Ganapathi Bhagavan, a bachelor by choice

Let us look in to why Ganapathi Bhagavan never got married and prefers to remain as a bachelor by choice.

 

Like all children, Ganapathi Bhagavan also was a mischievous child. He had lot of energy and was very playful. One day after playing with his brother Subramanya swami for a long time, he was tired and was resting for a while. At that time a kitten came to play with him. Even though he was tired, he did not want to disappoint the kitten and played with him for some time. Then he wanted to take rest and the kitten was in the best of mood to play. So he was bothering him too much and Ganapathy Bhagavan was irritated and angry and in his anger, he scratched the kitten on his face. He was very scared and ran for his life crying.

 

After some time Ganapathi Bhagavan was hungry and went to his mother for some food. He saw that his mother Sri Parvathi's face had several scratches and blood was oozing out of them. He was very upset and asked

 

" Mother, what happened? Who did this to you? Did you fall? "

 

Sri Parvathy said, "Dear son, you did this to me. Didn't you scratch the innocent kitten on his face in your anger? It hurt me and these are the marks you made on her.

 

 She continued,

 

"Vinaayaka, I live in every living and non-living entity (both chethanam and achethanam ) in this universe and when you hurt anybody, you are hurting me. So when you scratched that kitten it hurt me because my divine energy is the life giving force in that kitten too."

 

Ganapathi Bhagavan was very sorry for what he did and apologized to his mother. Since then he saw everybody as his own mother's reflection. How can he marry somebody whom he saw as his mother? There was none in this world whom he could think in another form. So the desire to get married never occurred in his mind and until this day he remains a bachelor.

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