I try My best to convince Ganesha🔗

Because I never experienced the space of lack of integrity in My life, I simply trusted the speaker's integrity. I suddenly decided: I will also make My Ganesha eat!

And it was not just for the fun of it; I felt that because he had not been eating, he must have been very hungry all these days, and he must be really lean. At a young age, we learn from our parents that if you don't eat, you will die! I had learnt three or four things: if you don't eat, you will die; if you don't eat, some ghost will come and take you away; if you don't eat, a crow will come and make its droppings on your head! So I thought, "There may be a ghost possessing My Ganesha. Maybe he is sick; that is why he does not walk on his own and I have to pull him!"

Understand: when I heard the story, I decided, "I will also make My Ganesha eat." This is tarka, simple logic: when he made Ganesha eat, why not Me? It is simple tarka.

So I ran and told Ganesha, "Don't worry, from today I will give you food. You should eat it properly." Because he was more like a friend to Me, I started talking to him, "You should eat properly and you should be healthy." And I also thought, "He is a child Ganesha; he has to eat and become like the big Ganesha in the temple!" I would tell him, "Only because you are not eating, you are not growing!" That was My argument with him!

The temple Ganesha deity was five or six feet tall! Especially in the Arunachaleshwara temple, there is a very big Ganesha. His name is Sambandha Ganapathy! So I used to tell, "You should become like that Ganesha. Only if you eat properly, you will become like that Ganesha." I told this because My people used to say to Me, "Only if you eat, you will become big like us." So I also thought, "Only if Ganesha eats he will become big, like that Ganesha in the temple." I told him, "Don't worry, you eat, and I will build a temple like this for you." I think My commitment to Ganesha is why I am now building big-big temples and installing big-big Ganeshas! I am fulfilling My word to Ganesha!

But Ganesha was not eating. Maybe he heard Me, but he did not respond. For two or three days, I was sitting and convincing him about why he should eat. Maybe that was the time that matter was melting into Consciousness - meaning, the word was moving the world. By again and again saying, "Eat! You should eat!" to Ganesha, it became a declaration. When I started declaring again and again that he should eat, I think Ganesha also started giving his listening! Understand: when your declarations are very strong, even if there is a stone in front of you, it will listen!

Then I thought, "Maybe he did not like the cooking; he did not like the food."

See how kutarka works! Kutarka will say, "Everything is wrong except you!" Understand: that is kutarka. So I started thinking that maybe the food was not right; maybe My mother was not cooking properly.

Then I dropped the plan of feeding him that day, took him out and left him in the small temple which I had, and then I went to Arunachaleshwara temple. In the temple, they offer food to the deities every day. I thought that the food was actually eaten by the deities every day, so I went straight to the temple cook. I used to do a lot of voluntary work, like washing vessels and cleaning the floor in the temple. That was My only entertainment!

You all have a separate entertainment track, right? In My life, entertainment also was related to the temple only. Spiritual things were entertainment for Me. No cinema, no drama. I have never played goli (traditional Tamil game with marbles) or catapult with the boys! All children play these games, right? But there was no such play in My life. From birth, the purpose of having come was My only focus! For what purpose I came, only that I attended to. I did not attend to anything else. These things may seem like small things. But these are major components. If other boys are playing, there will be at least a natural inclination to play, right? There was no question of that. From then till now, only one relationship existed for Me – disciple! No other relationship! At that time also, the boys around Me were disciples only!

So I asked the cook, "Will you give Me a little food for My Ganesha?" He said, "Why only a little food? Take a lot!"