Narmada Lingam

Narmada Lingam or Banalinga, a stone found in nature, in the bed of the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh state, India, is an iconic symbol of worship, based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions among the Hindus, particularly of the Shaivaites and Smartha Brahmins. Stones are ancient and connote divinity. It is a smooth ellipsoid stone.

Banalinga is also called the Svayambhu Linga: (Sanskrit) “Self-existent mark or sign of God”, as it is discovered in nature and not carved or crafted by human hands.

The forms of Linga can vary in detail from a simple roller shape roughly cylindrical Banalinga to the stone carved with a thousand facets (Sahasralinga) or of light relief in several human figures (Mukhalinga). The Linga in the shrine of a temple is in stone.

The Narmada Shivling are quite strong and the hardness is a 7 on the Mohs scale.

Size: Approx 1 – 1.5inch

Narmada Narmadashwar Sexual Healing Impotence Banalinga Stone.

Shiva Lingams are egg shaped crypto-crystalline quartz.

The reddish stripes, spots or rings represent the female aspect (wisdom) in the gray elongated shaped stone which represents the male aspect (knowledge).

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Background

A lingam, sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva in Shaivism. It is typically the primary murti or devotional image in Hindu temples dedicated to Shiva, also found in smaller shrines, or as self-manifested natural objects. It is often represented within a disc-shaped platform, the yoni – its feminine counterpart, consisting of a flat element, horizontal compared to the vertical lingam, and designed to allow liquid offerings to drain away for collection. Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, the divine eternal process of creation and regeneration, and the union of the feminine and the masculine that recreates all of existence.

The original meaning of lingam as “sign” is used in Shvetashvatara Upanishad, which says “Shiva, the Supreme Lord, has no liūga”, liuga meaning he is transcendental, beyond any characteristic and, specifically, the sign of gender. Lingam is regarded as the “outward symbol” of the “formless Reality”, the symbolization of merging of the ‘primordial matter’ (Prakṛti) with the ‘pure consciousness’ (Purusha) in transcendental context.

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