Handcrafted Sagyin White Marble Nilkanth Varni Yogi Statue, 36in

This 36-inch murti depicts the young Bhagwan Swaminarayan in his renowned Nilkanth Varni form — the eleven-year-old yogi who set out alone on a seven-year barefoot pilgrimage across the length of India in search of true dharma. He is shown standing serene and self-possessed: the right hand raises a japa mala to the heart in constant remembrance, the left cradles a kamandalu water-pot, a deerskin drapes one shoulder, the hair is bound in a matted topknot, and the vertical U-shaped tilak with its round chandlo marks the forehead. It is an image of renunciation held with a child's tenderness — the reason Nilkanth Varni is beloved across the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. The piece is hand-carved from Sagyin White Marble, quarried near Mandalay in Burma and prized in that tradition for its cool, milky, faintly bluish white — softer than bright Vietnam White and never warm-cream like Makrana. Faint grey and cloudy veils drift through the crystalline grain; in the Burmese carving tradition this "movement in the stone" is read not as a flaw but as the living character of the marble, and here it lends the young yogi's skin and drapery a quiet inner glow. Our master sculptors finish the murti to a soft satin polish that catches temple light gently rather than glaring — the beadwork of the mala, the folds of the dhoti, the tooled edge of the deerskin, and the lotus-petal plinth are all worked crisply by hand. Every surface is smoothed for daily darshan and abhishek, while the recesses retain the fine chisel detail that marks a genuinely hand-carved piece. At three feet on its carved lotus base, this Nilkanth Varni sits beautifully as the centrepiece of a courtyard, a temple veranda, or a haveli mandir, where devotees can circumambulate and offer worship. It is equally at home in a spacious home shrine devoted to the Swaminarayan tradition. Each murti is made to order by an independent master sculptor in our network; natural variation in the stone's veining makes every piece one of a kind. We handle design guidance, quality inspection, safe crating, and doorstep delivery across India and abroad.