A prototype of nature

%In sometimes past a thought came to the mind of great people, why they were not adorning this nature, encompassing all the commodities essential for our livelihood – Air, water, sunlight, soil and whatnot. However worshiping the large quantum of various components of nature was not practical for a single man.%

Visionary Artists played a great role in solving this quandary. They put forth an idea about bringing the whole cosmos into a sheet of stone or on a rock, enclosing all elements of this macrocosm. Gradually they started articulating about what all must be entailed in the drawing. So they dived onto the laps of the mother nature.

They unearthed the following:

The five elements of life or the Panch tatva: Ether (Akash), Wind (Vayu), Fire (Agni), Water (Jal) and Earth (Prithvi). These are the simple/austere cardinal building blocks of everything and anything in this complex elegant universe.

The two major celestial bodies, the Sun and the Moon, in respect of earthly life.
The divine element or the fundamental unit of life – the Carbon and so on.

To put some godly sensation to the depiction, they pondered the idea of personification.

So they limned the picture incorporating all the elements and the delineation showed up as:

They illustrated the Sun and the Moon in the eyes.

Fire the executioner has been concealed in the third eye positioned at the centre of forehead or the Bhru madhyam, which is kept closed as a sign of peace.

The galaxy of life or the Milky Way in a whole human form, the Ganga as a woman, depicted as water flowing from the pinnacle of head, explains the flow of life.

The Matted Hair or the Jhada represents the Wind or Vayu.

The skin of a dead tiger as his clothes and the world’s largest venomous snake the king cobra around his neck is to give importance to other creatures that are as importance as humans with those whom we share this world.

The whole soma(body) is covered with bhasma or the ash procured after burning a human body, in scientific terms, the Carbon. 

The dark complexion, as it is personified, depicts the colour of the outer space or it signifies nothingness and also its potential to attract anything towards it.

The crescent moon on his head, the rudraksha beads, snake around his neck as ornaments signifies the simplicity and the beauty of this complex mother nature.

Scientifically speaking, the Rudraksha beads show incredible powers because of their electromagnetic character. This endows the beads to emit inductive vibrations with frequencies measured in units of Henry (Volt Seconds/Ampere). These impulses stimulate certain brain chemicals, thus healing the body medically.

A prototype of the universe was hence created in a human form and is avowed as Shiva meaning nothingness.