The story of Ganesha and Karthikeya fighting for 'jnAna' fruit is a familiar one. The basic story is like this.
Shiva and Shakti want to give a 'fruit' of jnAna/wisdom to their sons. But the challenge is it cannot be apportioned or divided between them. It has to be given completely and hence to only one of them. So they hold a challenge. Whoever comes around the Universe first, they would get the jnAna fruit completely.
Karthikeya mounts his peacock and goes around the Universe. Ganesha simply goes around his parents and claims that parents are his Universe. Ganesha gets the jnAna fruit.
This story is interpreted in various ways with different philosophical masks and meanings. I see this story differently. I think it is interpreted as a 'story' from scientific explanation of a physical event that happens everyday.
Shiva is energy. Shakti is Momentum.
The 'fruit' that they are giving is 'Entropy' (information, knowledge, jnAna). Who will get jnAna the entropy, when energy is added..?
Ganesha is potential energy which manifests as 'phase-change energy'. Karthikeya is motional energy (Kinetic) which manifests as heat measured by temperature.
When energy is added to a system, it can manifest as potential (phase change energy) or manifest as heat (raise in temperature).
When it manifests as phase change energy, it breaks the bonds between molecules, changes the phase of matter and increases overall entropy (information content) of the system. This is what happens say when ice turns into water. Here energy is spent in increasing entropy as it manifests as potential (phase change) energy.
When it manifests as higher motional energy of molecules increasing the temperature of the system, energy is spent in increasing the temperature of the system and not the information content or entropy.
Hence Ganesha gets the jnAna and not kArthikeya.
Simplistically, if one gets additional energy, then they can use it to break their existing bonds, get into a new phase and thus increase their knowledge. That is like Ganesha.
They can also use it to simply get excited, jump up and down, raise their heat with little increase in their knowledge. That is like Karthikeya.
Who will get jnAna..? Obviously who are like Ganesha
-TBT
Shiva and Shakti want to give a 'fruit' of jnAna/wisdom to their sons. But the challenge is it cannot be apportioned or divided between them. It has to be given completely and hence to only one of them. So they hold a challenge. Whoever comes around the Universe first, they would get the jnAna fruit completely.
Karthikeya mounts his peacock and goes around the Universe. Ganesha simply goes around his parents and claims that parents are his Universe. Ganesha gets the jnAna fruit.
This story is interpreted in various ways with different philosophical masks and meanings. I see this story differently. I think it is interpreted as a 'story' from scientific explanation of a physical event that happens everyday.
Shiva is energy. Shakti is Momentum.
The 'fruit' that they are giving is 'Entropy' (information, knowledge, jnAna). Who will get jnAna the entropy, when energy is added..?
Ganesha is potential energy which manifests as 'phase-change energy'. Karthikeya is motional energy (Kinetic) which manifests as heat measured by temperature.
When energy is added to a system, it can manifest as potential (phase change energy) or manifest as heat (raise in temperature).
When it manifests as phase change energy, it breaks the bonds between molecules, changes the phase of matter and increases overall entropy (information content) of the system. This is what happens say when ice turns into water. Here energy is spent in increasing entropy as it manifests as potential (phase change) energy.
When it manifests as higher motional energy of molecules increasing the temperature of the system, energy is spent in increasing the temperature of the system and not the information content or entropy.
Hence Ganesha gets the jnAna and not kArthikeya.
Simplistically, if one gets additional energy, then they can use it to break their existing bonds, get into a new phase and thus increase their knowledge. That is like Ganesha.
They can also use it to simply get excited, jump up and down, raise their heat with little increase in their knowledge. That is like Karthikeya.
Who will get jnAna..? Obviously who are like Ganesha
-TBT