why do we worship the shiveling and what is the significance of it okay you see because again one
of the features that other people like find weird in hinduism they think we are worshiping a male
felix symbol it looks like doesn't it and also in this go the only at the bottom it said like
oh this is like male female unit unification or something are we celebrating sex so what's
going on let me tell you my personal take on it there is a variation of views in hinduism
i'll give you my personal take on how this shielding came into is important auspicious
uh symbol in hinduism according to me most of this kind of lovely discovery regarding what is our
true nature a spirit atman all these things happen in chaos where else will these people find this
kind of you know northeast and quiet caves are quiet places and they are in ancient india there
are caves all over so this ancient kind of seekers would go go and live in a cave the latest one is
ramana maharshi we lived only in until 1950 and he lived in a cave almost all his life so they would
go in a cave this is a quiet place sometimes the snakes are walking around but they don't mind they
kind of share the cake with snakes and all these things while animals even so they would go into a
cave to meditate day and night and they're really putting a lot of effort sometimes they will not
eat or drink even so through this introspection this difficult period they've slowly kind of
delved deeper into their true nature right so this would be what is our true nature not just ego what
is our true nature through this process ancient and modern rishis and rishikesh the people who
deaf you know dug deeper with god regarding their own nature discovered there is something dramatic
about themselves not about only themselves when they open their eyes after meditation and look
around they think the whole universe is nothing but expression of the same spirit bubbling up
appearing as this material world but underpinning is the same spirit this here is me is also there
this was their experience experience remember this ramakrishna probably had this episode
they're very young age seven or eight the whole world becomes alive comes alive as a spirit not
as material thing it's a dynamic experience very very thrilling experience very sweet experience
rice food is priya sweet experience so when they open their eyes in the caves what do you find in
caves stellar ties and stay like mines they told me they still like the girl comes from the top and
still like ma comes from the bottom but whatever so they just they looked around and this was
still lactose telemites so first impression they had is this is the manifestation of the spirit
something coming out of the earth and kind of you know becoming invisible
as if spirit is manifesting you know becoming this kind of static might and coming out from
the from from the floor and that's what they saw and i suspect this is how this symbol become very
visible as a sign of an individual recognize the universe is nothing but manifestation of spirit
something kind of popping up like that and the best example you know you see this even today is
and this doesn't come like a stalagmite but it's actually just water dripping from the from the top
of the kale and turning into a huge stag mite and that is now worshipped as amarnath shiva
this is what i suspect is the reason why we had this particular feature but a lot of people like
to make fun of it let me also tell you this thing the word linga they think it means male felix
symbol is not true linga check out the sanskrit dictionary ling means symbol simple lingam means
symbol so we are saying it's a symbol symbol of what spirit manifesting at the creation that
is why we celebrate shiva language if anybody makes weird comments just say go away you can
always look at anything so give it a real meal i don't think it is there it's the deeper vision
you