{"id":15740,"date":"2021-08-19T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/?p=15740"},"modified":"2021-08-19T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:33:54","slug":"prepare-for-ganeshas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/prepare-for-ganeshas-birthday","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for Ganesha&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Prepare for Ganesha\u2019s birthday by joining the Pillai Center Ganesha chanting challenge to reach a million chants by his birthday on Sept. 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/specials\/month-of-ganesha\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganeshaa-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Prepare for Ganesha's Birthday\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganeshaa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganeshaa-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganeshaa-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganeshaa.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The Significance of Ganesha\u2019s Birthday<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The birthday of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ganesha\">Ganesha<\/a> is just around the corner, beginning on September 9, 2021, in the US. It is considered one of the most important Archetypal birthdays of each year. According to the Siddhas, there are two main reasons for this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Pillai and the Siddhas teach that Ganesha is the personification of the preeminent, primordial consciousness, OM, and that his birthday is when you can \u201cbirth\u201d that supreme intelligence and energy into your conscious identity.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ganesha offers himself through spiritual surrogate technology to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> change your destiny<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As OM, he represents the ultimate sacrificial being and thus offers the greatest potential to transform your karmic destiny.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Join the Pillai Center Community Ganesha Chanting Challenge<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help the world prepare for the descent of Ganesha\u2019s karma-transforming, destiny-changing energy during his birthday powertime, you are invited to join the Pillai Center Community Ganesha Chanting Challenge which is currently taking place through September 8, 2021, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/specials\/month-of-ganesha\"><b>at this link<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we become more in tune with Ganesha, we are better able to receive his grace and birth his archetypal energy into our conscious individual and global identity, to bring super intelligence and a new destiny to the world as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The more people who join together to invoke Ganesha, the greater impact it has for every participant and the world. Each person who joins multiplies the collective total of chants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are currently nearing the 600,000 chant count and the count is growing daily!<\/strong> Be a part of this worldwide movement by joining<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the Ganesha chanting challenge to help us reach one million chants by his birthday on September 9, 2021. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/specials\/month-of-ganesha#daily-chanting\"><b>You can see the current chant count and join in on this page.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our goal is to tune ourselves and the collective to Ganesha\u2019s seed mantra, OM GUM, in preparation for the transformation his birthday powertime can bring. You can chant on your own or join the group for added benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href='https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/specials\/month-of-ganesha#daily-chanting' class='big-button bigblue' target=\"_blank\">JOIN THE CHALLENGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>How to Become Second to None and Compress Time<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a recent webinar, Dr. Pillai revealed the two special forms of Ganesha that will be most active for his 2021 birthday. 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