The Ganesh Icon
The Hindu
(householder) deity* Ganesh, ‘The Supreme Remover of Obstacles’, symbolizes,
as icon, hence as useful fiction, the universal capacity
of all living creatures to solve problems. By solving
a (indeed any) problem (to wit, by removing any obstacle, thus eliminating
drag and gaining a survival capacity acceleration) a life form, such as an human, achieves release (i.e. boundless (≈
Sanskrit: ananta) liberation (≈ Sanskrit: moksha)) and which results in (the
rush or surge of) boundless enlightenment. Enlightenment may be
self-applied/self-signalled as happiness (or joy, rapture or bliss, Sanskrit:
ananda)). In short, Ganesh,
alias the universal problem solving (or diagnostic) program, comes with
everyone’s survival equipment at birth. Consequently Ganesh need not be
‘taken into the heart’ (meaning the pre-conscious) for he abides there
always. Note: The fact that Ganesh resides in (the cave
of) the heart is for most Hindus, specifically Hindu householders and their
children as members of the Grhasthya ashram, hugely
problematic. It is for the benefit, indeed protection of the householder that
Ganesh (i.e. the universal Ganesh program) is simply projected outside, made
as it were transcendent. By
worshipping, that is to say, by actively engaging with (i.e. processing the
data of) the Ganesh icon ( ≈ as reified idea
of the universal problem solving program projected outside), the Ganesh
program within (i.e. as part of the Basic Operating System of all living
creatures) is resonated and thereby activated, and can do its problem solving
job. Likewise,
a true Christian (save members of AA) does not take (the deity) ‘Jesus’ (i.e. the program of
self-sacrifice and which when activated opens the gate to freedom ‘to’ by means of which one enters ‘the
kingdom of heaven’) into his or her heart. ‘Jesus’ (to wit, the Jesus
program) comes with everyone’s survival equipment at birth. It only needs to
be activated and/or intensified to become fully functional. Activation is
initiated by means of (icon) worship (worship meaning: intense processing).
However, the Jesus program is completed (and perfected) by worshipping not
the Jesus icon but by applying the Jesus program to any living creature as
icon (i.e. as fractal elaboration) of the basic creation algorithm (or Turing Machine as abstract set of rules or
forces) called (the One) God. *… For ‘deity’ read: a universal sub-function/program
that inheres in all forms. No icon (i.e. as nama-rupa, i.e. as name and
form) exists for the basic creation program and which 2500 years ago the
creators of the Upanishads fantasised as the formless (Sanskrit: nirguna)
Brahman. All deities serve by and large as useful fictions, some as placebos
some as nocebos. |