THE MIND IS JUST ASH,

COVERING ANY VISION OF YOU.

THAT IS WHY YOU CHOSE THE HEART,

TO SHOW YOUR GLORY AND GOODNESS.

THE MIND IS IN VAIN, ARROGANT,

IT WAS NEVER A DOCILE DEVOTEE.

BUT THE HEART IS HUMBLE,

AND CAN BE A DOCILE PLACE
WHERE TO SPILL ABUNDANTLY
ALL YOUR GRACE AND LOVE.

|| दशश्ललोककी ||

|| DASHASHLOKI ||

न ननातना पपितना वना न ददेवना न ललोकना:

न ददेवना न यजना न ततीरर्थं बब्रुवपनत |
सब्रुषब्रुपप्तौ पनरस्तनापतशशूनयनात्मकत्वनातत
तददेकलोऽवपशषष्टः पशवष्टः कदे वललोऽहमत || ३ ||

NA NATA PITA VA NA DEVA NA LOKAH

NA DEVA NA YAJNA NA TIRTHAM BRUVANTI |
SUSHUPTAU NIRASTATISHUNYATMAKATVAT
TADEKO-VASHISHTAH SHIVAH KEVALO-HAM || 3 ||

I AM NEITHER MOTHER, NOR FATHER,

NOR THE GODS, NOR THE WORLDS,
NOR THE VEDAS, NOR SACRIFICES,
NOR ANY HOLY PLACE; FOR, IN DEEP
SLEEP I AM (IDENTICAL WITH BRAHMAN
WHICH HOWEVER IS) NOT ABSOLUTE
NON EXISTENCE. I AM THEREFORE
THE SECONDLESS, UNCONTRADICTABLE
ATTRIBUTELESS BLISS (SHIVA). || 3 ||

DASHASHLOKI - THE TEN-VERSED HYMN

ADI SHANKARACHARYA

|| SHIVA TATTVA ||

BY SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

IN ME THE UNIVERSE HAD ITS ORIGIN,

IN ME ALONE THE WHOLE SUBSISTS;
IN ME IT IS LOST-SIVA,
THE TIMELESS, IT IS I MYSELF,
SIVOHAM! SIVOHAM! SIVOHAM!

SALUTATIONS TO LORD SIVA

THE VANQUISHER OF CUPID, THE BESTOWER

OF ETERNAL BLISS AND IMMORTALITY, THE
PROTECTOR OF ALL BEINGS, DESTROYER OF
SINS, THE LORD OF THE GODS, WHO WEARS
A TIGER-SKIN, THE BEST AMONG OBJECTS OF
WORSHIP, THROUGH WHOSE MATTED HAIR
THE GANGA FLOWS.

LORD SIVA IS THE PURE, CHANGELESS,

ATTRIBUTELESS, ALL-PERVADING TRANSCENDENTAL
CONSCIOUSNESS. HE IS THE INACTIVE (NISHKRIYA)
PURUSHA. PRAKRITI IS DANCING ON HIS BREAST
AND PERFORMING THE CREATIVE, PRESERVATIVE
AND DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES.

WHEN THERE IS NEITHER LIGHT NOR DARKNESS,

NEITHER FORM NOR ENERGY, NEITHER SOUND NOR
MATTER, WHEN THERE IS NO MANIFESTATION OF
PHENOMENAL EXISTENCE, SIVA ALONE EXISTS IN
HIMSELF. HE IS TIMELESS, SPACELESS, BIRTHLESS,
DEATHLESS, DECAYLESS. HE IS BEYOND THE PAIRS
OF OPPOSITES.

HE IS THE IMPERSONAL ABSOLUTE BRAHMAN.

HE IS UNTOUCHED BY PLEASURE AND PAIN, GOOD
AND EVIL. HE CANNOT BE SEEN BY THE EYES BUT
HE CAN BE REALISED WITHIN THE HEART THROUGH
DEVOTION AND MEDITATION.

