Shloka 134
बन्धमोक्षवर्णनम्
Bondage and Liberation: The Prakṛti–Karma Wheel and Śiva as the Transcendent Cause
त्वत्स्वरूपेर्पिता बुद्धिर्नतेऽशून्ये च रोचति । या चास्त्यस्मदहंतेति त्वयि दृष्टे विवर्जिता
tvatsvarūperpitā buddhirnate'śūnye ca rocati | yā cāstyasmadahaṃteti tvayi dṛṣṭe vivarjitā
جب عقل تیری ہی ذاتِ حقیقی میں سپرد ہو جائے تو وہ ‘لاشُونیہ’ یعنی کسی بھی موضوعی سہارے میں لذت نہیں پاتی۔ اور ‘میں یہ ہوں’ والا اَہنکار، تجھے سچّا دیکھ لینے پر ترک ہو جاتا ہے۔
Lord Shiva (teaching within the Vidyeśvarasaṃhitā context on realization and ego-transcendence)
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Dakṣiṇāmūrti
Jyotirlinga: Viśvanātha
Sthala Purana: Kāśī’s Viśveśvara is presented as the revealer of liberating knowledge: when buddhi is surrendered into Śiva’s svarūpa, object-support (ālambana) and ahaṃtā fall away—this is the jñāna-side of Kāśī’s promise of mokṣa.
Significance: Frames pilgrimage not merely as external merit but as inner transformation: ego-thinning and surrender culminating in Śiva-darśana (realization).
Role: teaching
FAQs
It teaches that liberation arises when buddhi is surrendered into Shiva’s svarūpa; then attachment to external supports and the ego-notion “I am this” naturally falls away through Shiva-darśana (direct realization).
Saguna worship (Linga, mantra, pūjā) steadies the mind and refines buddhi; as devotion matures, awareness is led to Shiva’s essential nature beyond object-supports, where ego-identification is relinquished.
Meditative surrender: japa of the Pañcākṣarī (Om Namaḥ Śivāya) with inward offering of thoughts into Shiva, combined with steady contemplation that dissolves ahaṃtā rather than feeding it.