How is the Shiva Lingam formed at Amarnath?

Answer 1

The cave shrine of Amarnath can be accessed only during these rainy months of July and August, when inside the cave, a pure white ice-mound is formed, and water trickles down in a slow mysterious rhythm from the top of the cave on top of it. It piles up to take the shape of a lingam, the phallus symbol representing Lord Shiva, which begins to rise undiscernibly to acquire a full shape on the full moon night. It is believed that water from the Ramkund Lake situated above the cave, falls drop by drop on the holy Shiva Lingam.

Legend has it that here on a Shravan day, Lord Shiva narrated Amar Katha — the secrets of the cosmos — to his consort Goddess Parvati, the beautiful daughter of the Himalayas. As Parvati fell asleep during the discourse, two pigeons heard Lord Shiva's story and attained immortality. Since then the holy place came to be known as Amarnath, and every year on the full moon day of Shravan, a pair of pigeons is seen inside the cave.

The Amarnath Yatra, they say, leaves a profound impact of spiritual exaltation on the minds of the pilgrims, who stride through an exceedingly enchanting and enthralling route "upward" to meet the shining glory and greatness of God. Swami Vivekananda recounting his Amarnath experience said, "I have never been to anything so beautiful, so inspiring."-

Answer 2

It is an ice formation. Inside the Amarnath Cave lies the ice Shiva Linga (along with two other ice formations representing Ganesh and Parvati) a natural formation of a ice stalagmite in the form of lingam. This lingam, or phallus, of Shiva is said to grow and shrink with the phases of the moon, reaching it's height during the summer festival. According to Hindu mythology, this is the cave where Lord Shiva told about the secret of Life and eternity to His divine consort Parvati[5], and hence this shrine holds a very special value to the Hindus.

Answer 3

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A hemisphere doesn't sound much like a lingam shape to me but then, I didn't name it. I would guess that the drip of water that forms the Ice Lingam is very regular from year to year.

Answer 5

As Vedic myths were absorbed into Hindu myth belief systems, the deities' roles often changed, even though many of the names were carried over. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva - all three of these deities were originally creator gods in Vedic myth when the Aryans invaded India in the 17th century BCE. However in Hindu myth, the gods formed a triad of preservation (Vishnu), destruction (Shiva) and mediation between the other two (Brahma). The triad maintained both universal order and justice. Does Lord Shiva really exists ??? American professor of mythology Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) is highly regarded for his work as a writer and student of mythology. He believed that spirituality (in whatever form) was a search for the source from which everything has come, is part of and will return to. It is "unknowable" because it existed before words. This universal force is expressed through metaphors - in other words through the myths, stories, art and imagery that we create in this world. A line from the Rig Vedas sums up this belief system : " Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names." As for the existence of Lord Shiva; it is more pragmatic and judicious for the Hindus to make the decisions.

Answer 6

Water drips from the roof of the cave and due to low temp. inside the cave it freezes. When the temp. is not quite sufficiently low for freezing then (perhaps) it is made by ice manually.

Answer 7

the temple reamins closed for 6 months ..
in that duartion ice formed takes the shape of shiv linga ...
which we cant see during summer time ...

Answer 8

freezing water becomes ice and amazingly takes the shape of shivling

Answer 9

hi
it is formed by ice.

Answer 10

by thosands of year back by " reshi"