SIVA IS ALSO THE SUPREME PERSONAL GOD WHEN

HE IS IDENTIFIED WITH HIS POWER. HE IS THEN
OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT ACTIVE GOD. HE
DANCES IN SUPREME JOY AND CREATES, SUSTAINS
AND DESTROYS WITH THE RHYTHM OF HIS DANCING
MOVEMENTS.

HE DESTROYS ALL BONDAGE, LIMITATION AND

SORROW OF HIS DEVOTEES. HE IS THE GIVER OF
MUKTI OR THE FINAL EMANCIPATION. HE IS THE
UNIVERSAL SELF. HE IS THE TRUE SELF OF ALL
CREATURES. HE IS THE DWELLER IN THE
CREMATION-GROUND, IN THE REGION OF THE
DEAD, THOSE WHO ARE DEAD TO THE WORLD.

THE JIVAS AND THE WORLD ORIGINATE FROM HIM,

EXIST IN HIM, ARE SUSTAINED AND REJECTED BY
HIM AND ARE ULTIMATELY MERGED IN HIM. HE IS
THE SUPPORT, SOURCE AND SUBSTRATUM OF THE
WHOLE WORLD. HE IS AN EMBODIMENT OF TRUTH,
BEAUTY, GOODNESS AND BLISS. HE IS SATYAM,
SIVAM, SUBHAM, SUNDARAM, KANTAM.

HE IS THE GOD OF GODS, DEVA-DEVA. HE IS THE GREAT

DEITY-MAHADEVA. HE IS THE GOD OF MANES (PRAJAPATI).
HE IS THE MOST AWE-INSPIRING AND TERRIFYING DEITY,
RUDRA, WITH TRISUL OR TRIDENT IN HIS HAND. HE IS THE
MOST EASILY PLEASED (ASUTOSHA). HE IS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.
EVEN THE UNTOUCHABLE CHANDALAS AND THE ILLITERATE
RUSTICS CAN APPROACH HIM.

HE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.

HE IS AN IDEAL YOGI AND MUNI. HE IS THE IDEAL HEAD
OF AN IDEAL FAMILY WITH UMA AS HIS DEVOTED WIFE,
LORD SUBRAHMANYA, THE BRAVE GENERAL OF STRENGTH
AND COURAGE, LORD GANESA, THE REMOVER OF ALL
OBSTACLES.

अततीत: पिपंरनानपं तव च
मपहमना वनाङ्मनसयलो:
अतद्व्यनाववृत्त्यना यपं
चपकतमपभिधतदे शब्रुपतरपपि |
स कस्य स्तलोतव्य:
कपतपपिधगब्रुण: कस्य पवषय:
पिददे त्ववनार्वाचतीनदे पितपत न मन:
कस्य न वच: || २ ||

ATITAH PAMTHANAM TAVA

CA MAHIMA VANMANASAYOH
ATADVYAVRITTYA YAM
CAKITAMABHIDHATTE SHRUTIRAPI
SA KASYA STOTAVYAH
KATIPIDHAGUNAH KASYA VISHAYAH
PADE TVARVACINE PATATI
NA MANAH KASYA NA VACAH

O, GREAT GOD, SO GREAT IS YOUR

MAJESTY THAT IT CANNOT BE REACHED
BY SPEECH AND MIND.EVEN THE VEDAS ALSO,
HAVING BECOME SURPRISED, CONFIRM YOUR
GREATNESS BY ONLY 'NETI', 'NETI' (NOT THIS,
NOT THIS), WHILE DESCRIBING YOU.

WHO CAN PRAISE THIS TYPE OF GREATNESS

OF YOURS? WITH HOW MANY QUALITIES IS
IT COMPOSED? WHOSE SUBJECT OF
DESCRIPTION CAN IT BE? AND YET EVEN
THEN WHOSE MIND AND SPEECH ARE NOT
ATTACHED TO YOUR THIS NEW SAGUNA FORM?

