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		<title>Singing To Ganesha</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[For those of you who can read and play music, here is a song to Ganesha. found inLoving Ganesa by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Is Permanent</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles. ~Charlie Chaplin]]></description>
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		<title>Brahma&#8217;s Initiation</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[After dissolution of the Universe, Brahma, drifting in the primordial waters that preceded creation, came across Ganesha sitting in a lone banyan tree that remained. Ganesha touched Brahma&#8217;s head and initiated him into the mantra &#8216;Om&#8217;. Brahma prayed before Ganesha who bestowed upon him the knowledge to create the universe, in return for which he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[All talk of surrender is like stealing sugar from a sugar image of Ganesha and then offering it to the same Ganesha. You say that you offer up your body and soul and all your possessions to God, but were they yours to offer? At best you can say, &#8216;I wrongly imagined till now that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How Ganesha Became Known As God of Beginnings</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Once, Ganesha was guarding the swargalok while everyone had left to attend Lord Vishnu&#8217;s wedding. When Narad Muni saw Ganesha alone, he told him that he was not invited because he was fat and ate too much. This made Ganesha angry, who sent his mouse and asked them to dig the soil from inside and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How a Mouse Became Ganesha&#8217;s Vehicle</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Gajmukhasur was a demon who was a devotee of Lord Shiva. He prayed and asked Shiva for a boon that no god or human would be able to harm him. Being benevolent, Shiva granted it to him but warned him against its misuse. But Gajmukhasar, being a demon, began killing people and destroying their homes. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Of The Sweet Kheer</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Ganesha once entered a village in the form of a boy, holding rice in one hand and milk in the other. He began asking for help to make some kheer but everybody was busy. He reached a poor woman’s hut who agreed to make the kheer for him. As she mixed it together and set the pot [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of The Lunar Curse</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[This story follows right after the proceedings of Kubera’s dinner. After eating to his will, Ganesha’s stomach had become terribly large and he got a pot belly. Walking around with it became difficult for him and as he moved, he ended up losing his balance and stumbled and fell down. The moon, who was watching [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Of Ganesha’s Single Tusk</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[There are many versions that explain this but this Bal Ganesh story does it best. As legend has it, Mahabharata is Ved Vyas’ creation but it is said to be written by Lord Ganesha himself. Ved Vyas approached Ganesha so that he could transcribe the epic story as he narrated it to him. The condition was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Of Kaveri’s Creation</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[It begins with the wish of a sage called Agastya who wished to create a river that would benefit the people staying in the southern lands. The Gods heeded his wish and presented him with a small bowl containing water. Wherever he would pour the bowl, the river would originate from there. Agastya decided to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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