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||Life Lessons from God Ganesha's 5 Legends||

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God Ganesha is not only god of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, but also a phenomenal teacher if you pay close attention to his ancient legends. We can also learn a thing or 2 about life...
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from these legends:

1. Duty is above all else:
After creating god Ganesha, ma Parvati asked him to guard while she bathed. At same time god Shiva arrived & demanded entry. Upon refusal by god Ganesha, furious god Shiva beheaded him.

This teaches a lesson that there is no..
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greater virtue than being dutiful towards your parents. Despite knowing consequences, god Ganesha fulfilled his duty at cost of his own life

2. Nobody is more important than one's parents:
On seeing his two sons god Ganesha & god Kartikeya competing for the only available..
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miraculous sacred fruit, god Shiva asked them to circumnavigate the world thrice, and the one who finished navigation first would be blessed with fruit. God Kartikeya, eager to win the race, left on his peacock, while god Ganesha circled around his parents thrice who were...
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his idea of the world. Finally god Ganesha was blessed with fruit of knowledge & came to be known as the god of Knowledge.

This legend is a lesson on how parents can never cease to be important

3. Forgiveness is the ultimate virtue:
The legend says that god Ganesha once...
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was returning from a satiating feast thrown by god Kuber. Miffed with the moon for mocking his pot-belly, god Ganesha cursed him to disappear from sky completely while moon begged for forgiveness. Ultimately, god Ganesha gave into his requests & reduced the disappearance...
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span of moon from sky to 1 day.

This legend explains how anger gets to the best of us, but it is our power to overcome it & that makes us a better human being.

4. You should finish every task you take up:
While writing the great epic Mahabharata being recited by sage...
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Vyasa, God Ganesha's pen broke in between. As the task was to be continued without pause, god Ganesha broke one of his tusks & continued writing

God Ganesha sacrificed his own tusk to finish a task meant for greater good. If we could all imbibe this lesson, we would all..
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be closer to success

5. Always stand up for your self respect:
Legend has it that once all gods & godesses tricked god Ganesha into taking care of swarglok & headed towards god Vishnu's marriage procession as they were embarrassed of his physical appearance & massive...
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diet. On learning this, god Ganesha sent his rat-vehicle, Gajasur to dig up the roads that led to godesses Lakshmi's abode where the procession was to go. Deities eventually had to take help of god Ganesha to remove obstacle & they apologized to him as well. God Ganesha...
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attended marriage respectfully.

This legend teaches a lesson to never let anyone undermine or judge your abilities on the basis of physical appearance/habits.

: Various sources from internet
Text: India Today

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