A few years ago, we often used to meet Swamiji at a place near Dijon where there were many evenings of prayer and singing the glory of God, Jesus and Mary. Everyone brought statues of Mary or a cross from home for the altar as most of them would start to cry oil. The group in those days consisted of only about twenty or thirty people and over time everyone had at some point received a ring from Swami. I neither noticed nor cared at all as I didn’t like jewelry and was quite happy with the pendant from my first interview. It was only when he finally did give me a ring, that I realized that I had been the last one! The ring was a bit too large and didn’t fit properly on any finger so I didn’t really get too excited about it. Around this time I was due to get married which meant I would have another ring to wear. I was thinking about getting a ring with a stone, regular for my wife, but the stone hidden for my ring. 
I will never forget the first time I saw Swami giving birth (or manifesting) a Lingam. It was the birthday’s feast of Goddess Lakshmi. I think that there is no better way of describing that event than giving birth. There was a very strong energy in the air, very much like the festivity and anticipation that precedes the birth of a child. It is interesting to note that the lingam quite often pulsates long after its manifestation. Later on, someone told me that an avatar assimilates the negativity and karma of others, and then processes it through his body to produce something very pure, like a lingam.
The Hiranyagarbha lingam is the primordial creation of God, it is His will itself. The whole universe is inside of it. We all are inside of it.
On one occasion Swami visited his aunt’s place in Beau Bassin. There he saw a lovely picture on the wall in the kitchen and said, “I want that picture. I need it”. – “Here… you can have it”, his aunt replied. Soon after, everyone proceeded to the Rose-Hill ashram where Swami gave his aunt a picture frame in exchange for the picture. She put it behind the door and when she went to get the frame before leaving, to her astonishment, the picture was covered with fuchsia-pink coloured vibhuti. 
On one occasion, while Swami Vishwananda was in Rose Hill in Mauritius, He wanted to get something from the top of the van but He could not reach it, as the roof was too high for Him. He asked me if I would help Him. I put my hands together so that He could use them as a step up to reach the top of the van. I was amazed to find that I could barely feel the weight of Swami Vishwananda! 
Drishti from Germany tells us her story about the ring that Swami Vishwananda materialised for her:
"During the next few months I tried to visit Him as often as I could. I found that many people received a materialised little gift from Him, except me, and I was quite sad about it. I thought He didn’t love me as much as He loved the others. When I went for a consultation in Switzerland, He gave some things to others and I dared to ask Him: “I would also love to have a ring from you.” He smiled at me and answered: “But you don’t need one!” I thought, OK, and went back home feeling a bit sad. Arriving at home, I called a friend who consoled me with the words that it was wonderful that I didn’t receive a ring because I didn’t need one! I should be happy about it, and I was finally all happy again!
Four weeks later, I met Visham again in Switzerland. He had me called as He wanted to speak to me urgently. He said: “Last time I felt sorry that I didn’t give you a ring.” I sat before Him and answered: “But please, don’t feel sorry, I don’t need a ring, I am happy without it.” He smiled at me and said: “Now I make you one!” and He materialised a ring with a big stone on it. The whole atmosphere was filled with Love. The big stone always touched my finger with its top, like permanent acupuncture. Swami told me that the stone was like an antenna which receives the kind of energy that I needed. Sometimes the ring hurts a bit. This is due to the receiving of energy, Swami explained."
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Around the world Swami Vishwananda materialised many rings for devotees. They are a protection for the personn who wears it. Vishwakuruananda remembers the ring that Swami manifested for him: Swami Vishwananda can manifest things since he is a teenager. Many people could see and get such object like rings, vibhuti, pendents and small statues. A close devotee from Mauritius told us the following experience that shows that these manifestations have all a goal: to protect a personn in a time of difficulty:
"Once Swami Vishwananda materialised a very beautiful ring with a diamond set into it for me. Every time we met he would ask me, “The gem is still here?” I would answer that the gem was still in the ring. I found it peculiar that he kept asking me about the gem every time we met. One day my fiancé became very ill and I took him to the clinic where the doctor said he had to be operated on immediately. When the green light was given that he was out of danger, I went to the temple in Rose Hill, Mauritius that had been constructed by Swami. It was only upon entering the temple that I realised that the gem from my ring had disappeared. I was a little scared and sadder still that the gem had disappeared as it was so beautiful. When Swamiji phoned some time later, I told him that the gem had disappeared from my ring. He reassured me, saying that it was perfectly okay and there was nothing to worry about, as the ring had been materialised for the sake of my fiancé.
A resident of Springen told us about the lingam that Swami Vishwananda materialised for him in 1998:
"I witnessed the birth of my lingam. It was transparent and had the shape of an eye. When Swami gave it to me, he pressed it against my third eye. Since then I’ve done the same as a kind of ritual before and after placing it in its water at night. Until it returned to where it came from, I always carried it like a baby around my neck. It stayed with me for over eight years.
My life purpose was often reflected in my professionally life which seemed to revolve around bringing transparency and insight into certain things. In this sense, the lingam served to remind me of my personal destiny which became increasingly visible to me: like any spiritual student, my purpose includes developing insight into the ultimate secrets of life. The lingam represented this eye of deeper in-sight and its formlessness. Being transparent and without colour, it fits very well with my truest nature, which likes to identify itself with the formless, with the absolute.
