Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 29
नैमित्तिकविधिक्रमः
Occasional Rites and Their Procedure
शिवसाधर्म्यमासाद्य न भूयो विनिवर्तते । यश्चातीव शिवे भक्तो विषयासक्तचित्तवत्
śivasādharmyamāsādya na bhūyo vinivartate | yaścātīva śive bhakto viṣayāsaktacittavat
शिवसाधर्म्य प्राप्त झाल्यावर तो पुन्हा परत येत नाही। आणि जो शिवावर अत्यंत भक्त आहे, त्याचे चित्त शिवात तितकेच आसक्त होते जितके सामान्याचे चित्त विषयांत आसक्त असते।
Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s liberating teaching as preserved in the Vāyavīya Saṃhitā)
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Sadāśiva
Significance: Defines the fruit of Śiva-bhakti as ‘śiva-sādharmya’ (Śiva-like state) and non-return to bondage; a doctrinal lens for all jyotirliṅga pilgrimages as aiming at transformation, not mere merit.
Type: stotra
Role: liberating
FAQs
It teaches that the highest fruit of Śiva-bhakti is Śiva-sādharmya—becoming Śiva-like in purity and freedom—after which there is no return to saṃsāra; devotion becomes a one-pointed absorption that dissolves bondage.
Saguna worship—such as Linga-upāsanā—trains the mind into steady absorption in Śiva; when devotion matures into unwavering fixation on Him, it culminates in liberation described here as Śiva-sādharmya.
Cultivate single-pointed remembrance of Śiva through japa of the Pañcākṣarī (Om Namaḥ Śivāya), along with disciplined worship (pūjā) and inner dhyāna so the mind clings to Śiva rather than to sense-objects.