३. १)
Om
| gaNAnAM tvA gaNapatiM havAmahe kavim kavInAm upamashravastamam |
jyeShTarAjaM brahmaNAm brahmaNaspatAnaH
UtiBiH sIdasAdanam ||
(Rk Veda 2. 23. 1).
The BagavadgItA is supposed to be an episode- bhIShma parva, in the
great epic mahAbhArata written(?) by Lord gaNeSa (gaNa
adhipati, Isa) as dictated by Sage vedavyAsa on the advice of nArada. Sages are jnani
who do not speak! This is the prevailing knowledge among the common people.
But, it may be clarified here the fact that there is no nArada, vedavyAsa
or a gaNapati or the mahAbhArata unless we create one for our
convenience. Let’s realize the fact that there are no literary evidences or
proof for all the ‘God-spoken Words’ although some such pramaNa,
proof, or sources quoted, etc. are available; this proof according to the vaiShNava
saMpradAya is also provided here for reference. In fact, everything that we
find today as ancient scriptures is that which is written by somebody; and,
God’s words are shrutivAkya, the ‘heard voice, and not the written documents.
In fact, everything is human’s intelligence and creative power only expressed
by some divine attained souls. It should also be remembered that these are
highly abstract, inexplicable, and somehow find expression in the extraordinary
attained persons. Even the persons as physical entities are not important here;
it is their intelligence, spiritual attainment, level of Consciousness that is
important. So when we say, a bhrugumuni, or a narada and vishvamitra, it only
means the height of their spiritual attainment and not the persons. Normally,
these Sages have left behind all their prefixes, affixes, and appendages of
family, tradition, names, forms and functions. They are in a state of brahm when
they attain their highest! It is only at this level that a sadhaka can
understand what they spell out in exalted state of pure Consciousness. Not all
can understand the words of bhagavan unless he/she tries to attain this state
like sages and saints such as aruNi uddalaka, yajnyAvalkya, or maitrayaNi.
Thus, the phrases- ‘Thus spake the Lord’ (bhagavan uvaca) or ‘God-spoken
word’ mean revealed or intutional knowledge’, may be, revelations getting
from the inner ‘Self’. It is our intelligence, creative genius for which there
is a ‘divine source’. But for this divine origin there is no explanation for
our existence here. We are on a chosen planet where life is a form of vibrant Energy,
derived from the electromagnetic wavicles derived from the Sun. Everything here
is Energy, Waves and Vibration. Our thoughts, ideas, imagination create a world
of varied and diverse objects which have no substantial existence of their own.
The tanmatra of Agni is rupam. Thus, ‘Forms are created by the
vibrant Energy’. Everything is a passing phase of our own experience due to our
focused attention. If we do not look at anything with intent, ineterst, that
thing simply does not exist. All our friends, wife and children, homes are our
own creation- a creation of a thought-particle of our Mind! Unless one says
‘yes’- a product of our Mind, there will be no further creation! These are
given a valid, rational explanation in the veda, upanishat, brahmasutra, and
the gItA.
Let’s remember the fact that “not
only the Planet Earth, but the humans on it, as well, are an insignificant miniscule,
vibrant energy, sub-atomic particle, in the Galaxy”. As a jiva, human existence
on earth is so short as compared to the eons or yugas that pass by, as that of
the time taken by a wink (nemiSha) of the Lord. Within a short time span
of a few decades of a person’s life, what can be understood, experienced or
realized is open to question. Moreover, everything that man knows is only
through a second-hand source, of course with an exception that some are
revelations of a few divine souls!
Thus, what we see and understand here is
open to question! As regards, the author of the gItA, the versatile
genius vEda vyAsa dictating, and his scribe gaNapati taking down the notes,
that too, with a broken tusk, it may be said, nothing is so stupid for a
rational and scientific inquisitive mind than a flower blooming in the sky (gagana kusuma) or a fish with a strong
horn!. But, it is everything- a fantasy, an imaginative story, a celestial
song, a sermon, or a beautiful fiction for a curious and inquisitive mind full
of innocence,” What is said about gaNapati cannot be simply dismissed as just a
mythologic story for children. There is a lot of secret spiritual power hidden
in it. There is a ‘vANcCA kalpalata SrIvidya gaNapati’ clad in a
saree shown as the ‘Deity of SrIvidyA’, and a mahAmaMtra is also attached to it.
It is a serious tantropAsana scripture retrieved from yajurveda recently
discovered and published by Sri Amritananda (H.S.Thyagaraj) at the Trayinyas
SrIvidya Foundation in Mysore. It reveals these secrets. A serious upasaka has
to take to upasana of this Deity and experience that divine power. All that one
desires will be fulfilled and this includes Atmajnyan and salvation, moksha..
Mythologically speaking, Lord gaNesh is the creation of devi pArvati, the product of
a brain-wave- that a human form is created out of clay and prANa is
infused into it. As the story goes, Siva’s consort devi pArvati in kailAs
made an earthen doll, infused life into it, and asked it to guard the place
with strict instruction not to allow anybody inside. Siva came and saw that his
entrance is blocked. He got angry, fight ensued since gaNesh refused to allow
Siva inside, and finally the guard gaNeSa was beheaded by the furious Lord.
