"Pursue the obstacles...it will set you free."
"Ganesh is the Hindu god who is the provider and remover of obstacles. He is often depicted as an elephant. Ganesh is the lord of all existing beings. Legend has it that when given the task to race around the universe, Ganesh did not traverse the outer surface of the earth, but simply walked inwardly around Shiva and Parvati, his mother and father, who are the source and center of all existence. This is the secret understanding of Ganesh as the provider and remover of obstacles. For all too often, the obstacles that we experience are presented as ways to remember that the inner walk around the source, not the outer race, is the purpose of living. The obstacles are presented to break our trance with the race and jar us humbly back to the source, and they are often removed once our deeper sense has been restored.
It seems the truth of experience can only release its wisdom if embodied. It is the journey through the life of obstacles that is the labor we must endure in order to birth any wisdom at all."
- Mark Nepo
Often Ganesh is seen holding one of his tusks in his right hand, which he broke off in a fit of anger and hurled it at the moon. But the moon spit it back, and he carries that broken piece of himself as a remider of the earthly journey that no one can escape.
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