This is a Linga consecrated by Shaivacharya Swami Lakhsman Joo Maharaj
There is a a place to sit and meditate. You can go into meditative states here effortlessly.
How to Get there
The ashram is located east of Dal Lake, Srinagar.
Map:
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About Amriteshwar Bhairav Temple
In 1982 Swami Jee installed a temple within the Ashram called Amriteshwar Bhairav Mandir (temple); the temple is dedicated to ‘ Sri Amriteshwar Bhairav Nath’. There is a sacred ‘Shiv -Ling’ in the temple. Every year, a flag is hoisted in the holy temple on the eve of Shravan Poornima. The ritual continues with the first flag of this temple having been hoisted by Swamiji himself on the day of its inauguration in 1982.
About Shaivacharya Swami Lakshman Joo Maharaj
BIRTH
Swami Lakshmanjoo, born in Srinagar, Kashmir on May 9, 1907, has been the most recent of the greatest saints and masters of the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. At his birth his family’s Guru, the great Shaiva master Swami Ram literally danced in joy exclaiming, “I am Rama, let the child be called Lakshmana.”
At birth Lakshmana had five siblings, one elder brother and four sisters. His revered father, Pandit Narain Dass Raina and his mother Arnimal, were noble and God-fearing parents. Pt. Narain Dass was the first person to have introduced Houseboats in Kashmir, which earned him the title “Nav” Narain. He was also the first in Kashmir to wear a coat and ride a bicycle.
CHILDHOOD
Lakshmana, when 3 years old, reveled in making Shiva-lingams out of clay for worship. At five, he would get absorbed in meditation and this raised a concern with his parents, who thought that their son had developed some unusual behavior which may have be some kind of illness.
Swami Ram simply brushed aside their concerns by saying, “I should be blessed with such a condition.” When Lakshmana turned 15, his parents thought of arranging his matrimony, which was the standard practice in those times and ages. But Lo! And Behold! Lakshmana vehemently opposed the idea saying, ‘I am already married to Almighty God!’
SELF REALIZATION
Lakshmana continued to amaze people around him and had the experience of Self-realization for the first time, at the youthful age of 20. His spiritual urge was just increasing by the day and one day it ignited the desire to leave home for practicing yoga at the famous ashram of Sadhamalyun in Handwara (Sadhu Ganga), Kashmir. He left a note for his brothers asking them to look after his parents and another for his father stating that he was leaving in search of almighty.
It was at Sadhamalyun that he had many divine experiences of masters and saints of the past. Upon Lakshmana’s request(and as a precondition for his return), his father built a small house in the factory premises, where he could practice his meditation undisturbed. For seven years (1926-1933) he one-pointedly devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit grammar, Indian philosophy and Kashmir Shaiva literature, under the tutelage of Pandit Maheshwar Nath Razdan. He authored his first book, the bhagwadgita, in 1931.
