Lingam

Chapter 8, About Females Acting the Part of Males.

Chapter 9, On Holding the Lingam in the Mouth.

Chapter 10, How to Begin and How to End the Congress, Different Kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels.

Part 3, About the Acquisition of a Wife.

Part 7, On the Means of Attracting Others to One's Self.

Chapter 1, On Personal Adornment, Subjugating the Hearts of Others, and of Tonic Medicines.

Chapter 2, Of the Means of Exciting Desire and of the Ways of Enlarging the Lingam.

Miscellaneous Experiments and Receipts.

And then something interesting happens.

He is in sexual union with Uma, and that union of Linga and Uma, of Shiva and his consort, that is called the Vishwarupa.

So yesterday I was trying to do this thing where I was like, "Wait, let me introduce you to your Ishta.

It's not Kali, it's not Krishna, it's not Jesus." Of course, you approach it as Kali, Krishna, and Jesus according to your proclivities and your interests and your aesthetic tastes.

Yes.

But one thing Bhagavan made clear, though it is said to be one of the Pancha Bhoota Lingas, the, the five element Lingas, this is not ordinary fire.

This is the fire of jnana, the fire of pure awareness.

The fire that d- that, uh, that burns away ignorance in the form of ego.

Let's go.

That part I, that part I would dispute, right? Because the Linga for the devotee ceases to be that.

It becomes the essence of-

I mean-

Yeah.

There are over a thousand Shiva Lingas, sacred stone representations of the deity, carved directly into the solid bedrock of the Shalmala River.

And because they are carved into the riverbed, the hydrology of the river dictates when they can even be seen.

Oh, right, because of the rain.

Right? Things like this.

You can do devotional yoni lingam massage.

Lingam is the Sanskrit word for penis.

Yoni is the Sanskrit word for vagina.

You can do sacred lingam and yoni massages.

It's a representation of that stillness.

Lingam is that something, the shape of it itself denotes no beginning and end.

And that's why it's kind of an elliptical shape where there is no beginning and end.

So it signifies and it relates very well to what Vedanta as a whole says.

I didn't know what it was.

When I went to India in my guru's temple, he had huge Shiva lingam, in his temple, but he had the ancient Shiva Lingam that looked like a huge penis.

It was not nice and rounded.

It literally had the glands, everything, atomically a male penis.