Om parvati pataye
Hara hara hara mahadev
Gajananam buta
Ganadi sevatam
Kapitha jambu
Phalacharu bhakshanam
Umasutam shoka
Vinasha karakam
Namami vigneshvara
Pada pankajam
Translation:
O elephant-faced God, Ganesha,
you are served by the attendants of Shiva
and you eat forest apples and blackberries.
You are Uma's son, the destroyer of sorrows.
I bow to the lotus feet of the remover of obstacles.
Here's the woman singing it that I listened to until I could imitate the sounds:
http://www.jivanjili.org/sound/Ganesha%20Mantra.wma
I burned it on a CD and my computer and I kept it on Repeat 1 until I could hear it in my sleep...I literally would listen to it all night long...
You see, those sounds changed my life...
In 2004, I was searching the Internet for free downloadable meditative music in order to raise my vibrational level. I was working for a corporation in the IT department in a cubicle for 9 hours a day, under the fluorescent lights, 20 years with the same company.
My vibrational level was very low.
I was not happy.
I started there in January 1985, and almost 20 years later, I could feel the another 20 years slipping away from me. I was in an unhappy marriage and I guess more than anything, all my little kid notions of what I would be when I grew up had been squashed under a life that strangely resembled some of the trappings of my parents' life.
I attracted similar circumstances.
They say, what you resist, persists...
I would put my headphones on at work and let the same minute-long clip play over and over all day.
I remember being on a business trip in Mexico and playing The Ganapati Mantra all through the night and during my yoga practice the next morning.
And on the plane.
On a cd, so I could listen in the car.
The same mantra, over and over.
This went on for months.
I can only describe it as a feeling like being bathed by sound.
The same sound, over and over.
And something started happening.
I can only describe it as an awakening.
I started singing along. I felt such peace and joy, I cannot describe it. Peace and joy sound like Christmas holiday words. Joy? Peace?
It feels like a moment stretching out in all directions. Not happiness, something deeper and without words.
No thinking, only this incredible expanding feeling so complete.
Only a big Now.
Totally pleasant.
I still get emotional when I sing this.
The more I sang, the more I felt a fearlessness welling up from within.
I found the strength to leave a miserable marriage and a miserable job.
Now, whenever the spirit moves me, I will ask, "Can I sing to you?"
Even to people I don't know.
I have sung to a woman with breast cancer, a friend with leukemia, a friend struggling with the death of his mother, a man with Parkinson's, a woman with advanced diabetes facing losing her legs, a survivor of violent war conflict, PTSD, as well as people who just needed transportation to a part of themselves where deep peace exists...
I am not the same person I was. I am singing! I used to imagine singing to people, but never thought I would do it.
I feel like myself now.
Please know that sound can change someone's life.
And know this, I have discovered the gift of singing from the heart.
When people sing and make divine sounds, I believe the sound waves ripple outward.
I wonder, where do the waves end?
Let me help you raise your vibration.
Danny Living