A train of thoughts fade in and fade out:
- What metaphors the lingam conveys, I can only guess or imagine: Being Ardhanareeshwara… male and female… Lightness and heaviness… Yin and Yang… Being and non-being… Is-ness, here and now… Living in the three states and moving towards Turiya.
- Brahma, Vishnu, Maheswaraa… all imbibed in one. Even Devi is present in the lingam: engulfing the lingam in her yoni. This makes the lingam, for me, complete; not just a phallic symbol.
- When you worship the lingam, you are worshipping the very concepts of existence: the life force. Harmony. All is one. Equilibrium. Sex to Super-Consciousness. Fountainhead. Left Hand of God.
- How many worlds it encompasses? How many emotions it kills?
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The Vedas do not discriminate between man and woman for in the Self there is no two (man and woman) but one. All is Self/Atman.
This is because in the Atman, the body is not identified. When you identify with the body, one sees man and woman. But the Vedas go beyond the body, to the very centre, and thus see all as one.
This is a very deep and broadminded thinking that originated since time and has never changed for Truth always remains.
It is amazing, is it not?
When looking out, one has to open one's eyes. Thus, one sees and identifies with the body. Being at the body level, one is able to make out the sex (male /female), emotions (laughter/tears) and other aspects which is all at the gross, finite level.
On the other hand, when looking in, ironically, one closes one's eyes to see. To observe the mind, one has to go within.
However, if one goes deeper, it goes beyond the body (object)for, it is no more about the body, but the infinite mind.
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