Ketu Remedies & Lord Ganesha Connection

Lord Ganesha is the only God that has NO HUMAN HEAD.

Lord Ketu is the only entity in the whole gamut of astrology that has NO HUMAN HEAD.

The divine message that they share with us is to — TURN IN.

But the majority is always concerned with TURNING ON. (RAHU)

It is not a fact that Lord Ganesha’s human head was cut by Shiva. It is just a symbolic representation — a divine message that human beings should think less and feel more. That human beings should start moving beyond mind.

Thinking helps to solve problems/puzzles that are created by thinking — by the mind.

Whatever problems are created by the mind — you can solve it by using the same mind — the thinking pattern. Mind is mathematics — so you can solve mathematics by thinking because it is created by the Mind. The trees that you count — 1 2 3 — this is the mathematics of your mind — the trees has nothing to do with it. It is a creation of your mind — whatever is the creation of the mind can be solved by the mind — by thinking.

BUT — what is NOT of the mind — but of the HEART or of the NATURE — of the COSMOS- cannot be solved by the MIND — then you are trapped — then you all cannot find the answer — that is how the so called intellectuals then start struggling — they become impotent in solving the case — because they miss to realize that the problem is existential.

Love is also an existential problem. You cannot solve love problems by thinking — you may go on thinking and thinking and thinking but you will come back to where you had started — you will find yourself trapped in a circle that just never ends and still you go on thinking…..with no absolute solution!

Thinking won’t help in such situations. Only when you stop thinking — only when there is NO HEAD — NO MIND — that you can FEEL and it is only when you FEEL that you can find the way — the solution — the answer to your problem.

There are many such existential problems — DEATH. BIRTH. LOVE. These all are existential problems — they are beyond mind and when you try to solve them by using your Mind — you fail, you fail miserably because you miss to understand that these existential problems cannot be solved by thinking — but only when you stop thinking and start feeling — thinking won’t let you ‘vibrate’ with the existence — it is only when you start feeling that you can vibrate and it is only when you vibrate that you start coming close to the source of the problem.

When there is TOO MUCH OF THINKING (HEAD) — you are simply missing to identify the source of the problem.

When there is absolutely NO THINKING, NO MIND — TRUTH appears before you — you find the source of the problem and when the source is found — the solution comes on its own!

Meditation is the state of NO MIND. When there is absolutely NO THINKING — meditation happens. When there are ‘thoughts’ — it is a distraction and when there are NO THOUGHTS — it is Meditation.

Lord Ganesha is Meditation.

Lord Ketu is Meditation.

The idol of Lord Ganesha simply reflects HIS state of Meditation. There is absolutely NO HEAD,NO MIND — Ganesha is deeply engrossed WITHIN — what a beautiful representation is this — one of the greatest wonders with such a great message — that IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EXPERIENCE JOY, HAPPINESS, PEACE than — look at me, says Ganesha — I have NO HEAD — NO MIND — I am deeply engrossed within by TURNING INWARDS.

Mohan asked “ Then how come the Elephant face?”

The HEAD or FACE of Elephant is just a representation of HIS deep wisdom. Elephants are the wisest animals and so the ancient Seers and Sages — instilled the idol of Ganesha with an Elephant Face or Head — when in reality this deity has NO HEAD, NO MIND and that is what MAKES HIM one of the GREATEST LORDS — without taking the name of Lord Ganesha — NO SCRIPTURE begins — it only begins and completes when one says:

|| “ Shri Ganeshaya Namaha ||

One of the most striking similarity between Ketu and Ganesha — is the quality of BEING DETACHED!

How? asked Mohan.

I asked him “ What do you do after worshiping the idol of Lord Ganesha for 10 days during Ganesha festival?”

“I disperse the idol in a clean flowing water — river or sea.” said Mohan.

