Lord Shiva and the beginning of life!!
As in Hindu
mythology, lord Shiva is the fundamental god. The form in which lord Shiva is
represented and being worshiped is called as “ling”.
“Ling means symbol”. Man needs
a symbol to worship, so the ling was created. A ling is only a symbol to
identify something, for example, if someone is wearing a stethoscope, you would
understand that he must be a doctor, similarly, worshiping ling means worshiping Lord Shiva.
In this post
we are going to learn how shivling is related to universe and what modern
science has to say about it.
Day by day we
are learning about universe with our modern science. But it’s very surprising that
these universe discoveries have been along with us in the symbolic form of
shivling.
Big bang time calculation:
- According to our
scriptures, one earth year equals to one day of gods and 12 years of gods is
one “KALP” and kalp is equal to “YUG”. 4 Yugs make one “Chaturyug”. Many of the
Chaturyugs constitute one day & night of Brahma which makes 34560 million
earth years and it is exactly the time of BIG BANG.
In the
scriptures, it is written that as the result of the Big Bang explosion, the
light form which appears is named as “Lord Shiva”. They say, the centrally located “TRINETRA”
on shivling represents this explosion. The scriptures describe “Hiranyagarbha”
– the beginning of life and the
scriptures say this Hiranyagarbha is the thread or you can say the formula of
life which is complete in it and reproduces itself without any organ. Even
multiplies itself from 1 to 2, then from 2 to 4 & so on.
Now we know
about DNA (which contains the genetic code). DNA reproduces itself and it is
the basic formation of life, now if we compare it with DNA... We find them both
same. So, as the life originates in the form of DNA, our rishis saw this
supreme power is the beginning of life, which they called it SHIVA.
Our Rishis
saw the structure originated from lord Shiva through meditation & explain
it the same way the modern science explains DNA as a helical structure. A pair
of snakes wrapped around shivaling represents the double helix structure as
Rishis explain and proposed that it was the basic structure & entire nature
begun with it. The properties suggested for DNA by modern science had also been
earlier described in our scriptures.
But if Shiva is the supreme power, why the water poured over shivaling is not considered as holy or “CHARNAMARATA”!!
As Shiva
originated due to Big Bang explosion, rishis say that Shiva has been created in
the form of a mound first, a round mound. If you see also all the nuclear power
plants are dome shaped and as the nuclear plants are radioactively explosive in
nature, similarly shivaling is almighty and needs to be cooled down by pouring
water and because the water poured over explosive dome must not be pure, so
water used for “ABHISHEKA” of shivaling is not considered as “PRASADA”.
Shivaling is
not mere a symbol. Our ancestors gave a message of beginning of life through
the form of shivaling. they considers Shiva as an ultimate power so they say
that we shouldn’t take a complete circle( parikrama ) around shivaling.
Now if you
see, shivaling represents the atomic structure. Here, was double helix which
they called Har (shiv) and Hari (Vishnu) and imagined that this ling has Har
(neutron) and Hari (proton) inside and Brahma (electron) spins around in the
form of Talhari Brahma which is tied with Hari by thread through his naval and
can’t go too far away from him. Clearly, it is exactly same as present atomic
structure of an atom.
Nucleus – (proton
+ neutron) and electrons rotate around the nucleus being held with a strong
force of attraction.
