Vamana Purana — Vishnu's Sleep (Ashunya-Shayana), Shloka 31
The Caturmasya Observances and the Rite of Vishnu’s Sleep (Aśūnya-Śayana) and Shiva’s Monthly Vows
तस्यां सर्वेषु लिङ्गेषु तिथौ स्वपिति शङ्करः वसते संनिधाने तु तत्र पूजाक्षया स्मृता
tasyāṃ sarveṣu liṅgeṣu tithau svapiti śaṅkaraḥ vasate saṃnidhāne tu tatra pūjākṣayā smṛtā
ಆ ತಿಥಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಲಿಂಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಶಂಕರನು ‘ಶಯನಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ’ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ; ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನ ಸನ್ನಿಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪೂಜೆ ಅಕ್ಷಯಫಲದಾಯಕವೆಂದು ಸ್ಮೃತವಾಗಿದೆ.
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FAQs
The teaching emphasizes steadfast worship and the accessibility of the divine: Śiva is not confined to a single shrine but is present through all liṅgas, making sincere devotion universally efficacious.
This is primarily tīrtha/arcana-śāstra style instruction within Purāṇic discourse—ritual theology explaining when and why worship becomes ‘akṣaya’; it is not a genealogical or cosmogenic unit.
‘Śiva sleeps in all liṅgas’ can symbolize a concentrated, hidden immanence of the deity on the sacred time-node (Kālāṣṭamī). ‘Akṣaya pūjā’ signals that worship aligned with that immanence yields enduring spiritual capital.