Re: Shiva Linga - Significance?
Originally Posted by
OmSriShivaShakti
What I had learned was that the Shiva Linga was a symbol of the characteristic of Shiva that He is without any beginning nor end. So the first Shiva Lingas were spheres or oval-shaped, but so that these things would not roll away, it had to be mounted on something. Then the base of the Linga evolved so that performing an abhisheka would be easier. The view that the Shiva Linga is a phallic symbol and its base is a yoni or vagina is entirely incorrect and is a disgusting fallacy created by the British colonists and Christian evangelists to discount and degrade the Hindu religion.
Namaste,
I entirely disagree with this.
Rather, the notion of "disgusting" is entirely degrading to the symbolism.
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
yaireva patanaM dravyaiH siddhistaireva choditA .
shrI kauladarshane chApi bhairaveNa mahAtmanA .
It is revealed in the sacred doctrine of Kula and by the great Bhairava, that the perfection is achieved by that very means by which fall occurs.
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