Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 12
पञ्चाक्षर-षडक्षरमन्त्र-माहात्म्यम् | The Greatness of the Pañcākṣara/Ṣaḍakṣara Mantra
व्याधीनां भेषजं यद्वत्प्रतिपक्षः स्वभावतः । तद्वत्संसारदोषाणां प्रतिपक्षः शिवस्स्मृतः
vyādhīnāṃ bheṣajaṃ yadvatpratipakṣaḥ svabhāvataḥ | tadvatsaṃsāradoṣāṇāṃ pratipakṣaḥ śivassmṛtaḥ
Как лекарство по своей природе является противодействием болезням, так и Шива помнится как естественная противосила порокам сансары, то есть мирскому узилищу.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Vaidyanatha
Jyotirlinga: Vaidyanātha
Sthala Purana: Śiva as the supreme ‘physician’ (vaidya) who removes the disease of saṃsāra; this verse supports the Vaidyanātha epithet by portraying Śiva as the natural remedy to worldly afflictions (doṣa).
Significance: Darśana and worship for relief from afflictions and for inner purification; doctrinally, the ‘healing’ culminates in pāśa-kṣaya through Śiva’s grace.
Shakti Form: Parvati
Role: nurturing
Offering: pushpa
FAQs
It teaches that Śiva (Pati) is intrinsically the remedy for saṁsāra’s defects—ignorance, karma-bondage, and sorrow—just as medicine naturally counters disease, implying liberation arises through turning to Śiva as the saving power.
By presenting Śiva as the direct counterforce to bondage, it supports Saguna worship—such as Linga-pūjā—as a concrete means to approach the transcendent Lord; the Linga functions as the accessible form through which grace removes saṁsāra-doṣas.
Regular Śiva-upāsanā as the ‘medicine’: japa of the Pañcākṣarī (Om Namaḥ Śivāya), meditation on Śiva as Pati who cuts Pāśa, and steady Linga worship with purity and devotion.