NANDI-SHIVA’S VEHICLE

Nandi, the bull, is regarded to be Shiva’s vehicle. Nandi is a symbolism of eternal waiting, because waiting is considered to be the greatest virtue in Indian culture. One who knows how to simply sit and wait is naturally meditative. He is not expecting Shiva to come out tomorrow. He will wait forever. That quality is the essence of receptivity.

Nandi is Shiva’s closest accomplice because he is the essence of receptivity. Before we go into a temple, you must have the quality of Nandi – to simply sit.  We are not trying to go to heaven, we are not trying to get this or that – we go inside and simply sit. So, just by sitting here, he is telling us that when we go in, we should not do fanciful things, instead we should simply sit like him.



Dr. Puneet Chawla further examines the nature of Nandi and says that he does not wait in anticipation or expectation. He is just waiting. That’s meditation – just sitting. That’s his message for us, to simply go inside and sit alert and erect and not be in a sleep mode.

Dr. Chawla says that people have always misunderstood meditation as some kind of activity. However, it is not an activity, it is a quality. That is a fundamental difference between the two. Prayer means we are trying to talk to God. We are trying to tell him our vows, our expectations, or whatever else. Meditation means we are willing to just listen to existence, to the ultimate nature of creation. We have nothing to say, but simply listen. That is the quality of Nandi – he just sits all alert. He is not sleepy or sitting in a passive way. He is sitting very active, full of alertness and life, but no expectation or anticipation. That is meditation. Just waiting, not for anything in particular.

If we just wait without doing your own thing, the existence will do its thing. Meditation essentially means the individual person is not doing his own thing. He is just there. Once we are simply there, we become aware of the larger dimension of the existence, which is always in action. We become aware that we are a part of it.  Nandi is the symbolism of that. He reminds everyone that we must sit like him.

Dr. Chawla says that Nandi at Dhyanalinga is probably the only Nandi made in this very unique way. Small pieces of metal, each one not more than six to nine inches in size, were put together to form the surface. Inside, it is filled with sesame seeds, turmeric, vibhuti the sacred ash, certain types of oils, some sand, and certain other types of soil. It took some 20 tons of material to fill it. Then it was sealed. The whole concoction has been prepared in a certain way. This makes the bull radiate a certain field of energy.

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