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Lord Ganesh The Hindu ICON
for the human’s Problem Solving Function
The problem solving (or
obstacle removing) function, and which the Hindus have imagined (i.e. formed)
and named as the deity Ganesh, is a sub-function of the Basic Operating System
of all living creatures. As basic, hence vital sub-function, the Lord Ganesh
(‘Lord’ because all powerful over surface, that is to say, ego functions) is
ever ready – as all pervading presence – for action. Ganesh activates (or is
intentionally activated) whenever a problem needs to be resolved or an
obstacle overcome. In order to be able to
intentionally access and activate the basic and vital problem solving
function, and which operates in the unconscious, it is imagined (i.e. imaged,
i.e. projected upon the screen of consciousness) in a personalised (or
culturally preferred) form. That form (and name), as image or icon (hence as
a symbol of everyday language), serves as (hyper-) link to the (formless,
nameless, because operating in biological ‘machine’ language, hence)
unconscious sub-function. In the case of Ganesh, the
form (or hyper-link) is theriomorphic (i.e. having animal features), hence
deliberately made irrational. The irrational is superimposed on the imagined
form of the innate problem solving function (i.e. Ganesh) to create downtime
in (that is to say, to disable or halt) the human’s rational, critical
function, thus facilitating easier access to that unconscious function (and
which operates as part of the human’s Basic Operating System, i.e. the
BOS(S), elsewhere named brahman, elsewhere atman, elsewhere prajapati.
See the 2nd to 5th Brahmanas of the Brhad-aranyaka
Upanishad). |
