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font-family:Arial">Ganapati Upanisad (available in Pdf at

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/ftp/ganesh.pdf

and based upon this file)

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font-family:Arial">1. Om Gam (1) I bow to Ganapati.

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font-family:Arial">2. You clearly are the tattvas (2). You alone are the

creator. You alone are

the maintainer. You alone are the

destroyer (3). Of all this you certainly are

Brahman (4). You plainly are the essence.

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font-family:Arial">3. Always I speak amrita (5). The truth I speak.

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font-family:Arial">4. Protect me. Protect the speakers. Protect the hearers.

Protect the givers.

font-family:Arial">Protect the holders. Protect the disciple that repeats.

Protect that in the

east. Protect that in the south. Protect

that in the west. Protect that in the

north. Protect that above. Protect that

below. Everywhere protect! Protect

me everywhere! (6)

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font-family:Arial">5. You are speech. You are consciousness. You are bliss. You

are Brahman.

font-family:Arial">You are being-consciousness-bliss. You are the non-dual. You

are plainly

Brahman. You are knowledge. You are

intelligence.

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font-family:Arial">6. You create all this world. You

maintain all this world. All this

world

is seen in you. You are earth, water,

air, fire, and ether (7). You are beyond

the four measures of speech. You are

beyond the three gunas. You are

beyond the three bodies. You are beyond

the three times. You are always

situated in the muladhara

(8). You are the being of the three Shaktis (9). You

are always meditated on by yogins. You are Brahma, you are Vishnu, you

are Rudra, you are Agni, you are Vayu, you are the sun, you are the

moon, you are Brahma bhur-bhuvah-svar

(10).

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font-family:Arial">7 Ga is the first syllable, after

that the first letter, beyond that M, then

the half-moon all together. Joined with

M, this is the mantra form.

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font-family:Arial">8 The letter ga is the first form,

letter a the middle form, M the last form.

bindu the higher form, nada the joining

together, samhita the junction.

font-family:Arial">This is the vidya of Lord Ganesha.

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font-family:Arial">9 Ganaka is the seer, nricad-gayatri the metre, SrÌ Mahaganapati

the

devata. OM Ganapataye Namah. (11)

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font-family:Arial">10 Let us think of the one-toothed, let us meditate on the

crooked trunk,

may that tusk direct us.(12)

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font-family:Arial">11. One tusk, four arms, carrying noose and goad, with his

hands dispelling

fear and granting boons, with a mouse as

his banner.

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font-family:Arial">12. Red, with a big belly, with ears like winnowing baskets,

wearing red,

with limbs smeared with red scent, truly

worshipped with red flowers.

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font-family:Arial">13. To the devoted a merciful deva,

the maker of the world, the prime

cause, who at the beginning of creation

was greater than nature and man.

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font-family:Arial">14. He who always meditates thus is a yogin

above yogins.

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font-family:Arial">15. Hail to the lord of vows, hail to Ganapati, hail to the

first lord, hail

unto you, to the big-bellied,

one-tusked, obstacle-destroyer, the son of

font-family:Arial">Siva, to the boon-giver, hail, hail!

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font-family:Arial">16. He who studies this atharva

text13 moves towards Brahma. He is

always blissful. He is not bound by any

obstacles. He is liberated from

the five greater and the five lesser sins.

Evening meditation destroys the

unmeritorious actions of the night. At both

evening and morning he is

liberated from the bad and he attains dharma,

artha, kama and moksa

(14).

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font-family:Arial">17. This atharva text should not

be given to those not pupils. If from

delusion a person so gives, he is a bad

person.

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font-family:Arial">18. He who wants something may accomplish it by 1,000

recitations of

this. He who sprinkles Ganapati with

this becomes eloquent. He who

recites this on a fourth day becomes a

knower of vidya. This is an artharva

saying: ‘‘He who moves towards

Brahmavidya is never afraid.’’ He who

worships with fried grains becomes famous

and becomes intelligent. He

who worships with sweet-meat (modaka)

gains the desired fruit. He who

worships with samit

and ghee by him all is attained, all is gained by him.

font-family:Arial">He who makes eight brahmanas

understand this becomes like the sun’s

rays. In a solar eclipse, in a great

river, or in front of an image having

recited (this) he gets accomplished in the

mantra. He becomes liberated

from great obstacles. He is freed from

great misfortunes.

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font-family:Arial">1 The root or bija mantra of the deva.

font-family:Arial">2 In this case the word tattva

means all and everything.

font-family:Arial">3 These are the three gunas in

their triple form.

font-family:Arial">4 The absolute.

5 Literally, the imperishable.

6 Covering every direction.

font-family:Arial">7 The five elements too.

font-family:Arial">8 The base chakra in the human body.

font-family:Arial">9 Of action, will and knowledge.

font-family:Arial">10 The three worlds.

font-family:Arial">11 The extended mantra of the deva.

font-family:Arial">12 This is the deva’s own gayatri mantra to be recited

at the four twilights.

font-family:Arial">13 The atharva is the fourth and

heterodox veda.

font-family:Arial">14 The four aims of mankind: right thinking, acquisition of

wealth, sexuality and

liberation.

