Unless the self-contained engage with the needy, the needy will never learn how to become self-contained. Parvati’s
When humanity ignores imagination, there is no growth, no quest to outgrow fear, no desire for spiritual reality. Evolution does not happen. Spiritual reality remains undiscovered. Only the self matters; others remain invisible. In other words, humans stay animals.
folklore, tusks are associated with pretension: elephants show one set of teeth while they eat with another set of teeth. By
breaking off one of the tusks, Ganesha is breaking pretension. The tusks are symbols of aggressive power. Ganesha is breaking it so that strength is used only to defend and nourish, not dominate and exploit.
‘You seek food to conquer hunger and end up hoarding food. My father shows how to outgrow hunger, and hence is happy even in the
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