Shloka 31
दक्षयज्ञे सत्या अपमानबोधः — Satī Encounters Disrespect at Dakṣa’s Sacrifice
अमंगलस्तु ते भर्ता शिवोसौ गम्यते बुधैः । अकुलीको वेदबाह्यो भूतप्रेतपिशाचराट्
amaṃgalastu te bhartā śivosau gamyate budhaiḥ | akulīko vedabāhyo bhūtapretapiśācarāṭ
“Your husband—this Śiva—is indeed considered inauspicious, so the learned deem. He is outside the clan-bound norms, beyond the Vedic social codes, and is the lord who rules over bhūtas, pretas, and piśācas.”
Daksha (speaking in contempt about Lord Shiva, within Sati Khanda’s narrative as relayed by Suta Goswami)
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Bhairava
Shakti Form: Satī
Role: liberating
FAQs
The verse shows how worldly pride judges Shiva through social and ritual labels, while Shaiva Siddhanta emphasizes Shiva as Pati—transcendent, compassionate, and not confined to caste-clan identity. What appears “inauspicious” to ego-bound vision becomes the very sign of Shiva’s freedom from worldly limitation and his lordship over all beings.
Daksha’s criticism targets Shiva’s outward, ascetic Saguna form (dwelling with bhūtas, beyond social convention). Linga-worship in the Shiva Purana trains the devotee to see the same Shiva as pure consciousness and supreme Lord, beyond external markers—thus reversing the gaze from social judgment to inner devotion.
The practical takeaway is to abandon status-based pride and take refuge in Shiva through bhakti and japa—especially the Panchakshara mantra “Om Namah Shivaya”—while cultivating inner purity; external judgments of “auspicious/inauspicious” are to be transcended in meditation on Shiva as the supreme Pati.