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, "Neil Campbell" <pashu@t...> wrote:

> Ganapati Upanisad (available in Pdf at

> http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/ftp/ganesh.pdf and

based

> upon this file)

>

> 1. Om Gam (1) I bow to Ganapati.

>

> 2. You clearly are the tattvas (2). You alone are the creator. You

alone

> are

> the maintainer. You alone are the destroyer (3). Of all this you

> certainly are

> Brahman (4). You plainly are the essence.

>

> 3. Always I speak amrita (5). The truth I speak.

>

> 4. Protect me. Protect the speakers. Protect the hearers. Protect

the

> givers.

> Protect the holders. Protect the disciple that repeats. Protect

that in

> the

> east. Protect that in the south. Protect that in the west. Protect

that

> in the

> north. Protect that above. Protect that below. Everywhere protect!

> Protect

> me everywhere! (6)

>

> 5. You are speech. You are consciousness. You are bliss. You are

> Brahman.

> You are being-consciousness-bliss. You are the non-dual. You are

plainly

> Brahman. You are knowledge. You are intelligence.

>

> 6. You create all this world. You maintain all this world. All this

> world

> is seen in you. You are earth, water, air, fire, and ether (7). You

are

> beyond

> the four measures of speech. You are beyond the three gunas. You are

> beyond the three bodies. You are beyond the three times. You are

always

> situated in the muladhara (8). You are the being of the three

Shaktis

> (9). You

> are always meditated on by yogins. You are Brahma, you are Vishnu,

you

> are Rudra, you are Agni, you are Vayu, you are the sun, you are the

> moon, you are Brahma bhur-bhuvah-svar (10).

>

> 7 Ga is the first syllable, after that the first letter, beyond

that M,

> then

> the half-moon all together. Joined with M, this is the mantra form.

>

> 8 The letter ga is the first form, letter a the middle form, M the

last

> form.

> bindu the higher form, nada the joining together, samhita the

junction.

> This is the vidya of Lord Ganesha.

>

> 9 Ganaka is the seer, nricad-gayatri the metre, Sr?Mahaganapati the

> devata. OM Ganapataye Namah. (11)

>

> 10 Let us think of the one-toothed, let us meditate on the crooked

> trunk,

> may that tusk direct us.(12)

>

> 11. One tusk, four arms, carrying noose and goad, with his hands

> dispelling

> fear and granting boons, with a mouse as his banner.

>

> 12. Red, with a big belly, with ears like winnowing baskets, wearing

> red,

> with limbs smeared with red scent, truly worshipped with red

flowers.

>

> 13. To the devoted a merciful deva, the maker of the world, the

prime

> cause, who at the beginning of creation was greater than nature and

man.

>

> 14. He who always meditates thus is a yogin above yogins.

>

> 15. Hail to the lord of vows, hail to Ganapati, hail to the first

lord,

> hail

> unto you, to the big-bellied, one-tusked, obstacle-destroyer, the

son of

> Siva, to the boon-giver, hail, hail!

>

> 16. He who studies this atharva text13 moves towards Brahma. He is

> always blissful. He is not bound by any obstacles. He is liberated

from

> the five greater and the five lesser sins. Evening meditation

destroys

> the

> unmeritorious actions of the night. At both evening and morning he

is

> liberated from the bad and he attains dharma, artha, kama and moksa

> (14).

>

> 17. This atharva text should not be given to those not pupils. If

from

> delusion a person so gives, he is a bad person.

>

> 18. He who wants something may accomplish it by 1,000 recitations of

> this. He who sprinkles Ganapati with this becomes eloquent. He who

> recites this on a fourth day becomes a knower of vidya. This is an

> artharva

> saying: ``He who moves towards Brahmavidya is never afraid.'' He who

> worships with fried grains becomes famous and becomes intelligent.

He

> who worships with sweet-meat (modaka) gains the desired fruit. He

who

> worships with samit and ghee by him all is attained, all is gained

by

> him.

> He who makes eight brahmanas understand this becomes like the sun's

> rays. In a solar eclipse, in a great river, or in front of an image

> having

> recited (this) he gets accomplished in the mantra. He becomes

liberated

> from great obstacles. He is freed from great misfortunes.

>

>

> 1 The root or bija mantra of the deva.

> 2 In this case the word tattva means all and everything.

> 3 These are the three gunas in their triple form.

> 4 The absolute.

> 5 Literally, the imperishable.

> 6 Covering every direction.

> 7 The five elements too.

> 8 The base chakra in the human body.

> 9 Of action, will and knowledge.

> 10 The three worlds.

> 11 The extended mantra of the deva.

> 12 This is the deva's own gayatri mantra to be recited at the four

> twilights.

> 13 The atharva is the fourth and heterodox veda.

> 14 The four aims of mankind: right thinking, acquisition of wealth,

> sexuality and

> liberation.

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