Garbhopanishad

Garbhopanishad Preface Out of the total 1191 upanishadas 1000 pertain to Samved, 21 pertain to Rigved, 50 to Yajurved and 120 to Atharvaved. But only 108 Upanishadas are available. They again can be classified subject wise. Shankaracharya chose ten Upanishadas for his comments which were dealing with some philosophical principle such as - Isa, Ken, katha, Prana, Aitareya, Taitariya, Mundaka, Mandukya Chandogya and Vrihadaranyaka. There are others which deal with the divine deities such as Gayatri, Savitri, Sarasvati, Ganesha, Narayana, Rudra and so on. There are some upanishadas which are named after the rishi such as Maitreya, Shandilya, etc. But what we are going to discuss is the Garbhopanishad which is quite different, which talks about the science as well as the spirituality. Pippalad is the rishi of this Upanishad. Ganesh Sahastra nam also is prefixed with various divine names - Gana, Guna, Grantha, Gita, Go, Guru, Gotra, Gira etc. but eventually we find various divine names of Lord Ganesha on Garbha as well. Garbhaprada, Garbha trata, Garbha Santosha Sadhak are some of them. In fact these are the words by which the human body is formed, Lord Ganesha being the god of word principle. Gana

Process of Formation

Go

The budhi

Gira

Words

Geet

The Music

Guru

Remover of Maya

Garbha Eventual form I hope I am clear. Young married couples should chant this divine Ganesha Sahastra nam to get good and healthy babies. As usual one small experience. In Parthy when I was climbing the steps of Kalpa - vriksha one little boy who was selling the stickers of Baba’s photo put his sticker on my wrist watch. ‘I am all the time with you’ He said as if the watch is talking to you. When I went to sleep in the night, at any time of the night he is saying something. For him all twentyfour hours of the day some where on the earth at any given time he is being worshipped. I could hardly sleep that night. It was unbearable for me. Next day I removed the sticker saying to myself, one can not just discover him. He is in all the forms all the time. He is in all the names too. He is then the Sathya being in all the names and forms. When Baba used to play on the bank of Chitravati river along with the gopas, he has materialised so many things from the sand. Shri V. K. Gokak was fortunate to get an idol of Ganapati, which He materialised from the sand. In fact this is all explained in the Bhusukta but he being the Veda purusha could materialise all this. efJe