In the beginning is quantity, or manifold, as the founder of set theory, G. Cantor, expresses it. Kirpal Singh found out immediately from his 'master' in Beas, that both of the primal principles, the SHINES and the SPEAKS, are not only theoretically substantial, but can and must be experienced in practice.

The master's 'gaze-image' and his evocation of a traditional, 'holy' name offers ideally structured combinations of both of our primal principles, especially found in it's meditative, but naturally also in it's physical form. After all - as is evident in psychoanalysis, too - these two (or more) primal principles (known as drives in psychoanalysis) never blend completely.

There is no getting around this severance, or division. And, life is easier, if we not only recognize them theoretically but also practically, and retain them within ourselves as far as possible - either together, or in a combined fashion.

Therefore, for the right combination, I always try to raise a slash (fraction stroke) between the SHINES / SPEAKS. This stroke simultaneously separates and connects, and ideally illustrates a prone position as is also expressed through the upright sitting position in meditation as well as a rising of the erotisized probing spirit between the two primal principles.

But it also symbolizes the psychoanalytical way of the raising of the transference, the emphasis of the metaphoric father, which is accompanied by the idea of the transcendental, symbolic phallus, of 'female pleasure' as I mentioned above. This pertains to a pleasure between the here and the hereafter, which is contained in the creative process of symbolization. It is similar to what Hindu religion calls lingam, an erective or phallus symbol. The simplified lingam figure indicates the power, creativity and potency of the god Shiva and is found in many of India's temples. In contrast to the opinions of many western scholars, the lingam does not directly depict the phallus, the phallus as such nor by any means everyone's phallus.

It is not just a phallus symbol. It is the phallus of a god, the power of a privileged entity and if you would like to express it philosophically: a transcendental phallus. Indeed, it stands for Shiva's name, the Divine, or primal ancestor, the symbolic father as such. And so, it stands for an aspect of the "feminine object" or - and this is not paradoxically - also the "Fathers Name".