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Shiva Lingam – Some Mysterious Facts and Scientific Significance:

Shiva Lingam is one of India's most misunderstood topic. In this article Temple Science will decode the mysterious facts and science of shiva linga.
@meenakshisharan

The shape of the Shiva Lingam represent the entire Universe. The secret of the Universe and root cause of the entire creation is hidden behind the image of Shiva Lingam. In Sanskrit “Lingam” represents “Symbol” or “Sign”.
@LevinaNeythiri

Unfortunately other language defines it as a stylized phallic symbol. Due to lack of proper sagacity some people themselves understanding Shiva lingam as the phallic symbol and they also give fabled information to other people
@SoniUpadhyaya

Even the misunderstanding was in so high that some kings of medieval India established Shiva Lingam in an identical shape of phallic symbol. I personally think this misinterpretation was being widely propagated by some egoistic
@AxiJ5

Buddhists to deform the essence of the science of spirituality. We know in Buddhist era the Sanskrit and the Vedic texts turned out to be insignificant in Ancient Bharat. This was the time span when much of misinterpretations on vedic texts had been done intentionally.
@sanj9

But being the most liberal the Hindu society accepted the deformation. There are different ways to realize God in Hinduism, which suggests that Hinduism is liberal and does not have strict values.Individual Hindus, according to their personality,
@Saru81589968

worship the supreme consciousness .Actually obscenity is in our heart, for which we find that same obscenity in everything. Lord Shiva is portrayed as emerging from the lingam —the cosmic pillar of eternal energies. This is called Lingodbhava.
@shivanshis4

The Linga Purana also emphasizes this understanding of lingam as a cosmic pillar, symbolizing Shiva's infinite source of divine consciousness.
Now its time to know what the real essence of Shiva lingam is and how misconceived it is to confuse the Hindus.
@Divya_S_Rathore

Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. It is not only the oldest language but also the flag carrier of Indian culture. This is not only the Indian, but the root of ancient languages of the world.
@Devaaaakshi18

Experts believe all languages spoken in today’s world are originated from Sanskrit. That is why I often say Sanskrit is the ocean of vocabularies and its very difficult to identify the each words according to the sense of their utilisations.
@DocDiv17

For example, If we take a word "Sutra" in Sanskrit, It has various meaning, “सूत्र “ (Sutra) can be used as thread, mathematical formula, clew and subject of writing.Similarly,
@anilkhanna248

the meaning of the word "अर्थ " (Arth) can also be: wealth, substances, amount, significance or meaning. Lingam implies a “Symbol” or “Sign” in Sanskrit. Thus the Shiva Lingam is a symbol of Lord Shiva. Or a sign that recalls the formless infinite supreme consciousness.
@jkd18

Shiva has no parallel word in any other language. But we can choose one nearest word of Shiva which is “nothingness”, so literally Shiva means “not that” Now the meaning of Shiva Lingam is a symbol of nothingness.
@Aabhas24

Literally In Nirvana Shatakam Sri Adi Shankaracharya established the true sense of Shiva,
मनोबुद्ध्यहङ्कार चित्तानि नाहं
न च श्रोत्रजिह्वे न च घ्राणनेत्रे ।
न च व्योम भूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥१॥
@Miss_Chaiwali

Meaning:
1.1: Neither am I the Mind, nor the Intelligence or Ego,
1.2: Neither am I the organs of Hearing (Ears), nor that of Tasting (Tongue), Smelling (Nose) or Seeing (Eyes),
1.3: Neither am I the Sky, nor the Earth, Neither the Fire nor the Air,
@vaidehi_sing

1.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva, the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.
Shiva Lingam worshipped by Romans:
Shiva Lingam's worship was not limited to India, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka alone.
@shyam_chastwa

The worship of different types of Shiva Lingams were not limited to India, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka alone. The Romans who were the first to introduce the worshiping of Shiva Lingam to European nations. Shiva
@smita_muk

Linga was termed Prayapas by Romans, most probably the term “Prayapas” was the wrong pronunciation of “Pashupati” or “Prajapati” because Lord Shiva is also known as Prajapati Shiva. The archaeologists found Shiva Lingams in Babylon, and ancient Mesopotamia
@Sowmiya07939778

addition, the archeological results in Harappa-Mohanjo-daro, which gave rise to countless statutes of Shiva Lingam, revealed the presence of a highly evolved culture long before the immigration of the Aryan (Though I personally do not believe in Arayn immigration theory).

Kind of Lingam:
Generally there are 6 types of Divya Lingam and 2 types of Shiva Lingam available in India, one in natural form of black meteorite in oval-shaped and other is man made by cutting and polishing granite or solidifying mercury
@MohanShobitha

(Which is an ancient Vedic science) according to the design and procedure mentioned in Agama Shahstra.
The Lingam as a Symbol of Creation:
The ancient scripture Linga Purana says that the foremost
@invinciblewife

Lingam is devoid of smell, color, taste, etc., and is spoken of as 'Prakriti' or Nature itself. According to Swami Vivekananda the Lingam became symbolic of the generative source of eternal Brahman or the sign of infinite cosmic energy in post-vedic era.
@Devaaaakshi18

The Linga is like an egg and represents the 'Brahmanda' (Brahm+Anda) or the cosmic egg or Hiranyagarbha.
Hinduism says, the Shiva Lingam is the symbol of Nothigness which later manifested as the Universe.
@radvind

According to Hindu Science the hiranyagarbha or the cosmic golden egg came from infinite Shiva Lingam. Now coincidentally the modern scientists are referring an image of our Universe which is exactly the mirror image of hiranyagarbha (cosmic egg) or Shiva Lingam.
@_ProudSanatani

Shiva Lingam represents the shape of entire cosmos. By decoding the data gathered by NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe measured the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiations) satellite
@Jss12418119

Italian scientists proposed a overall shape of our Universe. Which is just a mirror image of ellipsoidal or egged shaped natural Shiva lingam or generally called “Bana lingam” available in the bay of Narmada river. Science confirms that the Universe might be oval shaped.