SHIVAMAHIMNA STOTRA (PUSHPADANTA). 2

|| ॐ नम: पशवनाय ||
|| अर शती पशवमपहम्नस्तलोत्रमत ||

मपहम्न: पिरपं तदे

पिरमपवदब्रुषलो यद्यसदृशती
स्तब्रुपतबर्वाहनादतीनमपपि
तदवसननास्त्वपय पगर: ||
अरनाऽवनाच्य: सवर्वा:
स्वमपतपिररणनामनावपध गब्रुणनत
ममनाप्यदेष स्तलोत्रदे हर
पनरपिवनाद: पिररकर: || १ ||

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
ATHA SHRI SHIVAMAHIMNASTOTRAM

MAHIMNAH PARAM TE PARAMAVIDUSHO

YADYASADRISHI STUTIRBRAHMADINAMAPI
TADAVASANNASTVAYI GIRAH
ATHA-VACYAH SARVAH
SVAMATIPARINAMAVADHI GUNAN
MAMAPYESHA STOTRE HARA
NIRAPAVADAH PARIKARAH
SHIVAMAHIMNA STOTRA (PUSHPADANTA)
O, LORD SHIVA, REMOVEDOR OF ALL
TYPES OF MISERIES, WHAT WONDER IS
THERE, IF THE PRAYER TO YOU, CHANTED
BY ONE IS IGNORANT ABOUT YOU GREATNESS,
IS WORTHLESS !

BECAUSE, EVEN THE UTTERANCE (SPEECH)

OF BRAHMA AND OTHERS GODS IS NOT
ABLE TO FATHOM YOURS MERITS
(IE, GREATNESS).

HENCE, IF PERSONS WITH VERY LIMITED

INTELLECT (AND I AM ONE OF THEM)
TRY TO OFFER YOU A PRAYER, THEIR
ATTEMPT DESERVE YOUR SPECIAL FAVOR.
IF IT IS SO, I SHOULD NOT BE A EXCEPTION.
HENCE, (THINKING LIKE THIS) I BEGIN THIS
PRAYER.

SHIVAMAHIMNA STOTRA (PUSHPADANTA). 1

ॐ नमष्टः पशवनाय
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
पशवनाय नम: ॐ
SHIVAYA NAMAH OM
THE UNIQUE AND SUPREME GOD IS LOVE
LORD SHIVA IS LOVE
LORD JESUS IS LOVE
THEREFORE
LORD SHIVA AND LORD JESUS,
THEY'RE THE UNIQUE AND SUPREME GOD !!!

|| हरना स्तब्रुपत: ||
HYMN TO LORD SHIVA

कपिशूर्वारगप्तौरपं करुणनावतनारपं
सपंसनारतऽसनारपं भिब्रुजगदेनदनाहनारमत |
सदना वसनतपं हृदयनारपवनददे भिवपं
भिवनानतीसपहतपं नमनापम ||

KARPURAGAURAM KARUNAVATARAM
SAMSAR-SARAM BHUJAGENDRA-HARAM |
SADA VASANTAM HRIDAYARAVINDE
BHAVAM BHAVANISAHITAM NAMAMI ||

"HE WHO IS FAIR LIKE CAMPHOR,

WHO IS EVER COMPASSIONATE,
BY WHOSE BEING
THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE EXISTS,
AROUND WHOSE NECK THERE IS
A GARLAND OF SERPENTS,
MAY HE ALWAYS LIVE IN MY HEART
ALONG WITH BHAVANI, HIS CONSORT.
I BOW DOWN TO HIM."

|| हरना स्तब्रुपत: ||
HYMN TO LORD SHIVA

ॐ त्रयपंबकपं यजनामहदे सब्रुगपंपधमत पिब्रुपषवधर्वानमत |

उवर्वारुकपमव बपंधननमवृत्यलोमब्रुर्वाकतीय मनामवृतनातत ||
OM TRAYAMBAKAM-YAJAMAHE
SUGAMDHIM-PUSHTI-VARDHANAM |
URVARUKAM-IVA BAMDHANAN
MRITYORM-UKSHIYA MAMRITAT ||

"I WORSHIP THE FRAGRANT THREE-EYED

ONE WHO NOURISHES ALL BEINGS;
GRANT ME LIBERATION IN
THE SAME MANNER AS A RIPE
CUCUMBER NATURALLY
SEVERS ITSELF FROM THE VINE."

