Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 80
अनुग्रह-स्वातन्त्र्य-प्रमाणविचारः | Inquiry into Pramāṇa, Divine Autonomy, and Grace
निदानभूतैस्संसाररोगः पुंसां प्रवर्तते । अस्य रोगस्य भैषज्यं ज्ञानमेव न चापरम्
nidānabhūtaissaṃsārarogaḥ puṃsāṃ pravartate | asya rogasya bhaiṣajyaṃ jñānameva na cāparam
Aus den Ursachen, die ihm als Grundlage dienen, entsteht bei den Menschen die Krankheit des Saṃsāra, die weltliche Gebundenheit. Für diese Krankheit ist allein Erkenntnis (jñāna) das Heilmittel; ein anderes gibt es nicht.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Dakṣiṇāmūrti
Jyotirlinga: Vaidyanātha
Sthala Purana: Vaidyanātha is revered as Śiva the supreme physician; the sthala tradition links healing and release from afflictions through Śiva’s grace, often narrated with Śiva restoring wholeness and granting boons to devotees who seek cure and liberation.
Significance: Healing of bodily and existential ‘saṃsāra-roga’; seeking Śiva’s anugraha through darśana and worship, especially in the Śrāvaṇa pilgrimage season.
Type: mahamrityunjaya
Role: liberating
FAQs
It frames saṃsāra as a curable illness whose root is causation born of bondage and ignorance; liberation comes through jñāna—right knowledge that reveals Shiva (Pati) and loosens the pasha (bond).
Linga-worship and devotion to Saguna Shiva are supports that purify the mind; this verse highlights that the final cure is liberating knowledge—direct insight into Shiva as the ultimate reality beyond worldly entanglement.
Cultivate jñāna through Shiva-oriented meditation and scriptural contemplation—supported by steady japa of the Panchakshara (Om Namaḥ Śivāya) and disciplined worship that turns the mind inward toward truth.