Ganesha, The One Who Rides Rats
Ganesha, The One Who Rides Rats
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Ganesha is Mangala-Murti, the embodiment of auspiciousness. Why then does he have as his mount something so inauspicious as a rodent? Mooshika embodies the pest that plagues our lives, a problem so small that it eludes detection, and exasperates us. Imagine someone who gets rid of all those irritating rat-like problems of your life. That someone, for Hindus, is Ganesha. Around Ganesha’s giant belly is a serpent — that friend of the farmer — who eats the rats, controls pilferage and thus protects the harvest. With the grace of Ganesha, problems disappear and prosperity and power appear. You can imagine Ganesha catching hold of a problem (rat/mouse/bandicoot) by its tail, dragging it away, sitting on it, so that it troubles you no more. No wonder Ganesha is such a popular god. Remover of rats that plague our existence. Remover of obstacles, remover of hurdles.








