Unfortunately the Western scholars wrongly
associated this lingam with the phallus, a
male sexual organ, and saw obscenity in this
worship. They say that Bana is the penis and
Salunka is the vagina a female sex organ; and
thus copulation is represented in the
Siva-lingam
.jpg)
The Bana appears to have come out / upwards through the Salunka; it is not
penetrating down into salunka to think of sexual symbolism.
Why do this sense of phallism arise? It is because those people took wrong meaning of
the word ‘Lingam’. Lingam is, now, taken as a word suggesting sex, but its original
meaning is ‘sign’ or ‘symbol’. For example, Sir Winston Churchill was recognized by his
cheroot while Sir N. Chamberlain by his umbrella. Cheroot & Umbrella were the signs
or symbols of Churchill and Chamberlain respectively. In Sanskrit we would say
Cheroot is the lingam of Churchill while umbrella is the lingam of Chamberlain.
Similarly lingam of Gandhiji is Charkha. Formerly it was said the lingam of Indra was
Vajra, lingam of Brahmadeva was lotus. Thus ‘linga means a sign or symbol by which a
particular person is recognized.
COBRA ON THE SHIVA LINGAM
There is a central pillar, the Bana, surrounding which there is Salunka. Spiraling
around the Bana there is a cobra snake. There is Tripunda Gandha, a special mark on
forehead. This special mark is really a special. It appears to be a picture of a snake
spiraling around in axis. It looks like a spring. This shape resembling a spring is very
important. We know that the DNA molecule is a Helix. The modern scientists compare
it with a spiral stair-case, while the ancient sages have compared it with a spiral of
cobra. The cobra takes support of Bana. DNA takes support of nucleus. The ancient
comparison is more of reduplication. The reduplication of DNA mimics the copulation
of the snakes
The snake is a living thing like DNA but the staircase is not living. The modern
scientists ( Watson and Crick ) have prepared a model in 1953 of a spiral staircase to
depict the same DNA molecule; while the ancient sages have prepared a model to
depict the same DNA and that model is the Siva-Lingam.
To have the sense of life in that model, they thought of the spirals of a cobra and to
make it reach a common man, they put forth an idea of Tripunda Gandha, a sacred
mark drawn on the forehead with our three fingers dipped in the holy- paste. Quite an
ingenious representation, is not it?
SHIVA LINGAM – SHIVA AND PARVATHI REPRESENTATION
HARA = NEUTRON
BRAHMA = ELECTRON
VISHNU = PROTON
PARVATHI=Electric Field Energy (Maya is the force of
attraction of nucleus or proton on the electron)
Courtesy Shri Hariharan Veer Shivadas.
A excellent article by
Shri Hariharan Veer Shivadas
Author Director of Operations Gandhi Foundation USA.
A must read article for any one who wants to know the wisdom of great Hindu saints
and rishi's.
Complete article here.
http://www.hindunet.com
.jpg)
