Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 23
शिवस्य विश्वव्याप्तिः—अष्टमूर्तिः पञ्चब्रह्म च | Śiva’s Cosmic Pervasion: Aṣṭamūrti and the Pañcabrahma Forms
स्पंदयत्यनिलात्मदं बिभर्ति स्पंदते स्वयम् । औग्रीति कथ्यते सद्भिर्मूर्तिरुग्रस्य वेधसः । सर्वावकाशदा सर्वव्यापिका गगनात्मिका । मूर्तिर्भीमस्य भीमाख्या भूतवृंदस्य भेदिका
spaṃdayatyanilātmadaṃ bibharti spaṃdate svayam | augrīti kathyate sadbhirmūrtirugrasya vedhasaḥ | sarvāvakāśadā sarvavyāpikā gaganātmikā | mūrtirbhīmasya bhīmākhyā bhūtavṛṃdasya bhedikā
ಅವಳು ಪ್ರಾಣವಾಯುವನ್ನು ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸಿಸುತ್ತದೆ, ಅದನ್ನು ಧರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ, ತಾನೇ ಆ ಸ್ಪಂದನವಾಗಿ ಕಂಪಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಸಜ್ಜನರು ಅವಳನ್ನು ಉಗ್ರ ವೇಧಸ (ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಕರ್ತ)ನ ‘ಔಗ್ರೀ’ ಮೂರ್ತಿ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅವಳು ಸರ್ವಾವಕಾಶದಾತ್ರೀ, ಸರ್ವವ್ಯಾಪಿನಿ, ಗಗನಸ್ವರೂಪಿಣಿ; ಇದೇ ಭೀಮನ ‘ಭೀಮಾ’ ಎಂಬ ಖ್ಯಾತ ಮೂರ್ತಿ, ಭೂತವೃಂದದ ಬಂಧಗಳನ್ನು ಭೇದಿಸುವವಳು.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Bhairava
Type: stotra
Shakti Form: Kālī
Role: destructive
Offering: dhupa
FAQs
It presents Shiva’s śakti as the inner “pulsation” (spanda) that moves and sustains prāṇa and also as vast, sky-like all-pervasion—showing Pati as both immanent in life-breath and transcendent as boundless space, with the power to break bondage.
By naming Aūgrī and Bhīmā as forms of Ugra (Shiva), it supports Saguna worship: devotees contemplate specific divine aspects—fierce, protective, and liberating—while understanding that the same Shiva pervades all as prāṇa and ākāśa.
A practical takeaway is prāṇa-dhyāna: meditate on the breath’s subtle movement as Shiva’s spanda, then expand awareness into all-pervading space (ākāśa-bhāvanā), mentally repeating a Shiva mantra such as the Pañcākṣarī (“Om Namaḥ Śivāya”).