Feeling unlucky on Friday the 13th?? Tune into the energy of the Hindu deity Ganesh...he is said to bring luck, wealth, and good fortune. He is known as the "remover of obstacles" ~ but beware...he is also known to place obstacles in the paths of those who need to slow down and pay attention! A way to connect with and/or focus on divine aspects of a particular deity is through chanting a mantra.
There are many chants to Ganesh, but a simple and powerful one is this:
Om gam ganapataye namaha!
A very loose translation might be:
Om = Salutations! Everyone wake up!
Gam = The secret power sound of Ganesh. It is his "seed syllable" or bija mantra.
Ganapataye = Another name of Ganesh, the breaker of obstacles.
Namaha = Yo! Ganesh! You da God!
The pronunciation is pretty easy:
Om = ohm or aum
Gam = Somewhere between "gahm" and "gum". In some dialects it is "guhng".
Ganapataye = gah-nah-paht-ah-yeh
Namaha - nah-mah-hah
*some info copied from http://indopaganproject.tripod.com/id22.html*
