Shiv Lingam
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2013
- Why is Shivling called the Vigraha and why are females not supposed to worship and touch Shivling?
To begin with, God never excluded himself from a certain group, race or creed. Women, like men, are just worshipping. That distinction is there because of the fact that it was men who wrote the scriptures. Women were not allowed to be a part of the decision making of what is a good or a bad ritual. There is nothing stopping you at all from worshipping whomever you want. If we were to say do not worship Shivling but worship Krishna, are we not differentiating between Krishna and Shiva? Are we not then dividing God?
Why is Shiv Lingam called a Vigraha? Anything in which you worship divinity is a Vigraha. If you are offering abhishekam to Lord Vishnu's idol, similarly you are offering abhishekam to Shiv Lingam. First of all it is a symbol of Lord Shiva. In the yogic texts, ling is a name of the body that is referred to as your subtle body so this is symbolic of Lord Shiva. That said we did go through a time where sex was not a taboo and it was okay to talk about it and that is why so many old temples have sculptures of poses of kamasutra on the walls. But all humans are conceived the same way. So Shiv lingam is on a yoni. It is the ultimate union and a reminder that if you could see divinity in the act of intimacy then nothing will remain superficial. Nothing remains undivine. It is a lack of understanding of this subject that can lead to avoidance or repulsion. When you truly understand, you suddenly see the truth.
Listen to this discourse to find out more.
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There are no insecurities in this religion. And so no condemnation. I can see that. That's something really beautiful. Utterly honest. Naman
Iwas born in a christian family but i became hindu. Sanatana Dharma si really wonderful.
Me too my friend, Hinduism set my soul free from material bondage. ❤
Same with me 🙏🏼🕉️.
ऊँ नमः शिवाय........
हर हर महादेव .........
Wow, such a profound message! It's our internal state of mind that is reflected outside. And I also loved the parts where you mentioned that - 1. Lack of understanding leads to either avoidance or repulsion.
2. Condemning others comes from insecurity within ourselves.
So very true.. If one has the right knowledge and understand, can attend the ultimate goal of this life. I listened to your few discourses.. My heart ful of respect for you, swamiji. When I listen to your talks I feel like we are so bless to have this "amritvani" inside us.
OM TAT SAT..
Parnam Swami Ji. Wonderful clarification of this myth. Love you Swami Ji and grateful for your Divine blessings.
wow I was always looking for this answer and today I got it. Koti koti pranam swamiji🙏
Humble salutations at thy lotus feet swamiji .🙇🏻♀️
Thankyou for this insight 🙏
Big thank you om swami for clarifying this. Thank you. Bless u. 😇🙏
Haro Hara... in my days of fasting getting more enlightment and beating through so many negative nonsense... i have some an amazing video that explains so well about Hinduisms basic and fundamentals of Shiva Lingam. Thank you Guruji... your wisdom is powerful beyond measure... thank you
Pranam Swamiji , very well illustrated . Hinduism is a misnomer and a name given by outsiders to Sanatan Dharma , dharma does not mean religion , its a code of conduct based upon universal truth . Well said that Hinduism has always accepted others opinions and never felt threatened by others opinion . The scriptures of other religion , where they degrade other religions are just commentaries and product of human mind and thats why they are prejudiced . But Vedas are not creation of human mind , they are heard by Rishis in their samadhi , a echo of universal consciousness .
Pranams Swamiji, thank you swamiji.
Million pranams at your divine lotus feet.
Thank you Swamiji ! Very insightful especially the last part about Vairagya 🙏
Really guru ji , you have explained nicely
Even ours priests do not know much about our own religion
Shiv lingum is a sign of jyoti
We, women can touch and worship shiv lingum
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It's an insult for woman to touch or worship Linga
There is no doubt that hindu dharam is pagan religion. That's why me and my most of the member of family left hindu dharam!
@@halalGPT you've just misunderstood the essence of the Grandest , oldest , and the ever-expanding and ever-existing Dharma , Sanatan dharm .
@@halalGPT you left the path of MOKSHA. Until you believe in shiva you can't attain moksha . May shiva bless you om namah shivaya 🙏🙏
@@keshavthakur4957 thats not true what you said
@@anoridinaryhumanbeing70 sanatan dharma will never die,rice bags and muftis can try as much as they want
SANATAN SANSKRITI IS NOT BORN OUT FROM ANY BOOK BUT THIS SANSKRITI GAVE BIRTH TO MILLIONS OF BOOKS....
"SATYA SANATAN SARVADA" 🕉️
It is gratifying that religion scriptures are examined from practical angle for the satisfaction of modern intellectual egoistic persons and reasons given by swami is well read understood experienced and many are even enlightened.
