Shloka 76
Paramātma-Svarūpa-Nirṇaya: Strī–Puṃ–Napuṃsaka-Vicāra
Inquiry into the Supreme Self and Gendered Forms
शिवादभिन्नं न जगदात्मानं भिन्नमित्यपि । जानतोऽस्य पशोरेव मोहो भवति न प्रभो
śivādabhinnaṃ na jagadātmānaṃ bhinnamityapi | jānato'sya paśoreva moho bhavati na prabho
Selbst wenn das gebundene „Paśu“ erkennt: „Das Selbst des Universums ist nicht verschieden von Śiva“, aber dennoch denkt: „Es ist verschieden“, so gehört die Verblendung allein dem Paśu, nicht dem Herrn (Prabhu).
Lord Shiva (teaching in the Kailasha Samhita discourse)
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Dakṣiṇāmūrti
Type: stotra
Role: teaching
FAQs
It distinguishes the Lord (Pati/Prabhu), who is never deluded, from the bound soul (paśu), whose bondage persists as contradictory cognition—affirming Śiva’s all-pervasion yet reasserting separation—until grace and right knowledge become steady.
Linga/Saguna worship trains the paśu’s mind to dwell on Śiva as the indwelling reality of all; as devotion and purity mature, the sense of separateness that fuels moha weakens, aligning experience with the truth that the universe’s Self is inseparable from Śiva.
Steady japa of the Pañcākṣarī (Om Namaḥ Śivāya) with dhyāna on Śiva as the inner Self, supported by Śaiva disciplines like bhasma (tripuṇḍra) and rudrākṣa, is implied as a practical means to dissolve moha and stabilize right understanding.