So you understand. And I appeal to all my close followers, fellow travelers and readers — understand the fact that the action of dispersing the idol in itself is a message — that you should live with DETACHMENT! For 10 days you worship the HIS idol — but in the end — what is he asking to do? To NOT to remain ATTACHED but to detach yourself and disperse (LET GO) HIS idol by dropping it in the flowing water!

Understand this and this is very significant — the whole message of the VISARJAN process (dispersing the Ganesha idol) is to help you realize the fact that LIFE SHOULD BE LIVED WITH DETACHMENT.

And that is EXACTLY the divine message of Lord KETU — DETACHMENT!

Real success in life comes only through DETACHMENT — one who self-realizes this truth goes a long way….

India is the only country and Hindu is the only religion — a unique religion where people make the mud idol and then the same people disperse the mud idol! And it is a very deep message from the Hindu civilization that — NOTHING is permanent and nothing can be permanent, even your image of God!

To throw away the idol of Ganesha — to disperse the idol of Ganesha — a great courage is required — and this is deep, very deep. You have put everything that you had in your Father — to nurture Him, to comfort Him — for many days you have loved Him, worshiped Him and now you have to LET HIM GO — how difficult it is going to be….how much courage is required to let him go….and you don’t know next year if you would be there again to bring him back! But it has to be done — the message of Ganesha is simple — ‘LOVE ME — but Let that LOVE be detached!’

Detachment is being lovable — but without being possessive.

Detachment means not that you should not own bungalows and cars and beautiful things in life — YOU CAN HAVE ALL OF THEM — BUT you should not be attached to those things. Even if you have 10 bungalows and a dozen cars — still you SHOULD NOT GET ATTACHED to them. But unfortunately that is what happens! The things in your life possess you — you think you possess them but you becomes so attached to them that they start possessing you and then you are trapped — you are deeply trapped!

Look at the beautiful lotus flower — it is rooted in the water — but it is always found — above the water!

The real Yogi is like a lotus flower — HE is very much with us but not attached. His whole being is LOVE — if you come, he will offer you as much love as you can receive — and if you leave, he will not be disturbed — because HIS love is not dependent on the outside factor — he is no more falling in love — he has become LOVE — whoever comes to HIM — will be touched and blessed by the fragrance of his detached love.

The Master is contented man. He has absolutely NO expectations. HE asks for NOTHING. So then it becomes difficult to understand HIM — especially those who are always HUNGRY! Buddha calls those people HUNGRY who always want more and more and more — this MORE is RAHU. And NO MORE is KETU!

Lord Ganesha wants nothing — has HAS no expectations — HE is in his peace and so whenever anybody is suffering because of RAHU — I ask him or her to visit Lord Ganesha temple, to worship HIM, to read His Shlokas — His Stotras.

It is NOT that Ganesha and KETU are the same. Whenever I mention in my answers — and I have been mentioning many times — that when I say Ketu is Sri Ganesha — I mean when you worship GANESHA — the QUALITIES of KETU will start enhancing within your being. Then you will understand KETU — then you will RESONATE with HIS energy — then you will start TURNING INWARD!

And this is significant — this is very significant for you ALL to understand that the more you WORSHIP GANESHA — the more you would NURTURE the KETU QUALITIES within YOU and that will be a great blow to RAHU! That will be a great danger to RAHU — because NOW you are becoming intelligent — now you are TURNING INWARD — now you are becoming WISE — now you are NO MORE interested on the outside — now you are slowly steadily getting ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF — and that is indeed a great transformation — a great transformation in the making.

The more you go deep within your being — the more you meditate by focusing on your breath — breath in — breath out — between these two actions the whole story of your life is scripted. AND the more your meditation improves the more you — yourself will be able to READ the SCRIPT of your life — then NO astrologer will be required and no Pundit — but then these men will be in trouble because then how will their business run! And that is exactly what this SOCIETY wants — the SOCIETY NEVER wants you to become WISE because then you will become INDEPENDENT — then you cannot be exploited — then the SOCIETY will be in trouble — whereas the SOCIETY always wants you to be in TROUBLE so that the ‘meter’ of money continues — uninterrupted!