न वणनार्वा न वणनार्वाशमनाचनारधमनार्वा:
न मदे धनारणनाध्यनानयलोगनादयदेऽपपि |
अननात्मनाशयनाहम्ममनाध्यनासहनाननातत
तददेककीऽवपशष: पशव: कदे वललोऽहमत || २ ||

NA VARNA NA VARNASHRAMACARADHARMA:
NA ME DHARANADHYANAYOGADAYE-PI |
ANATMASHRAYAHAMMAMADHYASAHANAT
TADEKI-VASHISHTAH SHIVA KEVALO-HAM || 2 ||

I AM NEITHER CASTES, NOR THE RULES OF

CASTE, SOCIETY AND CUSTOM, NOR FOR
ME ARE CONCENTRATION, MEDITATION,
YOGA AND OTHER PRACTICES; FOR ALL THIS
ILLUSION OF "I" AND "MINE" IS ROOTED IN
THE NOT-SELF AND IS THEREFORE DISPELLABLE
BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF.

I AM THEREFORE THE SECONDLESS,

UNCONTRADICTABLE, ATTRIBUTELESS
BLISS (LORD SHIVA). 2

THE TEN-VERSED HYMN 2 - ADI SHANKARACHARYA

न भिशूपमनर्वा तलोयपं न तदेजलो न वनाय:ब्रु

न स्वपं नदेपनदयपं वलो न तदेषनापं समशूह: |

उननैकनापनतकत्वनात्सब्रुषब्रुप्त्यदेजपसद:

तददेकलोऽवपशष: पशव: कदे वललोऽहमत || १ ||

NA BHUMIRNA TOYAM NA TEJO NA VAYUH

NA SVAM NENDRIYAM VO NA TESHAM SAMUHAH

UNAIKANTIKATVATSUSHUPTYEJASIDDHA:
TADEKO-VASHISHTAH ISHIVA KEVALO-HAM 1

"I AM NEITHER EARTH, NOR WATER, NOR FIRE,

NOR AIR, NOR ETHER, NOR SENSORY ORGAN,
NOR CONGLOMERATION OF ALL THESE ;
FOR, ALL THESE ARE TRANSIENT.

I AM HE THAT ALONE REMAINS IN DEEP SLEEP, THE SECONDLESS,

UNCONTRADICTABLE ATTRIBUTELESS BLISS (SHIVA)."

THE TEN-VERSED HYMN 1 - ADI SHANKARACHARYA

शती आपदननारनाय नमलोऽस्तब्रु तस्मनै

यदेनलोपिपदषना हठयलोगपवद्यना ||
पवभनाजतदे पलोनतरनाजयलोगमत
आरलोढब्रुपमचलोरपधरलोपहणतीवना || १ ||
SHRI ADINATHAYA NAMO-STU TASMAI
YENOPADISHTA HATHAYOGAVIDYA |
VIBHRAJATE PRONNATARAJAYOGAM
ARODHUMICHCHORADHIROHINIVA ||

"SALUTATION TO ADINATHA (SHIVA)

WHO EXPOUNDED THE KNOWLEDGE
OF HATHA YOGA, WHICH LIKE A
STAIRCASE LEADS THE ASPIRANT TO
THE HIGH PINNACLED RAJA YOGA."

THE HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA 1-1

दलो - तब्रुम्ह मनायना भिगवनान पशव

सकल जगत पपितब्रु मनातब्रु |
ननाइ चरन पसर मब्रुपन चलदे
पिब्रुपन पिब्रुपन हरशत गनातब्रु || ८१ ||

DO - TUMHA MAYA BHAGAVANA SHIVA

SAKALA JAGATA PITU MATU |
NAI CARANA SIRA MUNI CALE PUNI
PUNI HARASATA GATU || 81 ||

"YOU ARE MAYA, WHILE SHIVA IS GOD HIMSELF;

YOU ARE THE PARENTS OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE"

BOWING THEIR HEAD AT THE FEET OF PARVATI,

THEY DEPARTED. A THRILL RAN THROUGH THEIR
FRAME AGAIN AND AGAIN.

