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Ganesha
April 20, 2018

Heramba

One of the Tantrik forms of Ganesha is known as Heraṃba. Scholars believe that the name Heraṃba translates to “protector of the weak”. Unlike in his regular iconography, Heramba Ganapati rides a lion and is often depicted with five faces – four elephant heads facing the cardinal directions while the fifth one looking skywards. Heramba has 10 arms holding pasha (noose), danta (his teeth), aksamala (rosary), parashu (battle-axe), a three-headed mudgara (mallet), and a sweet modak. Two other arms depict varamudra (blessings) and abhayamudra (granting fearlessness). Sometimes a garland and fruit are also added to the iconography of Heraṃba, as…
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Ganesha
April 20, 2018

Vighnaharta

  The devotee should meditate on Ganesha whose splendor is like the rising Sun, who holds the noose and the gesture of fearlessness in his left hands and the boon-bestowing mudra and a goad in his right hands, whose face resembles that of the elephant, whose dress is red in colour, who is rendered beautiful by means of different ornaments, who is pleasing and who is extremely competent in removing all kinds of miseries. The above is a visualization of Ganesha described in a medieval manual pertaining to Ganesha sadhanas. Ganapati being the Lord of beginnings, and the controller of…
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