The Perfect Form

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV explains the symbolism of a linga. When un-manifest energy begins to manifest itself, the first form is always the Linga, he says

Is all energy a vibration or just different frequencies of vibrations? Is gross versus subtle energy, just a difference in the frequency of vibration?

■ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev: Energy, if it vibrates, takes a form. Now you want to put a line between what is physical, and what is beyond the physical. When you are talking about energy as modern science does, you’re still talking about physical energy.We refer to this as prana, which is the source of all physical creation.Beyond that also there is energy.That energy is not manifest as physical, but it is still energy.That’s what we’re calling the etheric body and the bliss body. Or these days, we are calling it nothingness. Nothingness is bliss. It does not make sense logically.You can speak logically only up to pranamayakosha. Beyond that, it will not make any logical sense. How can nothingness be blissful? People feel depressed when they feel like nothing.What I’m saying is, when you experience your nothingness, you feel blissful.That’s not logical. So that realm of going beyond the karma cannot he approached logically. It’s just that you understand that the physical contains something else. It’s wrong to call it ‘something’ because it is no more a thing. We can use the word ‘something’ and all this ‘thing’ business only when it is physical.So when we say ‘nothing’, probably you would understand it better if we put a hyphen between no and thing, because it is no-thing anymore, but still it is, so that is where logic ends. That’s where modern science ends — with the physical.The whole spiritual process is to go beyond the physical, to know something which is not physical. That which is not physical has no dimension.That which has no dimension has no sense of here and there,now and then, nothing like that. Only the physical has here and there. Only the physical has now and then.That which is not physical does not subscribe to all these limitations.

What’s the origin of this Linga form? Is there any scientific explanation to it?

■ When un-manifest energy begins to manifest itself, the first form is always the Linga.The word ‘Linga’means the form.Why we are referring to it as the form is: the first form in the existence is always a Linga. Linga means a perfect ellipsoid. The first form of creation is an ellipsoid.Today modern cosmologists are saying that the core of every galaxy is in the form of an ellipsoid.There are many pictures that show just this.Yoga has always been saying, the first and final form is a Linga. If you become meditative, your energies will naturally take the form of a Linga.From our experience,we clearly know this. Something beautiful like this happened with one of our meditators.A few years ago, when I was conducting a programme in the United States,there was a participant who was an intuitive artist. During the programme, she just kept gazing at me,scribbling and scribbling, without looking at the paper she was drawing on and never lifting the pen off the paper, just scribbling.After three days of scribbling, she had a drawing of a form.When she finally looked at it, she could not make anything out of it. She did not know anything about the Dhyanalinga and she thought the drawing looked like a doorway. She came to me and said,“I want to show you this. My intuition drove me to draw this. I was just looking at you and this is what came out. It looks like a doorway.Maybe you’re my doorway.” I looked at it. It was the shape of a perfect Linga. She got the essence of my energy just like that and drew a perfect Linga. The first form is a Linga.The final form before dissolution is also a Linga. So a Linga is held as a doorway to the beyond, whether you go this way or that way. Both ways, before dissolving into nothingness, the final form is always a perfect ellipsoid.The science of Linga-making is based on this. If you give me any object, this paper for example, I can make it highly energetic and give it to you. In a few seconds, I can make it highly energetic. If you hold it before and after I touch it, you will feel the difference, but the paper won’t be able to retain this energy; it will hold it for some time, and again it will become just a piece of paper. It cannot sustain it;but if you create a perfect Linga form,it becomes a perennial storehouse of energy. Once you charge it, it will always stay that way. Sadhguru:Yogi,Mystic And Visionary, Jaico Publishing House