एका शक्तिः शिवैको ऽपि शक्तिमानुच्यते शिवः / शक्तयः शक्तिमन्तो ऽन्ये सर्वशक्तिसमुद्भवाः
ekā śaktiḥ śivaiko 'pi śaktimānucyate śivaḥ / śaktayaḥ śaktimanto 'nye sarvaśaktisamudbhavāḥ
Chỉ có một Năng lực (Śakti); và chỉ một Śiva cũng được gọi là Đấng mang Năng lực (Śaktimān). Mọi năng lực khác cùng các chủ thể của chúng đều phát sinh từ toàn thể Năng lực ấy.
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) teaching the Ishvara Gita discourse
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
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.