Handmade Statue Decorative Object

Features

• Hence, a warrior-like form, equipped with deadly weapons, appears to contradict deity's total personality and concept. It is not, however, so. All wars, at least such as Ganesh-like divinities undertake, are not fought in the battlefield. Ganesh symbolises the war that endlessly goes on within good conscience waging against evil, and spirit against its material bondage. Goad, noose, mace and trident are faculties of the intrinsic being. Goad is the instrument that keeps the conscience alert and forward moving. Noose keeps all faculties collected, as also drags evil to right path, but in case it continues to persist, mace crushes it or trident pierces. Helmet, designed with a crown-like forepart and spiral apex, depicts the crowning glory of mind and its spiral rise. In analogy, while meditating on Yuddha Ganapati form, mind is able to collect all its faculties and confront evil more effectively.
• The posture of Ganapati reveals determination, an aspect of Yuddha Ganapati. Yuddha war or battle, is perceived as involving a lot of activity, but the Yuddha Ganapati form does not involve any. It is actually the form to meditate on and realise in the mind. It is hence devoid of all acts. Only the right foot has a little forward thrust denoting right direction. In Indian tradition, left denotes dissolution, decay and transition and the right, right path. In 'tandava', Shiva raised his left leg, as it aimed at dissolving the cosmos. When performing the 'bhanwara' ritual circumambulating the ritual fire, during a marriage ceremony in India, the bride lifts her left leg first, while the groom, his right. The bride dissolves former ties, and the groom is imperated to take her and himself to right path. Ganesh, when he is invoked in the form showing forward move, keeps the devotee to the right path. Hence, Yuddha Ganapati icons are modelled with a forward thrust.