Lord Ganesha is known as Vighneśvara, an obstacle-giver. Do you think the Lord would ever be an obstacle-giver? Yes! He is an obstacle-giver. Why would He give obstacles?
It is like you are asking the fire: "Why did you burn my hand? Why did you burn my finger?" Te fire says: "I did not burn your finger." "But you did! Look at my finger! You burnt my finger!" Te fire says: "I would never do something like that to you or anyone. I did not burn your finger. Who asked you to put your finger into me? If you put your finger into me, your finger will be burnt. If you did not put your finger into me, it would not be burnt."
Iśvara says: "I am impartial to the results of your actions. But when you act against the law of karma (the law of the universe), your own actions burn you."
Te Devataās are not doers, they do not do anything. Te Lord is not a doer. Iśvara is säkșī, a witness. Te universe behaves in accordance with the cosmic laws. Iśvara is the lawgiver. He is a karma-phala-datā, the giver of the results of one's actions. He is a witness to all activity. He is not a doer. Lord Krishna says in the 4th chapter of the Gita: "O Arjunal Tere is nothing I do."
Tere is nothing to be done. What is human life? We think, that there is so much to be done. But there is nothing to be done. Te laws of the universe will work for all those, who are born into the universe. It all depends on how we use these laws:
If we create disharmony in our karma, in our doership, in our doinghood, then the results of our action is going to lead to disharmony. IfI create obstacles for others, the result for me is also going to be obstacles. What I give out comes back to me. Te universe will only reflect, what I have given out to it and therefore- as a karma-phala-dātā, a lawgiver the Lord is a giver of obstacles, vighnarājā. Te laws of the universe work accurately: If you do this, then that is the consequence. Who created this consequence for this doing? Te lawgiver did.
He is the giver of the consequences of my karma. So is he really the giver of obstacles? Ask him. "No", He will say. "T did not do anything. I am a witness to all karmas. I am not a doer. My svarūpa, my essence, is Universal Light. I don't do anything. Te doer is the enjoyer." But you still say: "No, no, clear my obstacles!
