Re: Shiva Linga - Significance?
Originally Posted by
Znanna
Namaste,
Yoga is ecstatic, UNION.
Perhaps y'all would consider me perverse for saying so, but I must say that pure union with the divine is only marginally replicated by the physical.
ZN
Namaste ZN,
You speak wisdom. The objection usually is to those views which do not know or talk of the divine. Moreover, the linga (indicatory mark) of the one who is unlimited, is also of unlimited significance.
I agree that primarily it is ecstacy, as Shiva is known as more blissful than the bliss. But I chose to say that it is not the physical phallus.
(In upanishad it is said that the raised parts of us are special seats of divinity. I have thought and can come to no other inference that the breasts -- the source of imperishable milk and phallus -- the source of imperishable life, are indeed such parts. Yet breasts and phallus again are indicatory.)
Om Namah Shivaya
Last edited by atanu; 17 June 2009 at 11:41 PM.
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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