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 mans 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 Shaktis 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.