In the Hindu religion Ganesha is considered to be the one who grants success, so I conclude he is the lord of Success. As we all know success elusive and to me so is the understanding of the same.
To the one who is presumably successful nothing succeeds like success but to most of the others who have not seemed to come across it "success" would be relative.
My query for some time has been why is Ganesha the Lord of success? Ones who are familiar with his picture are aware that he is grossly overweight, has the head of the elephant and an expression on his face that could be described as benevolent.
Few days back I got my answer, it is said as the story goes according to the holy scriptures that when he was just a lad one day he happened to come across a cat, now before that he might not have had a sighting of the same. As little boys do, he teased and tortured this new being that he saw till the cat finally managed to escape. When he went back to his holy abode he was shocked to see his mother 'Parvati' bruised pretty badly- and in all the same places he had bruised the thing called cat. His mother explained that what ever his actions were they would have an affect/effect on his near and dear ones and also on the others who were placed far and away.
Now if as a small boy he understood this profound truth which most of us don’t get no matter how powerfully we are placed or if we are at the edge of an abyss just as we are in the present times, we would never know what success is and only very few deserve to understand and realize success just as Ganesha has.