The painting here demonstrates a deity resting on a turtle, which is sticking out its neck. The action of the tortoise symbolizes that in life one should take calculated risks and move steadily forward, as then only they can achieve their goals. The tortoise’s huge shell is suggesting a shelter and protection against the world the cob-web of the inner confluence of thoughts. The painting also presents the contrasting imagery that the deity is meditating by cocooning herself and resting in her meditative shell just like a turtle van totally cocoons itself in its shell. The deity is above materialistic pleasures and has renounced possessions or even the thought of them. Going by Indian mythology, a tortoise is next to the cow (amongst the non-human living beings) in possessing the ability to attract a larger amount of Sattvik waves from the atmosphere. Hence, the tortoise is more Sattvik when compared with other living beings.