Shivalinga is self soul, which residing in the self, which is One with the that one God.
Swamiji, thank you for all Your wisdom 🙏
Thank you. Always happy to learn something new about religion.
Each time I listen , its like bathing in ocean of bliss
i really agree with u when i know mahadev i started doing puja of shivling n abishek everyday i love good not bidhi made by people its been too much year n i feel too good in my life🙏
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️so Beauuuutiful explanation 🙏🏻👌
Thank you, you just mentioned what I always say to my family...insecurities leads other religious people to bad mouth Hinduism and of course ignorance
Pranam Guruji🙏
🌹 💐 ॐ स्वामी नमो नम: 💐🌹
🙏 जय गुरुदेव 🙏
Wonderful, Guruji a splendid job throwing light on any topic ,this is the greatest learning which is badly needed for our country and the world a million pranams.
Naman Gurudev _/\_ Guru is Mahakaal himself when uttering anything to disciples _/\_ Jai Gurudev
I just love to hear you swamiji
A very beautiful, honest, lucid and common sensical explanation of the entire subject. Thank you Swamiji for removing my doubts about the issue.
Thank you for explaining
Thank you swami 😊
Lovely discourse.. Being a woman Shiv bhakth i m so happy to listen to this...
हर हर महादेव 🙏🙏
हर हर महादेव 🔱
Wise words brother....Love your stuff kick on love it
Thanks my dear angel 🙏
Har Har Mahadev
thank u swami ji
Thank you swamiji :)
Guru Ji 🙏
जय श्रीकृष्ण परब्रह्म
True Sir Great Respect
Nasmate Swamiji! Very nice. Sri Bhagavan said, "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear." BG 18.66
Graceful
Absolutely.Shiva doesn't discriminate between male and female.It's human who discriminate or make differentiation.
i pay my obeisance to your lotus feet Swamiji
🙏swamiji
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌became fan of him
Blessings Om! Can You speak to what foods to eat and encourage healing from foods!
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Swamiji..❤❤
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Every religion is beautiful..I don’t think if any of the religions are insecure of the others..
I wanna learn more 💕
Thank you Swami ji. On this maha shivratri as myself and two young men were performing the midnight puja I was told by one of them that I should not touch the lingam and to only touch the yoni. Something about this seemed wrong - I have read some of the Shiva purana and I do not recall any injunctions against touching the lingam. This is what happens when everything is called a penis!
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Swami ❤
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hinduism is the oldest religion which is universal, om namah shivaye
Just like iskon people belittling bhagvan shiv! Mere baba mere sabhi m hn
Swamiji pranam 🙏 Mera bohot zaruri ek prashn hain Ki kya hum white colour k shiv ling ko ghar pe puja karsakte hain? Bohot zaruri hain is prashn ka jawab kripya karke answer dijiega..
Han ji kyu nhi
i really appreciate your knowledge ruqayya....plz dont take me wrong...i am a spiritual person but i dont believe in any religion...but at the same time i am also not ashamed of accepting or taking any thing, which helps me on my journey to find d ultimate truth...whether its hinduism, islam, sikhism, buddhism etc etc....i agree to you on this thought that many a things written in old Indian ancient scripts are absolutely rubbish...because no one knows that who has written it...whose personal perspective is that what has been added there in the long time....nd also in Islam there is burqa, hijab and may be a man can have more than one wife , where women has jst to bear that...but lets not get into that....
i feel you are a conscious being...get over condemning, finding faults in other religions...focus on your (inner) self...every human being on earth has a very different religion...so respect all...dere's nothing bad in what he is saying...jst try to listen to him with an open mind before making a perception...!!!
if you read genuine scriptures of sanatan dharma like shrimadbhagavad gita etc
you would never find even a single rubish
No insecurities so no conversion in Hindu religion and may be no terrorism . Correctly said. But guruji what is your opinion about decreasing proportion of Hindu population in India. What will be the effect if Hindu become minorities in India in next 100years on Hindu religion
Swamiji, how to see GOD? Please reply me.
Please download black lotus app. There you can ask qsn to swamiji in swaminar.
@@s21700 the Way is in. Not in any app.❤❤
@@anoridinaryhumanbeing70 I know that Buddy however sometimes we want to hear this from beloved Swami ji and that time 2 year ago app provided that feature to directly ask qsn to swamiji. may be he wanted to hear from swamiji.☺️
Thank you bro, but tamas rules, true gun swami is. God shiv.
Shiva means bindu Swaroop …..it was made to thanx universe ….so throw linglim we thanks oll universe that’s in male energy
Hi payal would u like me to explain my understanding ?
Surrender,God is sir we are under.
