Ganesha: Mooshika: Please help: Advise

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Om Guru Krishna;

I am very interested in Mooshika or Musika, the Rat familiar or

mount of Sri Ganapati deva. In a perfect universe, I would be able to

find these things:

(1)Vedic mantra (hypothetically: om namo...etc.);

(2) Tantrika Bijas (hypothetically Aum, Srim, etc.);

(3) Yantras for Mushika;

(4) Gayatri for Musika;

(5) Vedic and Puranica stories of Musika with verses supplied.

If you have the means for Musika meditation, I desire to see

these things. Please kindly assist.

Om santi, santi, santih!!

Robb

<<robb7thurston>

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How the Mouse Became Ganesha's Vehicle.

 

---- how does such a big elephant-headed he-man manage to ride around on top of

a tiny mouse? It doesn't make sense, and it seems absurd -- surely the mouse

would be crushed to death, if it really was Ganesha's vehicle? I know that

Ganesha is a mystical being who can perform miracles, but the idea of having a

mouse depicted as Ganesha's vehicle has always struck me as odd. Frankly, it

didn't sell. To help resolve my cynicism on this issue, I recently turned to the

Holy Ganeshapurana for Insight on the Mouse Question. It turns out that

Ganesha's Mouse was actually a god in his own right at one time -- his name was

Kroncha. Kroncha had the misfortune once, at the assembly of Lord Indra, of

stepping on the toes of one Muni Vamadeva, another god. Thinking that Kroncha

had done so intentionally, Muni Vamadeva grew enraged. In his wrath M.V. said:

" Kroncha! I curse you to become a mouse! "

 

---- Kroncha Becomes Rodent.

TERRIFIED, KRONCHA FELL TO HIS KNEES AND PLEADED FOR MERCY. This subdued M.V.'s

anger -- to an extent. He said: " All right. Kroncha, you will become a vehicle

of Lord Ganesha, and this will bring an end to your sufferings. " And so it was.

Kroncha, transformed into a mouse by the curse of M.V., fell into the hermitage

of Maharshi Parashar.

 

GANESHA STEPS IN ---- How to Tame a Mountain Sized Mouse. TO UNDERSTAND THIS

STORY, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT KRONCHA IN HIS NEW ANIMAL FORM WAS NO

ORDINARY MOUSE -- in fact, he was as big as a mountain and frightening to all

who beheld him. He caused no end of trouble and destroyed everything in his

path, just like a mountain-sized mouse could be expected to do. Lord Ganesha,

who was being taken care of by Maharshi Parashar and his wife Vatsala in the

hermitage, heard all the commotion and decided to do something about this pesky

little -- sorry, make that HUMUNGOUS -- mouse!

 

Ganesha unleashed one of his his secret weapons: a glorious pasha (noose), which

he sent flying in the general direction of the rodentified Kroncha. The pasha

was so radiant its light filled the entire universe, if the Hindu scriptures can

be trusted as a historical guide! Pasha chased the mouse and looped around his

neck, lassoo-style; Kroncha fainted, overcome by radiance; Pasha tightened Its

Grip, retracted, and brought Kroncha to Ganesha's feet. It was the kind of

action scene worthy of a Bollywood melodrama!

 

GANESHA'S MERCY ---- Kroncha Is Mounted.

AND LORD GANESHA SAID: " Kroncha, you have troubled the Sages and Brahmins to no

end, but since you sue for forgiveness, I shall use you as my vehicle. "

Whereupon Ganesha mounted Kroncha. But Ganesha was too heavy -- Kroncha was

being crushed into His Elephantine Weight! Or so the Hindu story goes. But if

Kroncha was at this time the size of a mountain, then Ganesha must have been

much, much bigger than a mountain. This indeterminancy in the size and scale of

things drives me crazy, but seems endemic in Hindu mythology!

 

Anyway, Kroncha cried with pain and pleaded: " Aah! I am being pulverised under

your weight. Oh God! -- please be kind to me and make yourself light, that I can

more easily bear your weight. " Seeing the mouse so subdued Ganesha took pity on

him and made himself light, such that Kroncha could bear Him. Ever since,

Ganesha has been using the mouse, Kroncha, the DemiGod, as his vehicle, and

Kroncha has happily borne Him, everywhere.

 

Or so the story goes. But in other stories, Ganesha's Mount Mouse is called

Mushika, a tiny mouse or shrew. He attests to the all-pervasiveness of the

Elephant God and carries Ganesha's grace into every nook and cranny. So who is

the real mouse: Kroncha or Mushika? Is he really the size of a mountain, the

size of a standard Earth mouse, or kind of cow-sized (as in the illustration

above)? In Hinduism there is never a straight answer to any of these questions.

Which is exactly what makes it cool, in a crazy uncertain infuriating kind of

way! There is more than one answer to every question.

 

Ref. http://www.angelfire.com/id/croon/india/ganeshamouse.html

 

sacred-objects , " robb thurston " <robb7thurston

wrote:

>

> Om Guru Krishna;

> I am very interested in Mooshika or Musika, the Rat familiar or

> mount of Sri Ganapati deva. In a perfect universe, I would be able to

> find these things:

> (1)Vedic mantra (hypothetically: om namo...etc.);

> (2) Tantrika Bijas (hypothetically Aum, Srim, etc.);

> (3) Yantras for Mushika;

> (4) Gayatri for Musika;

> (5) Vedic and Puranica stories of Musika with verses supplied.

> If you have the means for Musika meditation, I desire to see

> these things. Please kindly assist.

> Om santi, santi, santih!!

> Robb

> <<robb7thurston@>>

>