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SHIVA-LINGAM is the symbol of two
aspects of energy – yin and yang; male and female. It is through the merger of the two
energies transcendence happens. Transcendence is Light. Transcendence is
Bliss. It is therefore the highest and the ultimate symbol of man’s innerness.
Lingam or Linga (Sanskrit: Gender as in purusha-linga: Phallus) is used as a symbol for
the worship of the Hindu God Shiva. The use of this symbol as an object of worship is a timeless
tradition in India.
Mainstream scholars connect the origin of the lingam to the early Indus Valley civilization.
Interestingly, the Lingam finds no mention in the Vedas. This is held by most scholars to be a
significant indication of the different origins of the Aryans with whom the Vedas are associated,
and the people of the Indus Valley Civilization, to whom Shiva and the Lingam were important
objects of worship.
Notwithstanding its absence from the Vedas, the
Shiva Lingam is of pervasive importance in many other major Hindu scriptures, including
the Puranas.
You must have seen Shiva temples in India and around the world wherever there is Hindu
community; you must have seen the SHIVALINGA. SHIVALINGA simply represents
the orgasmic state of these two lovers.
SHIVALINGA simply represents Shiva as
masculine energy; and just below SHIVALINGA — the phallic symbol — is the symbol of Shakti:
YONI. SHIVALINGA and Shakti’s YONI are meeting; they have become one, they have
disappeared into each other. They have lost ALL personality. That is why it is the only image in
the world which has no face. And energy is light. That is why these symbols are called
Shivalingam or Jyotirlingam.
Just pure energy is symbolized by LINGA and YONI, by the male sexual organ and the female
sexual organ. Simply energy is represented — creative energy, vital energy; energy out of
which the whole of life flows. Neither Shakti has
any face nor Shiva. Those faces are no more meaningful the personalities have disappeared.
It is a meeting of pure energy, and only pure energies can dissolve into each other — because
if you have a solid personality it will obstruct dissolution. Only pure energies, liquid, can enter
into each other and become one. If you put two rocks together, they may be together but they
cannot become one. But if you pour water into water, it becomes one.
At this highest peak where all the seven centers
meet, persons disappear, only energies remain, a play of energy, a play of consciousness. And
the joy is constant, it is orgasmic. It is a
spiritual communion. No meditation is needed for such a couple — because for such a couple
love is meditation enough. It is a mystic
phenomenon, it is transcendental. But it is very
rare. Amongst millions and millions of people, once it will happen. It will be almost a chance
meeting.
Below it, there is another meeting: six centers meeting. That too is rare. If the first is one
percent, the second is only two percent. It is union, not unity. It is not a cosmic, mystical
union, but still something very close to it — an aesthetic union, an artistic phenomenon, a
poetic experience.