Shloka 42
Devī-tattva, Śakti–Śaktimān doctrine, Kāla–Māyā cosmology, and Māheśvara Yoga instruction
एका शक्तिः शिवैको ऽपि शक्तिमानुच्यते शिवः / शक्तयः शक्तिमन्तो ऽन्ये सर्वशक्तिसमुद्भवाः
ekā śaktiḥ śivaiko 'pi śaktimānucyate śivaḥ / śaktayaḥ śaktimanto 'nye sarvaśaktisamudbhavāḥ
ศักติมีเพียงหนึ่งเดียว และศิวะผู้เป็นหนึ่งนั้นถูกเรียกว่า ‘ศักติมาน’ ผู้ทรงศักติ ศักติทั้งหลายและผู้ทรงศักติอื่น ๆ ล้วนเกิดจากศักติอันครบถ้วนนี้।
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) teaching the Ishvara Gita discourse
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It presents the Supreme as a single ultimate Reality described through Śiva and His Śakti—one source from which all manifested powers and empowered beings arise, implying a unitary ground behind multiplicity.
The verse supports Ishvara-centric meditation in Pāśupata-oriented practice: contemplate the Lord as both Power (Śakti) and the Possessor of Power (Śaktimān), so the mind gathers from many forces into one supreme source.
Within the Kurma Purana’s synthesis, Vishnu (as Lord Kurma) teaches a Shaiva doctrine: Śiva is the supreme empowered Lord with one Śakti as the source of all energies—showing doctrinal unity rather than sectarian separation.