Stop the Obscenity: The Shiv Ling Ritual Has Gone Too Far

 

Stop the Obscenity: The Shiv Ling Ritual Has Gone Too Far

https://rakeshinsightfulgaze.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog-post.html

What’s wrong with us? We call ourselves heirs of the Vedic civilization, yet in temples across India, we normalize worship that looks more like a pornographic performance than a sacred ritual. Temples display the Shiv Ling clearly as a phallic symbol emerging from a base that resembles female genitalia. Milk and water drip onto it in a way that blatantly mimics ejaculation. And somehow, we’re supposed to find this holy?

Growing up seeing this, I thought it was normal. But videos surfacing online where entire communities fight over whether a Ling-shaped fountain “ejaculates” properly make me sick. Are we seriously arguing about the performance of an obscene fountain in a place of worship? How have we sunk so low that we don’t just accept this, but celebrate it?

Let’s be brutally honest: nowhere in the Vedas does it say that we must pour milk over a stone penis. The Vedic texts speak of knowledge, self-discipline, and seeking truth not sexualized idols. This primitive, fetishistic ritual is not divine; it’s an invention of priests who twisted faith to control and exploit people desperate for fertility or blessings.

Why does no one call this out? Why do we let priests and politicians, emboldened by power, push medieval, mindless practices while silencing those who question? Are we so afraid of challenging dogma that we’ll kneel before symbols that degrade our intelligence?

We need to stop. This is not spirituality; it’s intellectual decay. There should be no fountains designed to mimic sexual acts in our temples. Rituals should inspire wisdom and dignity, not nausea and embarrassment.

I refuse to offer prayers to a Ling that symbolizes something so crude. I will pray to Shiva, the destroyer of ignorance, but not to a stone idol that mocks both faith and reason. It’s time we wake up, read our own history, and see these rituals for what they are: relics of a dark age that need to end now.

 


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