Shloka 68
देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च
कालयोगी महानादो महोत्साहो महाबलः महाबुद्धिर् महावीर्यो भूतचारी पुरन्दरः
kālayogī mahānādo mahotsāho mahābalaḥ mahābuddhir mahāvīryo bhūtacārī purandaraḥ
He is Kāla-yogī, the Yogi who masters Time; the Great Sound (Mahā-nāda). Of immense zeal and mighty strength, of vast intelligence and great heroism. He moves among all beings, and as Purandara, the “Destroyer of strongholds,” He shatters the fortified bonds of pāśa that confine the paśu.
Suta Goswami
FAQs
These names praise Shiva as the inner power of yoga (kālayogī) and the cosmic principle of nāda; in Linga worship, they frame the Linga as the sign of Pati—the Lord who empowers practice and dissolves bondage for the devotee.
Shiva is presented as transcending time while governing it, as the primal vibration (mahānāda), and as the supreme strength, intelligence, and vīrya that can break the ‘fortresses’ of limitation—revealing Him as Pati who liberates the pashu from pāśa.
The verse points to time-transcending yogic absorption and nāda-oriented contemplation; it supports Pāśupata-oriented sādhanā where devotion and yoga are aimed at cutting bonds rather than merely gaining worldly power.