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SIVABANOPASANA |
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Before
bringing that adorable Bana linga, devotees adapt
an ingenious method of selection of the kind of linga from the
stones found in abundance, hill and in the river, resembling Siva
lingas. a search for long, although all are adorable, they subject
the linga to test - they weigh it first against rice. Later, again
they weigh the weighed rice against the Linga in the changed pans. A
second time. If there were to be a negligible wee bit difference -
say a little more, it is deemed fit for house-holders; and if it is
less, it is earmarked for recluses -- sanyasis. Incidentally, the
linga that
remains same when weighed without undergoing change, is found unfit
and called non-Banalinga. True Bana Linga
fit for worship must have some difference, however insignificant it
might be. Then they bring it for daily worship Worship is made at
home by installing it with rituals as embodied in Saivagamas. This
practice is observed by the zealot Saivates even today. Strange are
the legends, stranger still is the belief, and the strangest it is,
that such worship elevates the devotees and confers solace
abundantly. That, is India. And this Indianess in its prestine
purity
is manifesting even today in the orthodox families to the
embarassment of agnostics.
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