Shabari is commonly used as a metaphor for an endless wait for God.

It seemed an endless wait while the mercury pump scavenged the thinning molecules of air.

Most stared blankly ahead, inured to the endless wait.

Anticipating another endless wait, we quit while we were ahead.

"Brooding had become the norm for me, the basis of my condition," Will says during the endless wait for his trial.

'There's always an endless wait for the lifts,' she said, so they used the fire stairs.

He'd entertained himself with those cards during the endless wait for battle.

Plus the endless wait for just about everything, from lockers at the base lodge to tables in the local restaurants.

When you are ready - God, what an endless wait!

But the formerly endless wait has changed.