Swami ji says Hindu scriptures do not have a single line condemning other religions . Here I may say that Hinduism is the oldest /first religion ; the first edition you may call it , there was no other religion in existance while the hindu scriptures were being written so it is obvious no condemnation to the religions which came into existence after Hinduism.
Gurcharan Singh hinduism doesn't have a single book. Many books were written at the time when buddhism was at its peak. And yes there was a prolonged constructive debate between two religions. Our naya sastras are full of debates.
Thank you good job jjjjjjjjbhole
lingam mean paramatma jothi. paramatma is sky. yoni mean Brahruti(earth)yoni is down. that's why that system
Yoni means vagina.
Hindu dharam is not a religion 😂😂😂
@Pranshu impurity is in the observer's mind, really :)
As swamiji said,,
"Just because YOU are a pervert doesn't mean shivlingam is bad."
How do all beings on earth come into existence?
How were you born?
If there was no act of intercourse,, humans, me and you, including all other species,, would have long ago become extinct.
There would have remained no life on earth!!
So if Life and existence is not impure,, that act of intimate love isn't impure too.
Those who call it "impure" are really the ones who are boiling within,, with repressed sexual urge.
If it is done in a loving, compassionate, and honest way,, where is the fuss?
But problem begins in the minds of perverts,,
They'll vent out their violence,, they'll RAPE,, they'll molest,, they'll take advantage of the woman's body in crowded areas,, by brushing past them,, and that IS the real ugly thing. But sex need not be that way.
It should remain a basic bodily thing,, and not enter into the mind-space.
:)
tg
That's why only God shivas sons are been worship, no Vishnu ram or Krishna ,think about it Hindus ,jjjjjjj mahakaal an that's mahakaal God shiva , only God shiva ,jjjjjjmami an God shiv.
The truth! But in this world where so much trouble is happening because of the differences in practices of all the different religions, swami should not have mentioned that Hinduism is supreme and better. I understand that he was mentioning the the great glory of this religion. But people might take it as if this religion is better than others which is not the right way to look at it. All religions takes is to the supreme. All religions shows us the brahman. In-fact, if you are on the spiritual path, after a certain point, you don't even need a religion to live by because you go beyond that. I am ignorant, these are my thoughts, hence I can be terribly wrong. Thank you for the immense wealth of knowledge.
+Binu Pradeep Yes, all religions have the POTENTIAL to reveal the source to the seeker, unfortunately Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and others have been corrupted into systems of control, and that control has been abused by the psychopaths who to tend to rise to the top of any organization, religious or secular.
Hinduism is fascinating, and the Gods and images are so beautiful. I am woefully ignorant of Indian religions. Can someone explain the difference between Buddhism and Hinduism, and are these two sects frequently getting into conflicts and war the way the "big three" have throughout history?
Binu Pradeep, you say you are ignorant and you also come across preachy, decide for yourself...listen carefully, Swamiji says Hinduism never has a line condemning any religion.
Binu Pradeep , "Swami" should not "have mentioned".
(should and should not also does not exist in Sanaatana Dharma.)
Do you realize you are quoting the Swami out of context ,and secondly , you are judging him for something he did not imply . Do you, I mean we all , realize ,why our outer drishti bindu distorts our Inner "Shuddha" perspective ?
It is because of the colonial mindset we have cultivated due to our west imposed education which is stripped of it's Spiritual Values.Khokhla information alone does not give us Knowledge (GYAN).
Padhke bhi hum unpadh reh jaate hain .
British and all colonials have done that harm to us.This is why , at the end of your comment , you apologize."I am ignorant-- I can be terribly wrong".Observe your wishy - washy attitude.
Why not the Swami speak his mind out openly when he is explaining ,
THE TRUTH ABOUT SHIVA LINGA ?
First of all ,Dharma System is not just a religion , which is only a 'dot' in Dharma System's UNIVERSALITY .
So , to equate it with other religions is itself a no no.
Other religions are dogmas that depend on what is written in a book and arrive at an illogical conclusion that "my way is the only way"
Secondly ,the topic he is explaining here is not of superiority or otherwise of any religion.
By the way , other religions don't believe in "SUPREME" & "BRAHMAN". NO.
We have been mistakenly lead to believe by proselelytizing processes that the concepts are the same.
Brahman lives in every breath we inhale and exhale. He/She/It is in every grain of sand, every leaf,petal plant and animal(including Man). Brahman is here, there and everywhere.
Every Jeevaatman ,( including the animal)IS BORN INNOCENT AND PURE.
