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Sadhguru explains the significance of

the 12 Jyotirlingas and their
importance as tools for our ultimate
wellbeing.

Sadhguru: Indian culture has been among the few

cultures on this planet if you look at it in terms of its
geographical size, probably the only one of such size
where for thousands of years, the whole population
was focused only on the ultimate wellbeing of the
human being. The immediate, material wellbeing was
just handled as a small part of ones life. The moment
you were born in India, your life was not about your
business, your wife, your husband or your family;
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your life was only about mukti. Every aspect of life

was about your liberation. The whole society was
structured like this.
So, they naturally wanted to use every possible device
they could create, every possible situation in life, to
enhance this process. If you got married according to
the traditional rites, the priest at the ceremony was
telling you just this: this union of you and your spouse
is not important. It was not about you getting
married. Both of you meet and make use of this for
your ultimate union. Y ou got married because you
have some compulsions within you, you are not free
of them yet, but you use them as a tool for your
ultimate wellbeing so that you reach towards the
Ultimate. Everything was just about that.
In this context, many
kinds of powerful
devices were created in
this culture.
Jyotirlingas were
created as very
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powerful tools in this

direction. Some of them
are still very much alive
and intense; they could
definitely be useful. If
one has become
meditative by his own
nature, then outside
help may not be
relevant. But for
someone who is not
meditative, it is very
relevant. It is a
powerful experience to

power
because they
were
consecrated
and made in
a certain
way. There
are only
twelve
Jyotirlingas in
the world.

be in the presence of
such forms.
Jyotirlingas have tremendous power because they
were consecrated and made in a certain way. There
are only twelve Jyotirlingas in the world. They are
located at certain geographically and astronomically
significant points. These points are subject to certain
forces in the existence. A long time ago, people with a
certain level of perception very carefully calibrated
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these spaces and fixed those points according to the

celestial movement. These spaces are created in a
certain way, not just using human capabilities, but the
forces of nature. That is the reason why the
Jyotirlingas are located at those particular points.
These temples were consecrated according to the
science of energizing forms. This is the science of using
life energies to enhance human life in a phenomenal
way. If you transform mud into food, we call this
agriculture; if you make food into flesh and bone, we
call this digestion; if you make flesh into mud, we call
this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a
stone or an empty space into a divine possibility, that
is called consecration; it is a fantastic science.
Unfortunately, we have lost that sense of what
consecration really is; all kinds of ridiculous things are
happening around it, and people have turned it into a
business.
I dont usually
visit temples
but I happened
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to go to the
Jyotirlinga in
Ujjain. This
temple has
been
vandalized in
many ways.
Invaders
demolished the
temple and it
was rebuilt two
or three times,
but still, if you
go sit there,
this little form,

Mahakaleshwar Temple, Ujjain.

just this little

piece of stone, which has been sitting there for
thousands of years, will just blow the hell out of you.
It is reverberating like it was made yesterday.
Jyotirlingas are very powerful tools if one knows how
to make use of them. If you know how, you can
completely reorganize the constitution of your system
in the presence of a linga like that; you can rewire
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your system completely. For every kind of linga that

was created, there was a specific sadhana attached to
it. The sadhana aspect is all gone nowadays. The
temples have become like a monument for someone
who died long ago. Some of the Jyotirlingas are no
longer alive, but many of them are still very powerful
tools.

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Photograph of the Ramalingeshvara Temple,

Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, taken by Nicholas and
Company in c.1884, from the Archaeological Survey
of India Collections from Wikimedia Commons.
Mahakal Temple, Ujjain from Wikimedia Commons
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Vishal Vangara

2 years ago

Namaskaram Ishas,
Where are the other jyothirlingas in the world
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mohan > Vishal Vangara

2 years ago

1. Somanath (Gujarat), 2. Trimbakeswar, 3. Bhimashankar, 4. Ghrineswar 5. Parali Vaijanath (all in

Maharasthra), 6. Sri Sailam (Andhra Pradesh),7. Kedarnath (Uttarkhand), 8. Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), 9.
Kashi (Uttar Pradesh), 10. Rameswaram (TN)11. Onkareswar (Madhya Pradesh). 12. Vaidyanath (Bihar)
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Kailash > Vishal Vangara

2 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
I have been fortunate to visit some... for me Kedarnath was the most powerful.
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Madhan

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a year ago

Hi
Sadhguru says some of the Jyotirlingas are not alive.
Can you please let me know what are the other Jyotirlingas which are more alive and powerful apart from Ujjain &
Kedarnath
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2 years ago

There's a lot of confusion these days with many temples claiming to be Jyotirlinga temples. Too confusing, which i
why I stick to Dhyanalinga. :)
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Jaya

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7 months ago

Saurashtre Somanaatham Cha Sree Shaile Mallikarjunam

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Ujjayinyaam Mahaakaalam Omkaare Mamaleswaram

Himalaye to Kedaram Daakinyaam Bhimashankaram
Vaaranaasyaam cha Viswesam Trayambakam Gowtameethate
Paralyaam Vaidyanaatham cha Naagesam Daarukaavane
Setubandhe Ramesham Grushnesam cha Shivaalaye.
Om namaha shivaya om namah shivaya om namah shivaya
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priya balaji

2 years ago

Need to know where are the other jyothirlingas.

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Himalayan Lodges > priya balaji

2 years ago

Jageshwar is also known as one of the jyotirlingas, is it true?

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Curious K

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an hour ago

Sadhguru, you are saying if one knows how to make use of these Jyotirlingas it would blow our minds, it would ma
us reach our highest potential. But how do we make use of it? How would a devoted Yogi would use it too?

jk

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9 months ago

@ mohan------------the master said all over the world ..........mens there are some out of india.......too..maybe.....

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Manish Guha

9 months ago

Jst amazing..
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