shiva card 34

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❤️  NANDI GAN ❤️

It was dusk, darkening into a starry night, when Shiva awoke. He looked out of His window to see Nandi, His bull seated on the porch.

The vahans were an interesting thing. They were the transporters of Gods. Something more personalized than just a chariot, they were a sort of companion to the God they served. Asides from their ability to transport, they were a good parameter to gauge the time of the day—starting from animals, they morphed themselves into other beasts, humans, denizens and sometimes even metal or other elements. The more sophisticated ones could evaporate into ether form and travel into the future. So, one could gauge the era by observing the kind of technology that the vahan had. 

Nandi was Shiva’s vahan.He was His most faithful attendant.

Nandi  had the body of a human but the head of a bull. To make matters more intricate, the human part was built like a bull; the finest and most steely physique, and the bull head could think in the wisest manner possible. It was like magic. But then, that’s what the denizens of the jungle were. Magical creatures.

And Nandi had been declared by Shiva as the chief denizen, the Top Gana. Nandi was His best friend, His loyal devotee, and His vehicle for transport, all rolled into one.

He was Shiva’s ride, so to speak, but even when they were not journeying, Nandi would seat himself at the outer gates of Shiva’s chamber; He thought of himself as a guard, and was indeed, the most formidable obstacle to anyone who wanted to reach Shiva.

He was never off duty.

Once when Shiva joked with him about his snores that were louder than the roar of many creatures, Nandi had replied, “Even when I walk the streets of dreamworld, I proclaim Shiva as the Supreme Master of the universe, and whose chosen gana I am.”