Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 25
त्रिमूर्तिसाम्यं तथा महेश्वरस्य परमार्थकारणत्वम् | Equality of the Trimūrti and Maheśvara as the Supreme Cause
त्रिधा विभज्य चात्मानं त्रैलोक्ये संप्रवर्तते । सृजते ग्रसते चैव वीक्षते च त्रिभिस्स्वयम्
tridhā vibhajya cātmānaṃ trailokye saṃpravartate | sṛjate grasate caiva vīkṣate ca tribhissvayam
സ്വസ്വരൂപത്തെ ത്രിധാ വിഭജിച്ച് അവൻ ത്രിലോകമാകെ പ്രവർത്തനശീലനാകുന്നു. ആ മൂന്നു ശക്തികളാൽ അവൻ സ്വയം സൃഷ്ടിക്കുന്നു, സംഹരിക്കുന്നു, കൂടാതെ സർവ്വത്തെയും നിരീക്ഷിച്ച് ഭരിക്കുന്നു.
Suta Goswami (narrating the Vāyavīya teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Sadāśiva
Role: nurturing
Cosmic Event: tri-world governance (cosmic administration across trailokya)
FAQs
It presents Shiva as Pati (the Supreme Lord) who manifests three operative powers for the cosmos—creation, withdrawal (dissolution), and governance—while remaining the one Self behind all change, guiding the soul beyond pasha (bondage).
The Linga signifies the one Shiva who is beyond form, yet this verse explains His Saguna activity in the three worlds through manifest functions; worship of the Linga trains the devotee to see all cosmic processes as Shiva’s conscious governance.
Meditate on Shiva as the inner ruler of all three states and worlds while repeating the Panchakshara “Om Namaḥ Śivāya,” offering all experiences—arising, changing, and dissolving—into the Linga as acts of surrender.