Beautiful Feng Shui statuette of Goddess Saraswati. The figurine is made of polyresin (resistant resin). The height is approx. 15.5 cm.

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom and learning. It is depicted on a lotus or a swan. She is one of the trinity of Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. All three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate the universe.

The earliest known reference to Saraswati as a goddess is in the Rigveda. The Rigveda (Rgveda) is the oldest of the hymnic texts of the Vedas composed between 1500 and 1000 BC and written between 800 and 600 BC
Most of the scriptures refer to our attitude, which should be like a lotus leaf with water drops on it. We should not be driven by immoral values, and our mind and senses should be in perfect control, like a lotus leaf unaffected by external forces. Even when we are surrounded by negative thoughts, we should act like a lotus leaf, just as water drops just fall from the leaf.
Man could engage in knowledge only when his sense and mind are balanced or under control.
Goddess Saraswati is often depicted as a beautiful woman dressed in pure white, often seated on a white lotus that symbolizes light, knowledge and truth. It embodies not only knowledge, but also the experience of the highest reality. Her iconography is typically in white themes from clothing to flowers to the swan - the color symbolizing Sattwa Guna or purity, discrimination for true knowledge, insight and wisdom. Her dhyana mantra describes her as white as the moon, dressed in white clothes, adorned with white ornaments, radiant with beauty, holding a book and a pen in her hand (the book represents knowledge). She is generally depicted with four hands, sometimes she may have only two. The hands symbolically reflect the four heads of her husband Brahma, representing mind/sense, reason, imagination/creativity and self-awareness, i.e. the ego.
The four reds hold things with symbolic meaning:
- pustaka, i.e. a book that symbolizes the Vedas, which represent universal, divine, eternal and true knowledge.
- mālā (rosary),
- water container,
- vīnā - musical instrument.

At her feet is often depicted a swan or the mythological bird hamsa, which symbolizes the ability to distinguish between good and evil, and between essence and external manifestation.
A peacock is sometimes depicted with the goddess, symbolizing colorful splendor, the celebration of dance, and the alchemical ability to transform an individual's snake venom into radiant enlightenment.
The goddess is often depicted near a flowing river, as a reference to her early history as a river goddess.