Other religions believe in a God who exists in Heaven ALONE and arbitrarily controls people. Christ and Allah discriminate.Everyone is a born sinner.Only by accepting christian/islamic dogma,one can remove the daag of being a sinner. ( How can one conclude from these preachings, that all religions are the same???)Further , look at the contradictions. On friday/sunday, you go to the church/masjid and confess your weekly sins and continue to sin after the confession until the next weekend. So long as you remain like a sheep within the christian fold and keep donating, you are saved.
Thirdly, Dharma does not say "all religions are one" .
IT Says ," ALL ARE PATHS TO THE ULTIMATE TRUTH ". That means,on the path all dogmas and doctrines, ideas and ideologies will falter and fall ,struggle and strive with EXPERIMENTS OF TRUTH.
TRUTH is not a commodity that can be offered on a platter like a cooked dish called The Bible or Quran to be consumed "As Is"(bakra or wine dipped wafer )
Even Manu Smriti has to evolve in different yugas and centuries as Time evolves and changes and the
NEEDS OF THE WHOLE STRATA OF SOCIETY CHANGE .
Manu has nowhere said that what he says is the gospel truth for All times. It is a Reference point for us to glean and use what applies to us Now in current times.
You yourself say ,that "if you are on the spiritual path---you don't even need a religion to live by".
Tell me,which religion gives you that freedom ? Try living spiritually like that in islam, kristu and judaism.Practice it for 6 months like Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa did and see the results for yourself.
I just felt a clarification is required here. I won't apologize for my Hindu Dharma. Of Course ! IT IS THE PATH FOR ME . BRAHMAN CARRIES me through my faltering steps WHILE I AM ON THE PATH OF SELF REALIZATION. I am allowed to make mistakes and learn . For having a different thought , I am not declared a kafir/apostate/and fatwa issued for my head to be chopped off by my allah/god's chosen one , a mullah/padri.
HARI OM TAT SAT .
Bakula Thompson Dharma the righteous path and Love these two things will lead us to the ultimate truth
And these things are independent of what religion you belong and to understand Dharma and love, it could be simple or difficult at the same time
But if you think deeply then you will realize truth itself lies in these two.
There is no Dharma or love if you do it without truthfulness
I am agree with you that God is everywhere and not just for outer world but every thought is God. No matter if is positive of negative
God lies in between this duality
Bakula Thompson wow you went big on that one I very much like how straight forward you were very pure 🙏
Hinduism is so hard to practice - you have to be a vegetarian and believe in millions of Gods.
Actually only 33 type of gods ... not 330 millions ..it's often misinterpreted
12 Adityas or Solar gods including Indra, Surya, Mitra and Varun
11 Rudras, the Manifestations of Lord Shiva
8 Vasus or Elemental gods such as Vayu, Agni, Antariksh and Dyaus, the Sky God
Prajapati Brahma
Shri Hari Vishnu
Shine on So you are saying all around india I will not find more than 33 Hindu gods that people pray to?
George Washington our religion is deep down scientific... Actually there's only one god but he have subdivided himself for the different purpose mainly production/ protection/destruction so ...God one god is doing this in different forms ... For sure there will be more than 33 gods = )) but all are sub form of the 33 forms = ))) its very complicated ............ u must study a little bit I'm sure you will find it fascinating = )))
No sir.. actually lord vishnu is supreme deity in Hinduism .. rest are classified into other groups like demi gods , divine beings ..
You pick and choose what you desire when it comes to gods. If offered a feast do you eat everything off the table till empty?
He is wrong here "you condemn when you are not secure" where as the truth is "we condemn when we hear false stories"........we condemn the godliness of gods who fight among themselves(shiva and vishnu) ,we condemn the manusmrirti which says 19. “Asheela kamvrto………” - 5/157. Men may be lacking virtue, be sexual perverts, immoral and devoid of any good qualities, and yet women must constantly worship and serve their husbands.
hey....
the Mahabharatha also says, that not one man must abuse/pain his wife.
The stories of puranas were meant to glorify its main.central god and in the prcess they abused other gods.
but what their main deity does it perfect. in dharma.
and puranas are given the same status, as that of hadiths, we do not consider all of them to be exact and authentic-because many of them pisses the same stereotypes they have about other sects,lke shiva/vishnu.
these parts are additions.
ruqayya noorin little knowledge is dangerous. Should we not condemn marriage of a 9 year old Aiyesha with a 40 yr old man ,a so called..........
Pankaj Narayan by your statement you’re actually proving her point. You might wanna re-read her comment.
Let me remind you... The Highest Goddess - the Parashakti - is a female deity...
And She is treated as the Universal Mother...
All Gods including Shiva and Visnu worship Her... according to our shashtras...
And you never know...
What underlying message they wanna deliver us ... with the fights... and the Manu scriptures...
Just think about it... With deep Reflection... instead of immediately reacting...
It's more than what meets the eye..
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