Gyani Pandit Ji - About Adiyogi (Lord Shiva)

About Adiyogi

आदियोगी शिव प्रतिमा, शंकर की ११२ मीटर ऊँची प्रतिमा है जो कोयम्बटूर में वर्ष २०१७ में स्थापित की गयी थी। इसकी अभिकल्पना (डिजाइन) सद्गुरु जग्गी वासुदेव ने की है। सद्गुरु का विचार है कि यह प्रतिमा योग के प्रति लोगों में प्रेरणा जगाने के लिये हैं, इसीलिये इसका नाम 'आदियोगी' (=प्रथम योगी) है। शिव को योग का प्रवर्तक माना जाता है।

Adiyogi Shiva was inaugurated on 24 February 2017 by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri – a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of Shiva. The Indian Ministry of Tourism has included the statue as a consecration destination in its official Incredible India campaign.The Adiyogi Statue has been recognized as the "Largest Bust Sculpture" by Guinness World Records.
Adiyogi Shiva is located at the Isha Yoga complex which houses the Dhyanalinga in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu at the foothills of Velliangiri Mountains, a range in the Western Ghats.The statue was designed over two years and manufactured within eight months. The bust is cast in steel. The height of the statue, 112 feet, symbolizes the 112 possibilities to attain to moksha (liberation) that are mentioned in yogic culture. Sadhguru also said that the height represents the 112 chakras in the human system.

The Isha Foundation plans to erect such statues in three more locations in the eastern, western and northern parts of India - in Varanasi, Mumbai and Delhi.The statue's face is world's tallest bust of Shiva.The tallest Shiva statue is the Kailashnath Mahadev Statue in Nepal 20-km east of the capital, Katmandu, which is 143 feet (44 m) tall.


A Shivalinga called "Yogeshwar Linga" was consecrated through the ceremony called prana pratishtha, and is placed in front of the Adiyogi Shiva statue. This linga has five chakras – Muladhara (root chakra), Svadhishthana (sacral chakra), Manipura (solar plexus chakra), Vishuddhi (throat chakra), and Ajna (third eye chakra), and each one of them has sixteen dimensions. The linga specifically has no Anahata (heart chakra) as it is to represent a "a heartless yogi", not heartless as being insensitive but inclusive who doesn't need emotions.Sadhguru notes that the statue is named as "Adiyogi", which means "the first yogi", as Shiva is known as the originator of yoga.The South-facing Adiyogi is also called Dakshinamurthy and Adi Guru (first Guru).

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