I bought a small Shiva linga.
How do I worship Shiva?
How do I worship it?
Owen King
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Brandon Stewart
Shove it up your ass
Wave your arms
Easton Bennett
I can confirm this is true.
Mason Stewart
Open the tutorial in the study panel
Wyatt Stewart
not like this
Jace Nguyen
Never realised how racist this is...
its probably banned in India
Landon Martinez
YOU BETRAYED SHIVAH
Nathaniel Collins
linga means penis so that basically means shiva penis.
I might get beaten if I say that in front of a temple lol.
Angel Smith
Isn't Shiva a summon in Final fantasy?
Daniel Walker
I vouch for this as well
Bentley Reed
You could perform ārati for it (en.wikipedia.org
In general, there isn't just one "correct" or "proper" way to worship in Hinduism.
Nah, that's actually what this is called. It's not a disrespectful name for it.
Matthew Rivera
Hold on lady we go for ride
Ian Butler
>Indians worship black penises
Jason Powell
Shiva is dark skinned, not black
Alexander Harris
put flowers and fruit around me TRUST ME senpai
Hudson Murphy
Here is my linga and yoni.
It's made of marble.
Isn't there a milk pouring ritual?
Is there a specific place I should keep it?
Must it be worshiped everyday?
Ian Cruz
Fun fact: the thing is an idol of shiv's dick
Hudson Morgan
Pour milk on it & drink it at the base.
Josiah Thompson
Chant the benis mantra in spurdish.
Gabriel Walker
>Isn't there a milk pouring ritual?
There is a ritual in which milk and water are alternately poured over the lingam, yes. Mahā Śivarātri, basically Śiva's annual holiday, is coming up, and would be an especially good day to perform such a ritual.
>Is there a specific place I should keep it?
Placing it on the floor could be considered disrespectful, but apart from that, the best place to put it is anywhere elevated where it is easily visible. If you have a table where you keep other spiritual objects, like incense or prayer beads, you could place it there, for example.
>Must it be worshiped everyday?
You can do offerings / pūjā / ārati / meditation as frequently or infrequently as you wish. More is generally considered better.
Juan Smith
>According to Swami Sivananda, the view that the Shiva lingam represents the phallus is a mistake.[15] The same sentiments were also expressed by H. H. Wilson in 1840.[27] Diana Eck believes that translators of Shiva Purana erroneously translated linga as "phallic emblem". She compares the mistranslation "as inadequate as it would be an interpretation of the Christian Eucharist that saw the rite first and foremost as ritual cannibalism, eating the body and drinking its blood".[28]
Samuel Anderson
LITERALLY THE WORST PLACE TO ASK ABOUT HINDUISM.
Alexander Martinez
Why would a Jap worship Shiva? Don't you guys have all sorts of cool deities to worship?
Eli Scott
He wants to summon Shiva to do diamond dust ice attack on all enemies.
Nathaniel Nelson
>Don't you guys have all sorts of cool deities to worship?
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Jack Morgan
Didn't the Indians have a lingam that floated in a air because of a magnetic pedestal until Afghan muslims sacked the temple in late 13th century?
That's pretty much the only thing I still remember from that one Indian history book I read. And the fact that one prime minister drank his piss because he thought it was healthy.
Cooper Wilson
When is India going to rise up and take back hindu dominance like they did with those silly Maratha rebellions?
Robert Wilson
>the wonders of the place was the temple in which was placed the idol called Somnath. This idol was in the middle of the temple without anything to support it from below, or to suspend it from above. It was regarded with great veneration by the Hindus, and whoever beheld it floating in the air was struck with amazement, whether he was a Mussulman or an infidel. The Hindus used to go on pilgrimage to it whenever there was an eclipse of the moon, and would then assemble there to the number of more than a hundred thousand.
Logan Wood
Holy shit the irony is killing me
Jayden Clark
Cool as fuck