"In the temples of Eshwara (or Shiva), you find 'Nandi' (image of bull) in front of deity. What is the inner significance of this? The usual reply you get is that 'Nandi' is the 'Vahanam' (vehicle) of Eshwara, as if he could not afford to have a better vehicle than a bull.
This is a wrong idea. The truth is that just as 'Lingam' is the symbol of the Lord (Eshwara), 'Nandi' (bull) is the symbol for 'Jiva' (individual soul). Therefore, just like the Nandi, man should turn away from 'Prakriti' (the world) and direct all his attention towards Eshwara (God) only.
The bull on which Shiva is said to ride is not the animal by that name, but the symbol of Dharma (righteousness) which has four legs - Sathya (truth), Dharma (righteousness), Shanti (peace) and Prema (love)."
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It seems not too easy for the West to understand that. If we believe in science only and not in a living God, only the bull seem to be real and the one who is riding it is not known. It is the world of Maya (illusion). There are no answers on that level and no positivity. It means life doesn’t make any sense and also not what we do in life.
The bull corresponds also to the four ‘F’.
I would have given anything to get out of it, but I got just aware of it.
It must be a different experience if it is a bull or a tiger. Since I came back here I was constantly working on getting more knowledge about it and get closer to understanding the co-dependence between the body and Atman to understand that Shiva and Shakti power.
It has to do with the feminine side in a man and the masculine side in a woman and living in harmony with it.
If I got a hint in the dream of the brother doing the worst he can do, it has to do with that too.
He doesn’t know that he is riding a bull and that he has four legs, ignoring it he lives a freedom when the bull is getting free and he cannot rid it. There is that old Zen story of the ‘ten bulls’, the ‘ten ox herding pictures’. It shows in ten pictures the search of the soul and the understanding of Dharma to get to enlightenment. But even these pictures are difficult to understand if we have no notion of Dharma. In the beginning it is just following the track, the ox is wild and by following its track he just sees finally its back and by trying to catch it the herdsman or (cowboy) follows it into deepest abysses and highest mountain peaks until he can capture it. It starts a big struggle to tame it until he can ride the bull home.
It gives us a better understanding of it when we see the four legs of the bull, Sathya (truth), Dharma (righteousness), Shanti (peace), Prema (love). (Follow the master. Fight the devil. Fight to the end. Finish the game.)
To know the four legs of the bull helps to get aware of the difficulties on the path and it helps to understand the symbols.
Compared to my brother he doesn’t know of the existence of the bull, not searching for it, just reacting, following tracks resisting.
He is holding on to a material believe system which seems real – the rider and the bull doesn’t exist. He is calling Maya, illusion real and reality and God a life in the air, all upside down.
As the ‘unified field’ is always there, aware of it or not, in his mind it completes the family and the right of imposing ‘his ideas’ on everybody and people around him, but based on illusion only.
It is frustrating, only body level, it has no permanent or real value, therefore, it feels like lives in the past.
That family is the memory of it. He fights his own self in the past, finds answers which are no answers.
If we look at the example of the ten bulls he is about on the level where he saw the back of the bull and runs behind it going into the abyss tracing a trail, but at the same time in conflict with the bull because he saw only the back, it leads into an abyss, he doesn’t know what he is looking for, but he thinks he knows, telling me that it is all in the air looking at the high mountain peak, but he saw only the back of the bull.
Follow the master. Face the devil. Fight to the end. Finish the game.
There are four legs riding the bull home.
Whatever comes up on that path home, it belongs to that ride.
This is a wrong idea. The truth is that just as 'Lingam' is the symbol of the Lord (Eshwara), 'Nandi' (bull) is the symbol for 'Jiva' (individual soul). Therefore, just like the Nandi, man should turn away from 'Prakriti' (the world) and direct all his attention towards Eshwara (God) only.The bull on which Shiva is said to ride is not the animal by that name, but the symbol of Dharma (righteousness) which has four legs - Sathya (truth), Dharma (righteousness), Shanti (peace) and Prema (love)."
Baba
.png)
It seems not too easy for the West to understand that. If we believe in science only and not in a living God, only the bull seem to be real and the one who is riding it is not known. It is the world of Maya (illusion). There are no answers on that level and no positivity. It means life doesn’t make any sense and also not what we do in life.
Follow the master. Face the devil. Fight to the end. Finish the game. (Baba)
To understand oneness, unity, we have to get an experience of the sacred relationship between Lord Shiva and the bull.
I was sitting in a Baba Darshan and wondered very much because in the air was a tigress moving constantly back and forth like in a cage, as the animals do in the zoo. 
I would have given anything to get out of it, but I got just aware of it. It must be a different experience if it is a bull or a tiger. Since I came back here I was constantly working on getting more knowledge about it and get closer to understanding the co-dependence between the body and Atman to understand that Shiva and Shakti power.
It has to do with the feminine side in a man and the masculine side in a woman and living in harmony with it.
If I got a hint in the dream of the brother doing the worst he can do, it has to do with that too.
He doesn’t know that he is riding a bull and that he has four legs, ignoring it he lives a freedom when the bull is getting free and he cannot rid it. There is that old Zen story of the ‘ten bulls’, the ‘ten ox herding pictures’. It shows in ten pictures the search of the soul and the understanding of Dharma to get to enlightenment. But even these pictures are difficult to understand if we have no notion of Dharma. In the beginning it is just following the track, the ox is wild and by following its track he just sees finally its back and by trying to catch it the herdsman or (cowboy) follows it into deepest abysses and highest mountain peaks until he can capture it. It starts a big struggle to tame it until he can ride the bull home.
It gives us a better understanding of it when we see the four legs of the bull, Sathya (truth), Dharma (righteousness), Shanti (peace), Prema (love). (Follow the master. Fight the devil. Fight to the end. Finish the game.)
If we are not aware of the relationship between Atman and body and the work which has to be done to tame the wild bull, we can think it is ‘that easy’ as TM said and we just have to know how to ride the animal home, but that animal is wild and in one way or another it will get free again if we have not tamed it.
After riding it home the animal gets transcended, it is no more there and the enlightened mind has to return to the market place and society.To know the four legs of the bull helps to get aware of the difficulties on the path and it helps to understand the symbols.
Compared to my brother he doesn’t know of the existence of the bull, not searching for it, just reacting, following tracks resisting.
He is holding on to a material believe system which seems real – the rider and the bull doesn’t exist. He is calling Maya, illusion real and reality and God a life in the air, all upside down.
As the ‘unified field’ is always there, aware of it or not, in his mind it completes the family and the right of imposing ‘his ideas’ on everybody and people around him, but based on illusion only.
It is frustrating, only body level, it has no permanent or real value, therefore, it feels like lives in the past.
That family is the memory of it. He fights his own self in the past, finds answers which are no answers.
If we look at the example of the ten bulls he is about on the level where he saw the back of the bull and runs behind it going into the abyss tracing a trail, but at the same time in conflict with the bull because he saw only the back, it leads into an abyss, he doesn’t know what he is looking for, but he thinks he knows, telling me that it is all in the air looking at the high mountain peak, but he saw only the back of the bull.
Follow the master. Face the devil. Fight to the end. Finish the game.
There are four legs riding the bull home.
Whatever comes up on that path home, it belongs to that ride.
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