Dhyanalingam - A Miracle

- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

                                         

You experience everything through your seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. All these sense organs manifest and enhance the sense of duality in the world. The sense of light and darkness, the sense of good and bad, the sense of what is pleasant and unpleasant, everything is more and more established. As you get involved with the sense perception or as you think and feel life, the duality becomes deeper and deeper.

Now, is there something wrong with the duality ? That is not the point. Without duality there is no creation. Only because of the opposites, the creation has happened. But to be trapped within the duality is the problem. If one is limited to the duality, one does not know the beyond, then it becomes a great limitation on your life. Duality seems to be the source of all the pleasures in the world. If there are no opposites there is no pleasure in the world. At the same time, duality is the source for all sufferings in the world. It is only because of the opposites that man suffers. So, caught in this pleasure and pain experience of life, people get wounded with life. Most people get wounded with life. They do not become wise with life, they become wounded with life because they are not able to handle the duality of life nor are they able to transcend the duality of life. Because when you have limited your experience to your sense perception, you are bound by the duality, you cannot help it. All these sense organs, seem to be an access, seem to be a freedom. For example, eyes-your vision seems to be a freedom for you. If you had no eyes there is no experience of the outside in many ways. But it is the eye that which is limiting you in so many ways. Eye is like a window to your body; it is through this window you are looking out. Now, a window seems to be a great possibility, but a window is also a limitation for you. If you come totally out of this limitation, then you will see it is not the eye that sees, it is you who sees. Eye is only an opening to the world. So, sense perceptions are just a small opening, at the same time a great bondage within ourselves.

The whole process or the whole science of Dhyanalingam is an establishment of the whole exuberance of the duality of life. Through the nadis of Ida and Pingala, through the seven charkas is the wide range of experience, the wide range of manifestation of life. The many many forms of life, the many many levels of life, many many ways of experiencing life are there in the world only because of the duality and the seven charkas of the seven dimensions of life.

So, Dhyanalingam is manifested in all these levels, but the purpose of Dhyanalingam is to help a person to go beyond the duality. We are not denying the duality. We are not against the sense perception, but using the sense perception, seeing the limitation of the sense perception, one needs to go beyond that. So what we call as Lingam, the word Lingam means a form or the fundamental form. It also can be interpreted in English as symbol. It is the basic symbol or the basic form in the existence.

When we say Lingam, we are referring to the most fundamental form, or the first form that can happen in the process of creation. Just sometime ago I happened to look into the pictures taken through spacecrafts of certain galaxies. If you look at it carefully, you will see the very core of every galaxy is in the form of a Lingam. So, seeing this within ourselves, when you go deep into yourself the very core form of you is in the form of a Lingam. So, based on this is the science of building a Lingam exactly to that form and proportion because that form is a perennial source of energy. Every other form will dissipate over a period of time. The form that we call as Lingam is a perennial source of energy, which cannot be destroyed. It is the fundamental form to the existence. Now, through this manifestation of Ida and Pingala or Shiva and Shakthi, both the dimensions of the logical and the intuitive can be enjoyed and experienced.

Today, in the name of modern education we are establishing too much of the logical, destroying the intuitive totally. We are afraid of feeling life, we want to think our lives out today. People are becoming more and more thinking, less and less feeling. If you know the intuitive, you can make life within yourself very beautiful. But you may be incapable of creating an external situation for yourself. If you become very logical, you are very capable of creating an external situation for yourself the way you want it, but you are incapable of creating an internal situation for yourself. If you look at your life, if your internal situation is very beautiful, you are very blessed. But still if the external situation is very much against you, some suffering will come to you, you cannot help it. The world will make sure that you suffer. If you are a master of external situation, you know how to create the external but you do not know how to create the internal, then you enjoy some pleasure in the world, but absolute misery within yourself. So, one has to evolve knowing both dimensions of the logical and the intuitive. Only then a person goes through this world well balanced, a fulfilling life he can live. But knowing the intuitive and knowing the logical is not sufficient. One has to know that which is beyond this, which in Yoga we refer to as “Prathiba”. One is the intuitive nature, another is the logical nature, what is beyond is called as “Prathiba”, where you are neither intuitive nor are you logical, but you have a direct perception of the world the way it is. To experience life simply the way it is, not to the interpretations of your senses.

 

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