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Re: ARTICLE : Shiva and Reuters
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Shiva and Reuters
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:26:10 GMT
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Apparently-To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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References: <ghenDwuyMw.Ht@netcom.com>
aq974@lafn.org (Bon Giovanni) wrote in article
<ghenDwuyMw.Ht@netcom.com>...
> In a recent article depecting the difficulties and deaths of
pilgrims
> visiting the cave to view an ice lingam, a Reuters' reporter
> described the object as being Siva's sexual organ.
No he didn't. He described it as "a frozen manifestation of the god
Shiva's sexual organ." Which is absolutely correct. The only fault with
that description is God should have been capitalized.
> The false notion that a lingam is always only a penis, is based on
... a dictionary. The word linga means penis. Nothing false about it.
The base of the Shivalinga is called a yoni which refers to the female
reproductive organs.
> In scriptural parlance, the lingam due worship is an oval object,
Have you ever actually been inside a mandir? The only Shivalinga's which
are oval are the Banalingas which are a very small proportion. And even
if they are all oval so what. It is a representation of a penis not a
scale model.
> and symbolizes the mysterious nature of hiranayagarbha
I won't even attempt to decipher this bizarre statement.
What prudery makes modern Hindus so uncomfortable about this topic? None
of us would be here without a linga and a yoni you know.
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