The linga or lingam, together with the yoni, is the principal sign of Shiva. The usual form is an ovoid stone, often from the Narmada. Some read that shape as an egg—the unborn cosmos. In the Tantras and Puranas it is also read as the regenerative mark of the Lord. It stands in the yoni, the base that names the Goddess.
Within the International Nath Order the lingam is a zonule object and a form of the Cosmic Spirit, not a creed and not a sex-lesson. Egg or phallus is a reading, not a dogma. Shiva without Shakti is shava. The pair is the point. How liquids and flowers are used in Indian temple practice is not the work of this page. Sri Bhuvit, photographed at Mela 2024, is one living instance in this Order. The yoni has its own lemma.
