The Story Behind The Shiva Linga

Shiva, the lord of ultimate spirituality and satisfactions, he is the ultimate answers to all critical and unsolved questions that arouse out in this universe. Today let's learn about the story behind shivalinga in this article today.

Almost all of us have seen people worshiping Shiva in the form of the Shivalinga, a stone like shape usually black in color. And many of us too would have worshipped him in Linga form. But, do you know why we accept Shivalinga as Lord Shiva, the story of Shivalinga. How it came into existence? What is the reason of its shape? And all…

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Shivalinga is the symbol of spirituality, belief, energy and the extent of infinity.

As we know, each belief or event has story about it in many forms. In the same way, the story behind shivalinga is not single as well. It differs person to person, puran to puran and in other religious books or verses. But to the main and most to be believed on, there are two stories.

The first one is as follows- Once upon a time in the legendary history of our universe, Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu came into a dispute debate about the superiority and most powerful one.

Seeing to the pointless dispute, Lord Shiva created a n enlightened pillar shaped figure filled with blaze and asked the disputants to find it’s both ends.

Lord Vishnu became a boar and headed towards down and Lord Brahma took a shape of a swan and flew up to find the upper point. After billions of distance searches, the two came back and Lord Vishnu accepted the loose but Lord Brahma lied that he found the top end to be a flower called ‘Ketki’.

Listening to Brahma’s lie, the fire pillar got burst and Lord Shiva appeared in front of them and cursed Lord Brahma that he won’t be worshipped by anyone ever and the flower he talked about won’t be used as offering to any god or goddess.

And thus afterwards Shiva was worshiped the shape of that pillar being a Shivalinga, the symbole of energy, truth and dignity.

The other one is as- Thousands of years ago, there were a group of sages who worshiped Lord Shiva a lot. To test their devotion and belief Lord Shiva disguised himself as an “Avadhooth” (a naked person) and came to the forest of Daaruk where the sages lived with their family.

On seeing the Avadhoot, the wives of some sages got befuddled and ran away but some of them got attracted and came toward him. When the sages saw the Avadhooth with their wives, they got furious and cursed that his phallus should fall, and it happened.

The lingam fell and started burning the places it turned including all the three lokas- the earth, the underworld and the heaven.

In all this panic, the sages along with all the devas of heaven went to Brahma for its solution. Brahma told the sages that every guest even in the form of an Avadhooth must be treated with respect, as they cursed their guest instead of respecting him.

Brahma then advised the solution that they must request goddess Parvathi to assume the form of Yoni to hold the Lingam and a pot to be put over it filled with water to pour on it and to be invoked with Vaidik Mantras.

Thus the destruction came into control and the shape was called as Shivalinga. It added the message that life comes into existence due to both the males and female being equally responsible.