Shloka 66
भैरवावतारवर्णनम् (Bhairavāvatāra-varṇanam) — “Description of the Descent/Manifestation of Bhairava”
नन्दीश्वर उवाच । नियोज्य तामिति तदा ब्रह्महत्यां च ताम्प्रभुः । महाद्भुतश्च स शिवोऽप्यन्तर्धानमगात्ततः
nandīśvara uvāca | niyojya tāmiti tadā brahmahatyāṃ ca tāmprabhuḥ | mahādbhutaśca sa śivo'pyantardhānamagāttataḥ
Nandīśvara said: Having thus assigned her—Brahmahatyā—to her appointed course, the Lord, the wondrous Śiva, then disappeared from that place.
Nandīśvara
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Mahadeva
FAQs
It shows Śiva as Pati (the Supreme Lord) who regulates even grave karmic forces like Brahmahatyā—assigning their operation according to dharma—yet Himself remains untouched and transcendent, withdrawing after establishing cosmic order.
Śiva’s “disappearance” highlights that the Saguna Lord who acts in the world is also beyond form and grasp; Linga-worship trains the devotee to recognize this—approaching the manifest symbol while contemplating the unmanifest Reality it signifies.
A practical takeaway is purification through japa of the Pañcākṣarī (“Om Namaḥ Śivāya”) with Tripuṇḍra (bhasma) and Rudrākṣa, cultivating repentance, restraint, and surrender to Śiva’s governance of karma.