In English
Inner significance of in from of
In temples of (or ), you find (image of bull) in front of the deity. What is the inner significance of this? The usual reply you get is that is the (vehicle) of ; 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 the is the symbol of the Lord (), (bull) is the symbol for (individual soul). Therefore, just like the , man should turn away from and direct all his attention towards only. There are some more meanings for this symbolism. For instance, it is said that no one should stand between and . One should have the vision of by looking through the space in between the two ears of . The underlying idea is that through the of using its ears to listen about alone, the animality in the bull becomes transformed into divinity and because of its merger with it is called (Bull-God). Thus the lesson of the symbolism is that man should also try to merge with God, by following the example of the .