Ganesh is not a real deity but rather a symbolic representation of being knowledgeable. In the past, people with stone intellects began worshipping stone idols like Ganesh. God may reward devotees' worship by granting visions of deities like Ganesh, but these visions provide no real benefit as the deities like Ganesh are not God. The symbol of Ganesh, a swastika, represents being stable in knowledge and embracing knowledge of all creation.
2. What BKs Murlis Say About Ganesh
Sakaar Murli : Various Dates
We began to fall in the copper age and we became even more vicious in the iron age.
We continued to make stone idols of Hanuman and Ganesh. We became those with
stone intellects and began to worship stone. We believed that God exists in
pebbles and stones. By our doing all of that, the condition of Bharat has become like
this
The Father says: I fulfil whatever devotional feelings they remember Me with. If they
are worshippers of Ganesh, I grant them a vision of Ganesh. When they have a
vision, they believe that they have reached the land of liberation, but no one can go to
the land of liberation.
Some have visions of Hanuman and others have visions of Ganesh. None of them
are God. I do not have a body of My own. Maya, Ravan has made everyone foolish.
It is all right to say that you offer it to God. Nothing can be received by saying that
they offer it to Shri Ganesh. Nevertheless, I have been giving something or another
to everyone as the return of their devotion
3. What BKs Murlis Say About Ganesh
Sakaar Murli : Various Dates
Devotees sit and worship Hanuman and Ganesh etc. Now, how would they have
visions of them? The Father says: I am the One who is the Bestower of divine
visions. I, Myself, give visions to those who have done a lot of devotion. However,
there is no benefit in those. They just become happy. They still continue to commit
sin.
Businessmen draw a swastika on their account books and call
that Ganesh. Ganesh has also been shown with an elephant's trunk. People spend
money and draw pictures etc. but that is called a waste of time.
Businessmen have a swastika on their account books. That too has a meaning. They
simply call it Ganesh. They consider Ganesh to be a deity, the destroyer of
obstacles.
On the path of devotion, some have been holding on to Hanuman, some
to Ganesh and others to someone else. However, they are not God.
4. What BKs Murlis Say About Ganesh
Avyakth Murli : Original Date 13 Nov 1985
You draw a swastika on them, do you not? Ganesh (swastika is also called Ganesh). You also
definitely put a dot in each of the four sections of the swastika. Why do you put those dots? At the
time of beginning any task, you definitely draw a swastika and say, “Salutations to Ganesh.”
Whose memorial is this? Why is the swastika called Ganesh? The swastika symbolises being
stable in your own stage and having the knowledge of the whole of creation.
Ganesh means knowledge-full. All the knowledge is merged in the one picture of the swastika.
They show the Ganesh or swastika as a memorial of the awareness of being knowledge-full.
What does this mean? The basis of success in any task is to be knowledge-full, that is, to be
sensible and an embodiment of knowledge. If you become sensible and an embodiment of
knowledge, every action would then be elevated and successful, would it not?
Those people simply draw this symbol on paper as a memorial, whereas you Brahmin souls
create every thought whilst being knowledge-full yourselves, and you would therefore experience
those thoughts and that success at the same time.
So, from today, with the colour of this determination, every thought and sanskar has to be new in
the account books of your lives. Not that it will happen at some time; it definitely does have to
happen! Become stable in your original stage and do this (the practice of remembering
Shri Ganesh and drawing a swastika at the start of any auspicious task); that is, begin this now.
Become Shri Ganesh yourself and begin it.
5. Conclusions
Ganesh doesn’t exist and isn’t real.
Ganesh is Symbolic of being Knowledgeful.
People with stone intellects started worshipping stones.
Its God who grants visions of the perceived deities as a
reward of their devotion.
There is no real benefit in these visions.
Ganesh is not God