Lucknow: People, devotees and followers of Hindu religion knows God of all Gods (Devo-Ke-Dev Mahadev) with many names like Lord Shankar (Bhagwan Shankar) and worship him in the form of ‘Shivling’.
Now in this regards, we would like to tell you all that Lord Shiva is known for his very kind nature for each and every follower who fulfills all desire of his devotees, but if he becomes anger, then he don’t hesitate to do destruction.
The Lord Shankar is known for his two forms of in the world, one for an intuitive human form and second one is gender form, now in most of the temples, their gender forms are seen and people worship him in the form of ‘Shivling’, but do you know that why people worshiped him in the form of Shivling?
People worship Lord Shiva in the form of ‘Shivling’ know reason why?:
Once there was confrontation between Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu related to who is superior among them and when conflict increased so much that both of them started insulting each other, but when this confrontation reached its peak between them a fire column appeared in.
They both were amazed after seeing this fire pillar and could not understand it. Then both of them tries to find out the end of this pillar, lord Brahma went to one end and Vishnu to other end, but both came back after failing to find out the reason.
Later they both noticed that a sound of ‘Om’ is coming out from this fire pillar then they both understood that this is the ‘Shakti’ form of this fire pillar and they started worshiping it.
Which pleased Lord Shankar who appeared in front of them and gave both of them spiritual wisdom (boons of good fortune) and got disappeared. According to Ling Purana, the first gender is considered to be this only.
 with many names like Lord Shankar (Bhagwan Shankar) and worship him in the form of 'Shivling'.){kind=link}
