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.