Thus, the guard lost his head. Later, pArvati told Siva all about gaNeSa and wanted
that gaNesh be revived; thus, servants were sent to fetch the head of anybody
sleeping with head northward so that it can be transplanted. Only a baby
elephant was sleeping that way and it was beheaded and its head was brought and
transplanted! Thus, the head of an elephant came to gaNesh, the ‘Deity of the Gana’
of the Earth. Lord gaNapati is muladhara adhipati, pure Consciousness at
the basal plexus, In fact, most of the
gods and goddesses are depicted in the epics as features with heads of animals
and birds! It may be symbolic, or may be, it is the state of evolution where
such and such specie of an animal or bird, or even plants, have reached their
highest level of Consciousness.
Now, as the story continues, gaNesh lost one of his tusks either in a
fight with Nandi, the official carrier of Shiva or, may be, gaNesha himself cut
it and threw at the Moon laughing at his unique form of appearance riding a rat!
Also, may be, the pen failed while writing the epic mahAbhArat and he cut his
tusk to continue his writing. Thus, all these are childish speculations, but
not without substance. As already stated, the spiritual scriptures including
the veda, SrIvidyA, bhagavad-gItA are full of symbols, imageries, code words
and full of estoric meaning that cannot be easily deciphered except in a
transcendental state attained with the help of practice of yoga (yogasadhana).
But, it may be aked, “What about the status of
the gItA amongst the various spiritual Texts?” At the outset, the Bagavad-gItA
believed tobe taken out from the great epic, as an episode of Bhishma Parva by
Sri Shankaracharya is not actually a part of the epic mahAbhArata. It is just
interpolated by vedavyas when he was finding short of topic to dictate to
Ganesha (gaNeSa). Actualllas these
are ‘divine words’- the ‘Words of God’; first, BagavAn
shrI Shree Krishna revealed this Atmadnyan
as the ‘gItopadeSa’ to the sureya, the first self-effulgent manu, vivasvAn, the Father of
Mankind, Aditya, and the same Gitopadesha was imparted to
all the subsequent svayaMbhu manu- the first manifest form of Mahavishnu,
Father of Man, the ‘man’ (Mind), citta, or AkAsha- that which holds everything as the
Space, sky. The Mind and Akash are same and AkAsha is called ‘KaM brahma’, the immeasurable
vast and deep non-entity that holds all!
Thus, the gItA emerged in the form of ‘divine
thoughts’ or secret of the secrets (guhyatama guhya) imparted by the
‘Lord of the Luminous Mind’ at the beginning of each cycle of creation and
dissolution- a cosmic drama. It has come down to us (as an unwritten word of
breath of Lord Siva, Shree Krishna, or apourusheya, emerging within us)
as a spiritual heritage!
The celebrated author
of the sacred Text is stated to be Shree
Krishna dvaipAyana. He is the supreme Lord, the omniscient SrI hari nArAyaNa,
also called
acyuta bAadarAyaNa. He is also known as
‘vedavvyAsa’. munInamyapahaM vyasaH | [10.
37]. He is the Self and sits in the
cavity of the heart as antaryamin. He is seen here
with the Lord of the universe, gaNapati-
the Deity of Muladhara who dwells in the basal plexus of Consciousness. The
Rkveda saMhita is actually a
soliloquy, a monologue. It is, as if, a dialogue between pure Consciousness and
the vibrating Mind, its moods and attitudes. May be, gaNapati,* as an
elemental god, is a myth indicating the transient nature of existence. That
way, the most Revered Omniscient Sage vedavyAsa**, the renown author of the brahmasutra
and all the puraNa- shruti and smruti,
is none other than SrIman
nArAyaNa,
the parabrahmn from whom the
sovereign Consciousness radiates as an eternal flow of “sat-cit-anand”.
The Rkveda saMhita locates Ganapatim at the mulAdhAra, the basal plexus
of Consciousness and it is He, the gaNapati who writes the Rks with his
tusk (danta) in our heart. He is the Revered
Deity of our ‘Basal Plexus’ (mulAdhAra-pradnya) and it is He, who wards
off all evil and keeps us safe and secure with all our senses.
Hence, it cannot be said to be the notions of an intelligent brain
working on the search for ‘sat’, the ‘essential nature’ of human existence.
This power of Creation, the Intelligence is Shree Krishna (See vibhuti yoga).
The Rishis have had this darshan and revealed this Truth. However, it may be
also said that ‘everything is born out of Mind (the manas)’ and, thus a product
of wild imagination, thoughts, ideas, and forms. Although the gItA says, the
Rishis like nArada, devala, asita, and vyAsa are the manifest forms of brahma,
actually, there are no such things as vedavyAsa, gaNapati, or Shree
Krishna here! Everything is brahmn only. sarvaM KhaluvidaM brahma
and ‘brahmn’ is the central idea and the goal of the teachings of the gItA
is to attain to IT. The gItA
is narrated by the inner voice attributed to ‘pure consciousness’ -Shree
Krishna. It is an intellectually and intuitionally revealed Knowledge, druShTa,
that emanates from within.
