Shloka 22
सृष्टिवर्णनम्
Cosmogony and the Roles of the Trimūrti
पूज्यांस्तैरयजन्देवानित्येवमनुशुश्रुम । मुखाद्देवानजनयत्पितॄंश्चैवाथ वक्षसः । प्रजनाच्च मनुष्यान्वै जघनान्निर्ममेऽसुरान्
pūjyāṃstairayajandevānityevamanuśuśruma | mukhāddevānajanayatpitṝṃścaivātha vakṣasaḥ | prajanācca manuṣyānvai jaghanānnirmame'surān
我们如是听闻：他们礼敬诸天（Deva），以为皆堪受崇敬。由他的口中生出诸天；由他的胸中化出祖灵（Pitṛ）；由其生殖之力造成人类；由其腰胯造作阿修罗。
Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya, as typical of the Shiva Purana frame)
Tattva Level: pasha
Shiva Form: Tatpuruṣa
Type: stotra
Offering: naivedya
Cosmic Event: Varṇa/gaṇa-like differentiation of beings in early creation; mapping of cosmic functions to bodily loci
FAQs
The verse maps cosmic diversity into ordered origins, implying that different classes of beings arise from distinct functions within manifestation; in Shaiva Siddhanta, such hierarchy ultimately points beyond limited creators to Pati (Shiva) as the supreme source who grants right knowledge and liberation.
It shows that Devas may be worshipped as “pūjya” within the manifested order, yet Shaiva teaching places such worship within a higher trajectory—leading the devotee toward Saguna Shiva (Linga worship) as the most efficacious support for grace, purification, and ascent to the supreme.
The takeaway is to align worship with the highest refuge: perform Shiva-puja (Linga worship) with mantra-japa—especially the Panchakshara “Om Namaḥ Śivāya”—as the purifying discipline that transcends merely worldly aims associated with lower orders of beings.