Shloka 64
मुक्तयतिदेहसंस्काररहस्यं — The Esoteric Rites for the Bodies of Liberated Ascetics
प्रणवेन ततो दयाद्धूपदीपौ पयोहविः । दत्त्वा प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य नमस्कुर्य्याच्च पंचधा
praṇavena tato dayāddhūpadīpau payohaviḥ | dattvā pradakṣiṇīkṛtya namaskuryyācca paṃcadhā
Pagkatapos, sa pamamagitan ng banal na pantig na Pranava na “Oṁ”, maghandog ng insenso at ilawan, at mag-alay ng havis na gatas. Matapos ang pag-aalay at pag-ikot nang pradakṣiṇā, magpatirapa at magbigay-galang nang limang ulit.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Sadāśiva
FAQs
It teaches that Shiva-puja is completed through mantra (Praṇava), offering (upacāra), and humble surrender—circumambulation and repeated prostration—so devotion becomes embodied, not merely verbal.
Incense, lamp, and milk are classic upacāras offered to the Shiva-Linga, the accessible Saguna form through which the devotee approaches the transcendent Pati (Shiva) with reverence and purity.
Chant Oṁ (and commonly the Panchākṣarī, Om Namaḥ Śivāya), offer dhūpa and dīpa, perform pradakṣiṇā, and do five prostrations as a disciplined sequence of Shiva worship.