Historically humans have inclined to find the mysteries of life on Earth. Evidence left by our ancestors are so intriguing and amazing. As we study these historical evidences it is really astonishing how detailed they were. They recorded them for the future generations to understand the concepts, experience their knowledge, findings and make further progress along their findings. Hopefully we can follow their guidance and move forward in a positive way to obtain the goal of this life on Earth.
Humans have understood from Nano level to incomprehensible size of the universe. That is the vastness of the place we are in. The smallest of smallest is as important as the largest of largest. Every aspect of this is important to understand and one has to remain in the neutral state. That neutral state is what humans have tried to understand historically.
It is as simple as a Neutron in an atom and Positive Charged sub-atomic particles (Protons) that are surrounded by Negative Charged particles (Electrons). Electrons, revolve around the Protons which when interact forms Neutrons (Zero Charge), which creates the stability. This type of constant activity is seen in higher level such as universe (Cosmic dance) with fuzzy stability (Higgs-Boson- some call God's particle). This stability state with constant dance historically was identified as Shiva in Hinduism ( way of life).
Cosmic dance of Shiva
Every unit (smallest to the largest) are in constant motion and simultaneously stable. Ancestors represented this concept of stability of constant dance (energy) by Shiva Lingam. Shiva Lingam are found in different parts of the world and some of them have self existed naturally (Suyambu). They carved thousands of lingams in lingam (like fractals) - SahasraLingam.
(Several videos are available about ancient Lingam in the channel by Praveen Mohan).
They incorporated five elements of life ( Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Space (aether - sky))
Shiva Lingams.
Prithivi Lingam
Earth
Ekambareswarar Temple - Kanchipuram
Jambu Lingam
Water
Jambukeshwarar Temple – Thiruvanaikaval, Trichy
Agni Lingam
Fire
Arunachaleswara Temple - Thiruvannamalai
Vayu Lingam
Air
Sri Kalahastheeswara Temple - Kalahasthi
Akasha Lingam
Space
Thillai Nataraja Temple - Chidambaram
Historical Shiva temples of India fall on the same geographical line in map of India:
Some argue that this will not fall into staright line, But Shiva is universal and the view from a higher point - it will fall into a staright line:
Stabilization was the key concept in all these indicators by forefathers. That is the reason they have conferred to be in stable state of mind while one win or lose. They understood the benefits of natural form of stability and gave us in the form of Shiva. They felt the energy from the Shiva Lingam and experienced the meditative stability.
Hence when excavations were done for archeological purposes Shiva Lingams were found in several places of the Globe (Google Search):
For defect less DNA they prayed Shiva to rectify Nagadhosam.
Every part of the Nature were considered part of Shiva. Sacred Mountains were identified as Lord Shiva's Abode.
Mount Kailash
Mount ShivLing
Tiruvannamalai
All these mountains were considered sacred, historically. In a way, the minerals and nutrients flow from these mountains by rainwater and sacred rivers to bring them to land and to make the land fertile for food growth. These mountains are very important in various aspects of Life survival on Earth. Most of the ancient siddhars (500 BCE - 500 CE or 300 BCE or 300 CE - ardent devotees of Shiva) got their ingredients from the mountains (Chaturagiri) and nature.
Diversified Nayanmars (3rd to 8th centuries CE) devoted their life completely to Shiva coming from different backgrounds and professions.
Recently read scientific articles on minerals in the rock surface acting as photoelectric current materials and brain cells are stimulated by electricity. In most of the temples sun rays falls on the Shiva lingam mostly made up of shiny rocks. A rock has energy in several ways. Assuming it's sitting still, a rock may have gravitational potential energy because of gravity pulling on it. It has energy stored in the chemical bonds in the molecules of the rock. Also, if the rock has some charge on it, it could have electrical potential energy if it was in an electric field. Then of course there is the rest energy of the rock. According to relativity(E=mc^2), the rock has some energy just by being massive. The rock has energy stored in many different ways. Rocks containing radioactive materials (e.g. pitchblende) will radiate energy as the radioactive decay. People experienced these meditative electric waves in the temple when sun rays fall on them, it had improved their mental health and well being historically.
During childhood days we used to go Shiva temples in Srivilliputtur and Sankaranainarkoil.
Visited so many other historical Shiva temples over the years:
Great Thanjavur Temple built 1000 years ago By great King Raja Raja Chola
These are great temples and thinking they are standing 1000s of years is amazing as itself. How many people would have come to these places and experienced the divinity. Real truth of life can be experienced in these temples. Followers have written about their experiences. One such epic work is Thiruvasagam written more than 1000 years by Maanikkavaasagar.
Thiruvasagam by Maestro Illayaraja takes you to the upper state:
In Mathematics, there are proofs adding positive numbers infinitely ends up in an negative fraction. From the circle of life at our Mother Earth, Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent in our Earth, meaning all the surface lands of the world at one point were one land mass and now they are attracting towards each other slowly and it may become one huge mass again - this is circle of life at a bigger level. Now, even bigger picture is Universe - Stars and Black holes - So many stars are born and are also pulled by black holes and the event is called “ stellar tidal disruption ”.
When we understand this concept in a simpler words "Everything is Nothing" it intrigues people and make them obsessed with these type of topics. After all, from Nothing, Something may happen again - A complete circle. That circle of everything - nothing to everything - smallest to largest - no start and no end - infinite is Shiva - that concept was completely understood historically by our forefathers and was represented by Lingas, by Temples, felt it in sound (Aum), Nature and at Universal (cosmos) level in meditative states.
