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Re: ARTICLE : Biased Reuters news reporting again ! .. is it any surprise ?
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Biased Reuters news reporting again ! .. is it any surprise ?
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:41:21 GMT
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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thambiu@skule.ecf.toronto.edu wrote in article
<5077j9$rde@news.ececs.uc.edu>...
> The word Linga has different connotations and implications based on the
> context in which it is used. The word Linga when used in ritual manuals
> of various sects including the tantras and the Kama-Sutra will translate
> to penis, but it has a different meaning when applied to the collective
> term of "Shiva Linga". The "Shiva Linga" represents the male, or father
> aspect, or consciousness of godhead. Just like the "Yoni" represents the
> female, or mother aspect of godhead. The Shiva Linga is a
"representation" of
> the male aspect, or Shiva himself, not Shiva's sexual organ. When Hindus
> worship the Shiva Linga, they worship Shiva himself, not his sexual
organ.
> What better way to distinguish the male aspect than by the simple form
of
> the male sexual organ. You can represent the male aspect in many other
> ways, for example, the full figure of a male form. But again, when
worshipping,
> you worship what the form "represents", not the form itself.
>
I don't think we really disagree here. You seem to be saying the
Shivalinga is not a phallic symbol but a symbol of a phallus. Very well,
though the distinction seems a little overly subtle to me, I'm prepared to
accept it.
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