Shiva and his naga

 Indian mythology is full of beautiful fables and interesting tales. Now they have very mystical meanings if we analyze them, interpret them in a higher dimension. I always thought why do they depict Shiva with a Naga, mostly a black cobra, around his neck and my individual interpretation is something on the following lines. A snake being one of the most perceptible creatures on Earth. Their entire body is in a position to perceive things to a level that is almost impossible to even imagine for human beings. Like for example there is a snake in its hole and there is an earthquake thousands of kilometers away. Now there is a high possibility that the snake will perceive the tremors because it is so sensitive to even the softest reverberations coming across its body. We humans have almost a primal fear when it comes to snakes. Just think of a snake and you get goosebumps and when you come across a snake it can perceive the fear in you. It can perceive the change in your blood chemistry because when you get excited, when you get fearful your blood chemistry changes and your breathing pattern also turns abnormal. Now a snake being so perceptive, even if you don't show any outer sign of being afraid, but you are scared inside, it can perceive the biological or chemical changes in your bloodstream and it reacts to that fear. It is commonly believed wherever there are meditating spiritualists the snakes really like their company. I have read stories about meditating ascetics in the forests and as their mind goes into that state of equilibrium, that equanimity of temperament, that balance of mind and the consequent lessening of fear, a snake especially a cobra really likes those waves of higher frequency. In the neighboring village there was a realized Soul, he left this body about 25 years ago, but people accepted him as an enlightened human being and he used to meditate a lot when he arrived in this area. He used to meditate in a little scrub forest. In his memoirs he has clearly written that when he would meditate there was a black cobra that would continue moving in a circle around him and that continued for at least 5 or 7 years. So it proves that a Cobra has a special liking for those who are spiritually evolved or who are on the path of spiritual evolution because there are certain changes, biological changes as a result of the spiritual practices, which create a kind of divine atmosphere where there is no fear, where the snake loses its instinct of fear and biting. I think the reason they show a Naga around Shiva's neck is that Shiva being a realized soul, a supreme  being who was 100% established within himself, so there was no fear and the snake would find him just like a warm rock during cold winter days, where it could relax since there was no fear, no change in that great yogi's blood chemistry  or emotions or thoughts or energy field. As established as a rock. So a snake would be near Lord Shiva the way it would prefer to crwal on a rock. According to me, the main purpose they show Shiva with a naga was that he was a supreme personality that was 100% realized and established within its human form; there was no turbulence either in his emotions or in his body or in his energy field and a snake would be so comfortable around his neck as it would be comfortable on a rock during harsh winter days in order to soak in the sunrays. The adiyogi established his chitta in all forms, to be like a living rock, a supreme fluidity inside a supreme stability.  And with someone so blissful why won't a naga fall in love. It abandoned its fears and biting insticts. And there we have our beautiful Shiva with a Naga around his neck.