05-10-2007, 02:52 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Ashok Kumar+May 9 2007, 11:22 PM-->QUOTE(Ashok Kumar @ May 9 2007, 11:22 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here is the Mother's first encounter with Lord Ganesha, as narrated by herself sometime during 1958:
<b>And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the world's wealth), I thought, 'Isn't this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination?'Â
  Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long ... and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, 'Ah! So it's true that you exist!' - 'Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!'</b>
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She saw in her "mind" what she wanted to see.
<b>And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the world's wealth), I thought, 'Isn't this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination?'Â
  Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long ... and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, 'Ah! So it's true that you exist!' - 'Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!'</b>
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She saw in her "mind" what she wanted to see.