A wise man is an ‘Individual’ — he is not behind personalities — he thrown away the ‘mask’ of personality and lives his life by being himself. A wise man is ALIVE — is AFIRE — he is COURAGEOUS — he would rather die than to be enslaved!

Lord Ganesha represents the wisdom of such a wise man. It is through LORD GANESHA — that you realize the beauty of KETU.

By and by — whatever DEITY you worship — certain QUALITIES of a planet or an entity such as KETU develops within you!

When you worship:

Lord GANESHA: KETU qualities develop within you.

Lord DATTATREYA: JUPITER qualities develop within you.

Lord VISHNU: JUPITER qualities develop within you.

Lord KRISHNA: JUPITER and MERCURY qualities develop within you.

Lord SHIVA: SUN MOON KETU qualities develop within you.

Lord HANUMAN — MARS QUALITIES

Lord MHASOBA (a well known deity of Maharashtra) — MARS QUALITIES

GODDESS LAKSHMI — VENUS and MERCURY

GODDESS DURGA — MARS and VENUS

RAHU Qualities are developed when you worship TANTRIK GODS — or GODS that rule the UNDERWORLD — meaning the PATAL LOK. Generally the Reptile Snake Gods represent the qualities of RAHU. Some Tantrik Goddess or Goddess of Tantra also represent RAHU qualities.

So every DIETY is in a way — a BRIDGE between YOU and the concerned PLANET energy.

While if you ask me — then to me the GREATEST BRIDGE is the MASTER — the GURU! Through the benevolent master — you experience GOD. And Sant Kabir beautifully mentions the significance of the GURU through his divine words and those words should be inscribed in GOLD:

Beautiful. Kabir goes deep into our heart — one of the greatest saint that the world had ever know! I humbly prostrate before His Holiness — Sant Kabir.

All the divine saints would not have become saints — had it not been the grace of Lord Ganesha and the matured state of KETU within them!

WITHOUT KETU — there is absolutely no enlightenment. KETU therefore is one of the greatest ‘tool’ of the benevolent GURU — because KETU is DETACHMENT and unless you start becoming DETACHED there is absolutely no way for you to PROGRESS in the true sense!

You have asked a very beautiful question — and it has many dimensions to it. The last dimension is of Mecury!

One has to understand that Mercury is your INTELLECT.

But Intellect is a very poor substitute for Intelligence!

So when you come in contact with Lord Ganesha — when you start worshiping HIM with pure heart, unwavering faith and devotion — the INTELLECT within you starts TUNING with your HEART and when INTELLECT tunes with your HEART — INTELLIGENCE is born — Intelligence therefore is of the HEART and NOT of the HEAD.

Intellect is of the MIND. Everyday I receive all kinds of emails, hundreds of emails from ‘intellectual’ men and women — and all they do is that they write long emails asking about this house and that house and that yoga and this yoga. But one in a million comes and asks ONLY that which can help him realize the real thing! And because he or she knows what is the REAL thing — that they can ask some real good questions — the rest are yet to realize what is the REAL THING and so the question they ask are also not real — just a lot of noise, and nothing else!

Mercury therefore is disliked by the master — Jupiter! Because the master is all for the heart — and mercury is all in the HEAD! Through the HEAD you can travel from A to Z — but beyond Z the doors closed — there is no further going, you are trapped — you are utterly trapped in your intellectualism.

This intellectualism is TRANSFORMED into intelligence only when you worship Lord Ganesha — the more your SEVA (service) towards HIM grows — the more the ‘PLASTIC ROSE’ starts transforming into a ‘REAL ROSE’!

And REAL ROSE is beautiful -yes it has many imperfections and yet it is BEAUTIFUL because now it has a certain FRAGRANCE to it , a certain LIFE to it!

