Meaning of the Lingam - wonderfully explained by Swami

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Lingam means simply "the sign", "the symbol"; it is just a mark, which indicates merging (laya); that is to say, the passing away of the mind and all mental agitations and all mental pictures, which means, this objective world. Shivaraathri is the day on which the moon, the presiding deity of the mind, is as near Laya as possible and so, just a little extra effort that day leads to full success; the Saadhaka can thereby achieve complete Manonaashana (destruction of the mind). The realisation is that everything is subsumed in the Lingam .

 

- From Bhagawan's 1963 Maha Shivarathri Discourse.

 

Om Sai Ram