Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 13
सर्गविभागवर्णनम्
Classification of Creation: the Nine Sargas and the Streams of Beings
खादनाश्चाप्यशीलाश्च भूताद्याः परिकीर्तिताः । प्रथमो महतः सर्गो ब्रह्मणः परमेष्ठिनः । तन्मात्राणां द्वितीयस्तु भूतसर्गः स उच्यते । वैकारिकस्तृतीयस्तु सर्ग ऐन्द्रियकः स्मृतः
khādanāścāpyaśīlāśca bhūtādyāḥ parikīrtitāḥ | prathamo mahataḥ sargo brahmaṇaḥ parameṣṭhinaḥ | tanmātrāṇāṃ dvitīyastu bhūtasargaḥ sa ucyate | vaikārikastṛtīyastu sarga aindriyakaḥ smṛtaḥ
‘ഖാദന’ ‘അശീല’ മുതലായ വർഗങ്ങൾ ഭൂതാദി ജീവികളായി പരികീർത്തിതമാണ്. പരമേഷ്ഠി ബ്രഹ്മാവാൽ മഹത്തത്ത്വത്തിന്റെ വികാസം ആദ്യ സൃഷ്ടി. തന്മാത്രകളുടെ സൃഷ്ടി രണ്ടാമത്; അതിനാൽ അത് ഭൂതസർഗ്ഗം എന്നു വിളിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. മൂന്നാമത് ‘വൈകാരിക’ സർഗ്ഗം; ഇന്ദ്രിയശക്തികളുടെ സൃഷ്ടിയെന്നു സ്മൃതം.
Suta Goswami (narrating the Vāyavīya teachings to the sages at Naimisharanya)
Tattva Level: pasha
Shiva Form: Sadyojāta
Role: creative
Cosmic Event: tattva-sṛṣṭi (emanation of mahat, tanmātras, indriyas)
FAQs
It maps how manifestation unfolds from Mahat to subtle potentials and then to the sense-powers, implying that liberation in Shaiva thought involves tracing experience back through these layers to the Lord (Pati) who transcends them.
By identifying the senses and their creations as part of prakṛti’s evolutes, it encourages Linga/Saguna Shiva worship as a disciplined means to withdraw attention from sensory dispersion and re-center it on Shiva, the transcendent ground beyond Mahat and the tanmātras.
A practical takeaway is sense-restraint (indriya-nigraha) supported by japa of the Panchakshara (Om Namaḥ Śivāya) and inner contemplation that the senses and their objects are evolutes, not the Self nor Shiva.