Shloka 133
बन्धमोक्षवर्णनम्
Bondage and Liberation: The Prakṛti–Karma Wheel and Śiva as the Transcendent Cause
सहस्रमयुतं लक्षं कोटिं वा कारयेद् बुधः । नमस्कारात्मयज्ञेन तुष्टाः स्युः सर्वदेवताः
sahasramayutaṃ lakṣaṃ koṭiṃ vā kārayed budhaḥ | namaskārātmayajñena tuṣṭāḥ syuḥ sarvadevatāḥ
Whether a wise devotee performs a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or even a crore of acts of worship, by the sacrifice whose very essence is reverent prostration (namaskāra), all the deities become pleased.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Mahādeva
Jyotirlinga: Viśvanātha
Sthala Purana: The text elevates namaskāra itself as a yajña (namaskārātma-yajña): even without costly materials, repeated reverent surrender pleases the devatās—ultimately harmonizing the devotee’s life around Viśveśvara’s worship in Kāśī.
Significance: Affirms a universal, low-barrier practice for pilgrims and householders: prostration as an inner sacrifice that gathers the fruits of many rites and wins divine favor.
FAQs
It teaches that sincere surrender—expressed as namaskāra offered as a yajña—has spiritual potency beyond mere numerical ritualism, aligning the devotee with devotion (bhakti) that pleases the divine order.
In Linga/Saguna Shiva worship, outward rites are sanctified by inner humility; repeated prostration before Shiva’s symbol becomes an offering of ego, and such bhakti naturally harmonizes and pleases all devatās.
Perform repeated namaskāras as a disciplined offering (namaskāra-yajña), ideally alongside simple Shiva upāsanā such as mental japa of “Om Namaḥ Śivāya,” keeping the focus on reverence and surrender.