Shri Ganesh wrote Mahabharat

Lord Ganesh is the son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. He is the younger brother of Lord Kartikey. He is the God of Wisdom, positivity, new beginnings and he is the remover of obstacles (Vighnaharta). He is widely worshipped, the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is dedicated to him. Also, the prays are always incomplete without his worship. He is worshipped first in Puja. Shri Ganesh wrote epic Mahabharat as told by Shri Ved Vyas.

After the great War of Mahabharata, as it is known, there was widespread destruction and a large portion of the world population had died. Cities and civilizations vanished due to the use of celestial weapons by the Warriors in the great War. This war also inadvertently led to the destruction and loss of ancient knowledge because many of the great teachers, who were apostles of the ancient knowledge, also died in the war. After witnessing all this destruction, Ved Vyas decided to write all that he knew of the ancient knowledge and history for the benefit of mankind.

The original text written by Ved Vyas was called Jaya and consists of the 4 Vedas and the great epic of Mahabharata. The Vedas are the collection of all the ancient knowledge known to him while the Mahabharata was a historical account of all events that take place from the beginning of Treta Yug when Manu, the grandson of the mother of Gods Aditi, was sent to Earth to establish the human race, to the end of Dwapar Yug after the culmination of the great War and establishment of the final kingdom under King Parikshit as the ruler of the entire great subcontinent of India spreading from modern day Afghanistan to Cambodia and Vietnam including Tibet in North and the islands of Sri Lanka & Indonesia in South. Further a lot of territories and kingdoms across Asia, Europe and Africa used to pay obeisance to the Kingdom of Bharat.

Despite all the respect we have for Ved Vyas, it may be noted that he was the last of the great Rishis but was not the greatest of them all. Hence the knowledge imparted by him is significant but not complete and that is one of the reasons why it is so difficult to understand the Vedas which are like the fountain of our knowledge. To draw a comparison, you can think of a situation in which after a large-scale nuclear war in the current world, only a few noble laureates who survived the war are required to write the entire body of modern scientific knowledge.

They will be masters of some subjects but not all. Further, they will only end up writing the results, theorems, formulas and theories but not their proofs are explanations. They will end up drawing figures of various instruments but will not be able to provide large-scale CAD drawings of the same. They will mention about many species of plants and animals by the name but will not provide photographs or details of the same. The Vedas are exactly that. They contain the results or theorems or formulas but do not provide the proofs or the necessary thesis to explain the same. Further many of the Shlokas go beyond the limits of the modern body of scientific knowledge and transcend into quantum and metaphysics.

In fact, the version available is the recorded version of the narration of the original Mahabharata written by Ved Vyas through one of his 4 disciples, Vaishampayana, who narrates this for the benefit of King Janmenjaya, who was the great-grandson of Arjun and the only survivor of the Kuru race, who becomes the first King of the land of Bharat in Kalyug after the untimely death of his father, King Parikshit, at the hands of the Naga King Takshak. King Janmejaya actually requests to know the history of his race and the events that led to the death of his father. This is why the version that we know, has selective portions of the Mahabharata which were important to answer the request of the King.

A team of scientists and scholars under the able guidance and chairmanship of our beloved late President of India, Shri APJ Abdul Kalam, has placed the Battle of Mahabharata and the end of Dwapar Yug, a little more than 3000 years before the birth of Christ (BC). The documents mentioned by our dear friend had a little over 1000 years before the birth of Christ (BC). The complete original copies of this version of Mahabharata were available in the great libraries of Takshashila, Nalanda, Puri and Pataliputra, simply because of the volume of the text. Other libraries and institutions (both educational and religious) maintained portions relevant to their use and are largely incomplete.

We all know that the great library at Takshashila was destroyed by the invasion of Alexander, who ordered burning of the same. Another set of the original texts were destroyed by King Nanda of Pataliputra because Chanakya’s father Chanak was preaching Mahabharata to the citizens to create awareness of fighting for their rights instead of waiting for their doom. The king ordered the execution of Chanak and the burning of the original text of Mahabharata.

It was only after King Nanda was overthrown and Chandragupta Maurya went on to defeat Alexander under the able guidance of his guru Chanakya, to establish a unified Indian Empire, that the Mahabharata was rewritten purely from memory. These events followed by the final destruction of the 2 remaining great libraries of India at Nalanda and Puri during the time of Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb is the reason for the present-day confusion between the events depicted in various versions of Mahabharata.

Interestingly the original version of the Mahabharata composed by Ved Vyas and scribed by Lord Ganesha, is possibly resting safe somewhere in the Himalayas, as no one saw it including the 4 disciples of Ved Vyas, who were imparted with the knowledge of "Jaya" and were made to promise that they would not divulge this knowledge before the last of the characters mentioned in the history catalogued in Mahabharata had passed away. This also raises a question, whether he had taken this promise to ensure that he was able to hide certain facts of the past or was he simply trying to save humiliation to the characters who had survived the war. Om Shri Ganeshay Namah