GANESHA & THE SERPENT:- In the images & pictorial representations Ganesha is seen wearing a serpent girdle around his life shoulder like a sacred thread. This cold blooded reptile gives Ganesha a look of aversion. But this is a meaningful detail which cannot be avoided in his make up. In the set up of one of the seals of the Indus Valley, there is the figure of a yogi flanked on either side by two suppliants with the figure of a serpent standing erect on its tail. The date seal may be between 4000 B.C. & 3000 B.C. Similarly in one of the relics of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization there is the find of a goblet used by king Gudea of Lagash in connection with some fertility rite. On this goblet among other figures is seen a figure of two serpents entwined in an amorous embrace. This goblet is said to belong to a period round about 2500 BC. GANESHA & YOGA:- Yoga is not worship; nor it a sacrifice to propitiate a Deity. The word yoga comes from the root ‘yug’ which follows: “Having controlled all senses with the mind, the idea of unity of the self, with the supreme self within, is yoga.” Accoeding to Bhagavath Githa, yoga is the mind getting merged with the soul within, freeing itself from all attachments that bring about pain. The yoga sutra says that it is restraint of mental modifications or control of thought waves in mind. This book is placed in the hands of the readers of the readers by the author in all humility as a humble tribute to Ganesha. GANESHA THE SUMUKHA:- The elephant-faced-Deity of the Hindus known popularly as Ganesha has intrigued all thinking men all over the world, all through the ages even unto the present day. Thay are puzzled as to how a cultured calss of people going by the name of Hindus could have denigrated themselves by worshipping this funny looking elephant-faced-Deity giving him an eminent status in their pantheon. You go anywhere in India you will find him in the Hindu temples, thoroughfares, public parks, public parks, pavements, bathing ghats & even on hill tops & wherever the Hindus went they took with them this Deity & secured for him a status not less than what he held in the country of his origin.