Stories on Moral values relating Ganesh worship are found in Mudgal and Ganesh Puranas. These stories describe dangers arising out of psychological states of mind and suggest remedies by changing ways of life.

Image of Ganesh is a combination of an elephant's head with long trunk and one single tooth and a human body. This form seems unusual for a God. This image is actually a visual representation of biophysical map of human nervous system.

Visualize the brain and spinal cord along with various sensitive plexus on it. Does it not look familiar? Of course, it looks like Lord Ganesh. This map is intended to facilitate activation of nervous plexus and also to stimulate dormant power in human body. The ancient scriptures describe harnessing of mental power by focussing mind on such images.

Atharvashirsha is a superhuman composition. Application of Yogic and Tantric tecniques are skillfully in built in the text of Atharvashirsha itself.

• Yoga tries to restructure and refine our thinking process to ensure successful and enlightened life.
• Tantra uses phonetics to stimulate dormant power of inner mind by stimulating various plexus along the nervous system.

The stimulation and activation of nervous centers brings enlightenment and pleasure. Mediation on these lines can give our soul (Atma) access to super-consciousness (Paramatma). Our mind gets tuned to the basic entities of the creation namely:

While Ganesh is the visual representation of the divine mental power, Omkar is its phonetic form.

Mystic symbol Om represents 4 states of existence viz. A, U, M and a point.

A -> stands for the physical outer world,

U -> stands for the subtle inner self, a interpretation of outer world in our mind

M -> stands for mass of mere consciousness, sense of existence, the edge between the known & unknown

the point -> represents infinity, the mysterious universe beyond human knowledge

 4) Omkar & Atharvashirsha

The theory of Omkar from Mandukya Upanishada manifests in the text of Atharva shirsha. Recitation of Atharvashirsha with proper understanding of this application educates and refines our mind.

 Scientific application of all above techniques and their use in our daily activities secures for us accomplished life in every respect. I have tried to explain this in my forthcoming English book, titled Ganesh Vidnyan- Science and Technology.

Stories in Mudgal Purana are metaphorical. They describe nuances of human mind and suggest ways to handle them. It is also interesting to compare Mudgal Purana with works of Shakespeare, which also depict various facets of human mind. I have attempted this in my new forthcoming English book, titled Shakespeare on the crossroad of Indian civilisation.