Height: 14.50 inDepth: 4.50 in Hindu Statues & Sculptures: Shiva Linga, Nataraja & Ganesha Statue Brass SculptureThis brass statue of Ardhanarishvara, the half male and half female form of Lord Shiva, is par excellence in its iconography and craftsmanship. It represents Lord Shiva in his half male and half female form, which Lord Shiva as Adishiva and Sadashiva has inherent in his being. It is not any kind of quaint anatomy or an artistic experimentalism of conciliating the ever-conflicting male and female elements into one being but the exposition of a well conceived cosmic principle and philosophy of being.This Ardhanarishvara form has to Osho, the most controversial and a totally different kind of thinker of the late 20th century, as great mystic and cosmic significance as it had during the days of Rigveda. The Rigveda said, "what you describe to me as Male are in reality also Female. He who has the penetrating eyes of the mind discerns this truth". Osho advises that the wise ones should have in their houses the image of Ardhanarishvara for it keeps reminding that division of God's creation on the line of male and female is only superfluous. The creation is essentially composite in its character and this Ardhanarishvara form is its best manifestation. An Ardhanarishvara image is more complete and hence more sacred for it represents Him in His absolute form and reverence paid to Him in this form is also absolute.This phenomenal manifestation of Shiva is the perception of the unity of creation as perceived the Rigveda. The existence, which seems to be composed of two sets of diverse elements, is composite and Shiva as Sadashiva, Adishiva or Adipurusha manifests it in his being. Everyone born is either a male or a female, the Adipurusha Shiva, the Sadashiva, the ever present benevolent One, is the total, all that is masculine and all that is feminine. Cupid and Psyche, the Western models of