Adhyāya 25 — Liṅga-māhātmya (The Chapter on the Liṅga): Hari’s Śiva-Worship and the Fiery Pillar Theophany
एतद्धि परमं ज्ञानमव्यक्तं शिवसंज्ञितम् / येन सूक्ष्ममचिन्त्यं तत् पश्यन्ति ज्ञान वक्षुषः
etaddhi paramaṃ jñānamavyaktaṃ śivasaṃjñitam / yena sūkṣmamacintyaṃ tat paśyanti jñāna vakṣuṣaḥ
Đây chính là Tri thức tối thượng—vô hiển lộ, được gọi là Śiva—nhờ đó những ai có đôi mắt trí tuệ chiêm kiến Thực Tại ấy: vi tế và bất khả tư nghị.
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) teaching in a Shaiva-Vaishnava synthesis
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
It presents the Supreme Reality as avyakta (unmanifest), sūkṣma (subtle), and acintya (beyond thought), knowable not by ordinary senses but by jñāna—direct wisdom-vision.
The verse points to jñāna-yoga: cultivating the jñāna-cakṣus (eye of knowledge) through disciplined contemplation and inner stillness, by which the subtle, unmanifest Reality is directly ‘seen’.
By calling the supreme, unmanifest Knowledge “Śiva” within a Kurma (Vishnu) discourse, it expresses the Purana’s non-sectarian synthesis: the highest Reality is one, named Śiva/Vishnu according to approach, realized through knowledge.