TOUGHIANS ( SHIV GANAS )
Sometimes, Rudra would go down to the greenlands between the mountains and the forest, where some really large animals lazed for hours on end. He loved it when even these animals, ‘the big boys’, were friendly. The oxen, in particular were huge and very strong, but whenever Rudra looked into their eyes, He would sense, a gentleness. “This is the way to be,” He thought again. “Gentle at heart no matter how strong you are.” One day, He wondered how much they weighed, and if He could actually lift one of them up. Closing up to a really huge ox, He gently put His hands below the ox’s stomach, and started to lift him in the air. He managed to lift him till His own waist, and then slowly dropped him back on the grass. The ox, in turn bowed his head and rammed himself into Rudra, albeit gently, sending Him rolling on the grass.
Rudra understood this was in play, and sure enough, in the days that followed, this game of affection and strength testing became a routine.
One day, as He saw the herd of oxen approaching the greenlands, He noticed a head above the rest, almost as if a man were walking erect. It was a strange sight. This thing, it was like a man; it had the body of a man, but it was built like a bull. The chest must have easily been among the largest that Rudra had ever seen. When the humongous creature came right next to Him and thrust its face forward, Rudra noted that it did certainly have the face of a bull. There were two magnificent horns on the robust head. The bull smiled, displaying pearly white teeth. But what shocked Rudra almost out of His skin was when He heard “Namaste Rudra.” The bull actually spoke to Him! It was His first encounter with a Minotaur.
“You speak?” Rudra uttered, feeling somewhat silly for asking the obvious, only to reconfirm it. He actually couldn’t believe what He had heard.
“Yes, I learnt your language, my Lord,” replied the Minotaur.
“My Lord? You know me? We know each other?” asked Rudra.
“I know of you, and I have always wanted to know you, and be with you as my Lord,” replied the Minotaur.
“And why is that?” asked Rudra.
“Because I want the best for myself,” replied the Minotaur, flexing his chest to its enormous fullest. “I want to be the best friend of the best Being in the cosmos, nothing less. For I am Nandi,” He thundered. “Nandi, the strongest Minotaur that has ever been, will ever be, and I, Nandi, will serve only the greatest Lord as my Master and best friend.”
( From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.)
Rudra understood this was in play, and sure enough, in the days that followed, this game of affection and strength testing became a routine.
One day, as He saw the herd of oxen approaching the greenlands, He noticed a head above the rest, almost as if a man were walking erect. It was a strange sight. This thing, it was like a man; it had the body of a man, but it was built like a bull. The chest must have easily been among the largest that Rudra had ever seen. When the humongous creature came right next to Him and thrust its face forward, Rudra noted that it did certainly have the face of a bull. There were two magnificent horns on the robust head. The bull smiled, displaying pearly white teeth. But what shocked Rudra almost out of His skin was when He heard “Namaste Rudra.” The bull actually spoke to Him! It was His first encounter with a Minotaur.
“You speak?” Rudra uttered, feeling somewhat silly for asking the obvious, only to reconfirm it. He actually couldn’t believe what He had heard.
“Yes, I learnt your language, my Lord,” replied the Minotaur.
“My Lord? You know me? We know each other?” asked Rudra.
“I know of you, and I have always wanted to know you, and be with you as my Lord,” replied the Minotaur.
“And why is that?” asked Rudra.
“Because I want the best for myself,” replied the Minotaur, flexing his chest to its enormous fullest. “I want to be the best friend of the best Being in the cosmos, nothing less. For I am Nandi,” He thundered. “Nandi, the strongest Minotaur that has ever been, will ever be, and I, Nandi, will serve only the greatest Lord as my Master and best friend.”
( From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.)
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