Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 55
बुध उवाच । नमः पूतात्मने तुभ्यं ज्योतीरूप नमोस्तु ते । विश्वरूप नमस्तुभ्यं रूपातीताय ते नमः
budha uvāca | namaḥ pūtātmane tubhyaṃ jyotīrūpa namostu te | viśvarūpa namastubhyaṃ rūpātītāya te namaḥ
Budha sprach: Verehrung Dir, dem reinen Selbst; Verehrung Dir, dessen Gestalt Licht ist. Verehrung Dir, der Gestalt des Universums; Verehrung Dir, der jede Gestalt übersteigt.
Budha
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Budha stands before the liṅga, hands folded, offering a fourfold salutation: to the Pure Self, to Light-form, to the Universe-form, and to the One beyond form—suggesting a radiance that expands from shrine to cosmos.
FAQs
Śiva is both immanent (light, universe-form) and transcendent (beyond all form), worthy of devotion and surrender.
Kāśī is the implied sacred setting; the praise aligns with Kāśī’s vision of Śiva as the ever-present Light.
The prescription is devotional: offering namaskāra and stuti (hymnic praise) to Śiva.