Shloka 28
Kāla-vañcana (Overcoming/Outwitting Time) and the Pañcabhūta Basis of the Body
सर्वज्ञस्सर्वदर्शी च सर्वसिद्धिमवाप्नुयात् । यथा नदति खेऽब्दो हि प्रावृडद्भिस्सुसंयतः
sarvajñassarvadarśī ca sarvasiddhimavāpnuyāt | yathā nadati khe'bdo hi prāvṛḍadbhissusaṃyataḥ
সে সর্বজ্ঞ ও সর্বদর্শী হয় এবং সকল সিদ্ধি লাভ করে। যেমন বর্ষার জলে সুসংহত মেঘ আকাশে গর্জে ওঠে, তেমনি সংযমী সাধক অন্তর্নিগ্রহজাত শক্তি প্রকাশ করে।
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pashu
Sthala Purana: Not a Jyotirliṅga episode; it describes fruits of saṃyama: sarvajñatā, sarvadarśitā, and sarva-siddhi, illustrated by the monsoon cloud metaphor.
Significance: Encourages inner restraint as the condition for Śiva’s grace manifesting as clarity and capability (siddhi), while implicitly warning that such powers should be subordinated to liberation.
Cosmic Event: Monsoon imagery (prāvṛṭ) used as a natural-cosmic analogy for accumulated inner potency.
FAQs
The verse praises saṃyama (inner restraint) as the cause of purified awareness—leading to expanded knowledge and vision—and ultimately to siddhi, which in Shaiva Siddhanta is meaningful only when aligned toward Shiva-realization and liberation.
Linga-worship and Saguna Shiva-upasana are strengthened by disciplined senses and steady mind; the verse implies that such restraint makes devotion potent, so grace and spiritual clarity arise naturally, like thunder from a rain-filled cloud.
It points toward saṃyama-based practice: steady japa of the Panchakshara (Om Namaḥ Śivāya), breath-discipline, and regulated conduct—so the mind becomes ‘well-compacted’ and capable of sustained Shiva-dhyana.