A REAL MAN, A REAL WOMAN — I like them, in fact I love them. But let me tell you they are in minority — in fact one in a million. In this KALI YUG, men and woman also disguise themselves as REAL — when they are just FAKING it — so one has to be really cautious before opening the doors of your heart.

Such fake men and women — then come up with the idea of non-attachment — but that is again an escape route — they are AFRAID that if they get into a relationship then they may get attached and then the pain.

Non-attachment is NOT detachment.

Non-attachment is a makeup from those fake men and fake women who are afraid of getting attached and so they keep running away from any relationships.

Detachment — a detached man or woman is NOT AFRAID of getting attached. The ‘Inner Engineering’ is so strongly developed through meditations that nobody can move him or disturb him — such a man is a man of awareness, he lives, laughs with you but he is absolutely detached — if you take him to your Palace — he will come, if you ask him to stay beneath a tree — he will stay — for him PALACE or TREE doesn’t make a difference — he may sleep on the Royal Bed and he is also happy to sleep on the hard ground — for him there is NO attachment — he can come anytime and he can also leave anytime — nobody can bond him — he remains detached but with abundance of LOVE in HIS heart.

There is a very deep connection between detachment and intelligence! An intellectual man can never live a detached life. He may live a non-attached life — but for him living a detached life is next to impossible!

Such an intellectual man goes on living his life by believing that — SHE is MY WIFE. SHE is MY DAUGHTER. THAT is MY Bungalow. THAT is MY CAR. THAT IS MY DESK. THAT IS MY COMPANY. THAT IS MY…..MY and MY and MY and this MY never gets him out of the CAGE. He himself prepares a nice CAGE around him and then starts feeling suffocated and then comes and asks “ Why my life is so miserable?”

Now what to tell him. And first of all is he going to ever understand a single word that I may share with him?

People are running all over the world in search of the Master — in search of a Guide — the question is — even by luck you found one — how is it going to help you — if YOU are yet NOT READY to understand his words, his language?

Therefore I say — read, read some of my books and then come to me — then there is a possibility that you may relate to what I saying to you — you may understand what I am trying to tell you. I already have ENOUGH — so by buying my books you are not going to make me rich. But by reading my books you can certainly become rich — WITHIN.

And a man who is becoming RICH from WITHIN is a man of worth. It is worth helping such a man — because the THIRST in him is now for that — which is beyond — the divine — the unseen….

The real blessing is when you start turning inward. Lord Ganesha is the most significant deity whose message for all HIS devotees is to turn inwards. Through HIS appearance — the message is loud and clear — HE is saying — ‘look I have NO head, No mind — I am deeply engrossed within…..and so why can’t you do so?”

Through the ritual of immersing HIS idol on the tenth day of Ganesha festival — the Sages are simply conveying the message that DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO EVEN THE IDOL GOD — TIME comes and YOU HAVE TO LET GO — YOU HAVE TO IMMERSE by becoming DETACHED!

KETU’s message is also the same. Live a detached life. You are married — then do not become POSSESSIVE. The moment you become possessive — love ceases to exist! Love feels suffocated when there is NO FREEDOM! Why you become POSSESSIVE? Because of your fear of losing! When I say — you — it is for all readers and followers. You fear of losing and so you want to possess. In this madness, you go on missing love — the more you become possessive the more you are moving away from love — then your wife starts feeling suffocated — the children, the mother, the father — everybody feel suffocated when somebody tries to POSSESS them — love ends and what remains is POSSESSION — what is the point in living such a life?

When you LOVE — you simply LOVE. When you love — let there be no doubt — let there be no fear of losing — REMEMBER that is the message of KETU — that is what DETACHMENT is — you love — you simply love!

An innocent man goes on loving — people may cheat him, he may be cheated by his lover — he may be cheated by his wife — but his INNOCENCE remains.