Lord Ganesha has so wonderfully and beautifully through his own example, showed his complete faith in the name of God. And in this way, he is an acharya because he is teaching us by his example, the goal of life to have complete faith in the name of God. So therefore, we understand that he is a demigod and he is empowered to give material benedictions to those who approach him for that. But that does not please him. The demigods are never pleased by those who ask for material benedictions. They have to give it, if you give them the proper service. But they are pleased when they see a person approaching them for the supreme goal of life, prema pumartha mahan which is love of God.
So, therefore it is only really the devotees who really give pleasure and worship to the great demigods, because the devotees are satisfying the real desires of the demigods. The demigods want to see everyone go back home, back to Godhead. The gopis worshipped Goddess Durga to have Krishna as their husband not because they wanted to enjoy Krishna but they wanted to completely surrender their lives for Krishna’s enjoyment. So, in this way if we really want to offer the ultimate glory in service for the pleasure of Lord Ganapati, the greatest thing you can do is glorify his divine qualities as a pure devotee of the Lord and be inspired by those divine qualities and not simply ask him like a businessman ‘give me this and give me that,’ but we offer him our love on the basis of the great inspiration he is giving us. He has given us the Vedas and he has given us such a wonderful example of an acharya and therefore, if we really want to please him, we will ask him to help us to please the object of his love.
And then, we can really understand from the point of view of what Krishna is speaking in this verse of Bhagavad-Gita, from the point of view of being above the three modes of material nature, from the point of view of striving for the conclusion of all knowledge, utter surrender to the feet of God, from that point of view, we can understand our relationship with such great, empowered souls. From the transcendental point of view that Krishna is pleading with us to come to, we can accept everything favourable for devotional service and reject everything unfavourable. Increase of material attachments is unfavourable. Development of the service attitude, of the loving devotional attitude is utterly favourable. So, let this be our real desire in life and then our lives will be perfect. When you water the root of the tree, all parts of the tree are nourished. When we satisfy Krishna, who says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate that He is the source and the root of everything. By that process every demigod, every living being is ultimately satisfied, because He is the root of all.
