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Guruji explains Ucchishta Ganapati, a form of Ganesha who rejects nothing as worship. This page keeps his words as he wrote them.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Post title: "Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati — The Lord Who Accepts Everything". Dated 5 November 2016. Posted on Guruji's blog by Vira Chandra. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com.
A note before you read: Guruji describes this deity with the open, physical language of temple symbolism. We have kept every word as he wrote it. Read it as spiritual symbolism, not as instruction.
Guruji:
Ganesha is called a hasti = having a hand; hasta means hand.
UG’s form is that his hasta is at the yoni of his Śakti, Nīla Sarasvatī, playing with it.
Her yoni is considered to be Kāmākhyā, whose abode is Nīla Parvata.
She is playing with his phallus.
This form of UG is meditated on after dusk in the evening.Uch + śiṣṭa = ucchiṣṭa means the ultimate.
Gaṇapati helps to cross over obstacles. He gives knowledge.
His Śakti is Nīla Sarasvatī; she gives complete knowledge of any vidyā.
She is Vidyā Rājñī.
She is pleased through yoni pūjā.
Her yoni (vagina) is Kāmākhyā.He is mischievous.
He (Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati) is making love to his partner (Nīla Sarasvatī) with his trunk.Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati is called great, because he does not reject anything as pūjā.
He does not judge — this is good and this is bad.Up to a point, the paths of Śrīvidyā and Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati go parallel; they accept sexuality and sensuality as sacred offerings.
When it comes to insults, they diverge.
This is the difference.Since Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati accepts vulgarity and even insults as his being.
Erotic play is the best worship to Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati.Why is UG considered the high and great?
UG accepts even utter sensuality as his pūjā.
He is doing the mantra japa while his Śakti is uttering orgasmic cries.Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati is one where he accepts anything as divine, even swearing.
He is Gaṇapati that searches the deep unknown, shown with his dantam inside Nīla Sarasvatī yoni.
They are both in divine bliss with each other.
She is holding his genital to express her love and connection to him.Like Śiva (time) entering Śakti (space), he is searching the hidden universe via his ekadantam (one tusk) — he sees and loves the divine in everything, beautiful and crude.
Accepts everything as divine and discards nothing.Sādhana of Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati is very powerful but a razor’s edge.
nīlābjadāḍimī-vīṇā |
śālī-guñjākṣa-sūtrakam |
dadhad-ucchiṣṭa-nāmāyaṃ |
gaṇeśaḥ pātu mecakaḥ ||graṃthāntare |
nāriy-onirasāsavāda |
lolupaṃ kāma-mohitam iti ||8|| nīla-varṇaḥHe has six arms.
He is blue in colour.
His hands show the rosary, the pomegranate, the paddy ear (śālyagra), the nocturnal lotus, the lute (vīṇā).
His sixth hand sometimes bears a guñjā berry and embraces the Goddess.
The Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati trunk is placed on the Goddess’s thigh.
Guruji, "Ucchiṣṭa Gaṇapati — The Lord Who Accepts Everything", as posted on Guruji's blog by Vira Chandra on 5 November 2016. The text is kept as in the original.
In Kaula practice, the teaching here is about acceptance. The Goddess and her partner are shown holding nothing back, and nothing is called too low or too crude to be offered.
Guruji says Sri Vidya and this path run side by side up to a point, then part over insults. He also warns that this sadhana is a razor's edge, so it is not something to try alone or on a whim. Any outer practice in our lineage is done only with willing, consenting adults, under proper guidance. He attained mahasamadhi in October 2015, and Guru Amma Annapurnamba guides the lineage today. This site is an independent practitioner's space and does not speak on behalf of Devipuram.
Guruji says ucchishta means the ultimate. Ucchishta Ganapati is the Ganesha form who accepts everything as puja.
Guruji says his Shakti is Nila Sarasvati, who gives complete knowledge of any vidya and is called Vidya Rajni.
Guruji says he is great because he does not reject anything as puja and does not judge things as good or bad.
Guruji says the two run parallel up to a point. They part when it comes to insults, which Ucchishta Ganapati accepts as his own being.
Guruji calls it very powerful but a razor's edge. That is a warning to take great care and seek guidance.
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