RELS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lingam
16 Jan 2016
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Lecture 13: linga myth, pine forest sages, the killing of kama, siva already destroyed the whole worlds. Siva has chosen to be the lord of the gods among the visnu and brahma. She dives into water for a thousand years and meanwhile visnu tells brahma to create the world, and when siva comes back, he becomes angry and sets himself to destroy everything with fire. Brahma bows him not to do it, and gets a wish for his devotion. He wishes to bring back the world that he just destroyed. Siva sends his energy gathered to the sun for later duties. He then breaks his penis of and throws him to the depths and then it expends. When brahma and visnu search for the end of the linga-penis-sign-light, they find it endless. Worshipping the linga make them attain all the desires. Ascetics living in the krta age living with their wives-forest dweller kinds.