RAMAYANA - TULSIDAS. 81

पिपंचनाक्शरपमदपं पिब्रुण्यपं यष्टः पिठदेपच्च्छिवसपनधप्तौ |

पशवललोकमवनाप्नलोपत पशवदेन सह मलोदतदे ||

PAMCAKSHARAMIDAM PUNYAM YAH

PATHECCHIVASANNIDHAU |
SHIVALOKAMAVAPNOTI SHIVENA
SAHA MODATE ||
ANYONE WHO RECITES THIS SACRED
FIVE-SYLLABLED MANTRA,
(ॐ नमष्टः पशवनाय OM NAMAH SHIVAYA)
NEAR THE SHIVA (LINGA),
ATTAINS THE ABODE OF SHIVA
AND REJOICES THERE WITH SHIVA.

शती पशव पिञनाक्शर स्तलोत्रपं

SHRI SHIVA PANCHKSHARA STOTRAM

ADI SHANKARA-ACHARYA

दनाररद्र्यदब्रुह्ख-दहननाय नमष्टः इशवनाय

DARIDRYADUHKHA-DAHANAYA NAMAH SHIVAYA

"SALUTATIONS TO SHIVA WHO BURNS UP THE

GRIEF CAUSED BY POVERTY!’"

VASISHHTHA'S DARIDRYA DAHANA STOTRA

HERE POVERTY DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN

MATERIAL POVERTY; IT ALSO MEANS SPIRITUAL
POVERTY.

THIS PANCHA-AKSHARA (FIVE SYLLABLED) MANTRA

NAMAH SHIVAYA - ॐ नमष्टः पशवनाय - IS SOMETIMES
CALLED THE MULA MANTRA OR BASIC MANTRA
OF SHIVA. EACH OF THE FIVE SYLLABLES, NA, MA,
SHI, VA, AND YA, IS HELD TO BE SO SACRED THAT
IT REPRESENTS LORD SHIVA EVEN BY ITSELF.

पसद तपिलोधन जलोपगजन सब्रुर पकपंनर सब्रुपनबवृपंद |

बसपहपं तहपं सब्रुकवृतती सकल मदेवपहपं पशव सब्रुखकपंद || १०५ ||

SIDDHA TAPODHANA JOGIJANA SURA KIMNARA MUNIBRMDA,

BASAHI TAHA SUKRTI SAKALA SEVAHI SHIVA SUKHAKAMDA. 105
"HOSTS OF SIDDHAS (ADEPTS) ASCETICS AND YOGIS (MYSTICS), AS WELL AS GODS,
KINNARAS AND SAGES, ALL LUCKY SOULS, RESIDE THERE AND ADORE SHIVA, THE
ROOT OF ALL JOY."

RAMAYANA - TULSIDAS

TO UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPAL ESSENCE

OF BRAHMAN, THE UNCONDITIONED AND FREE
OF ALL CAUSE, THE SUBSTRATUM OF ALL, BE
MUST TRANSCEND ALL THE PROCESS OF DUALITY
AND MUTATION, EVEN IF BE WANT TO REACH
THE TRUE LIBERATION.

WE NOT CAN TO ENTER IN THE ABSOLUTE

WITHOUT BEFORE HAVE SYNTHESIZING OF
IT RELATIVE.

LORD SHIVA REPRESENTS THE ONE, THAT

CONTAINS IN ITSELF TO ALL BEINGS;
WELCOMING IN OUR HEART TO ALL BEINGS,
WE JOIN TO THE AWARENESS OF LORD SHIVA.

उमनासहनायपं पिरमदेश्वरपं पभिब्रुपं

पत्रललोचनपं नतीलकण्ठपं पशनानतमत |
ध्यनात्वना मब्रुपनगर्वाच्च्छिपत भिशूतयलोपनपं
समस्तसनापकपं तमस: पिरस्तनातत || ७ ||

UMASAHAYAM PARAMESHVARAM PRABHUM

TRILOCANAM NILAKANTHAM PRASHANTAM |
DHYATVA MUNIRGACCHATI BHUTAYONIM
SAMASTASAKSHIM TAMASAH PARASTAT || 7 ||

"UMA'S SPOUSE, (UMASAHAYA) THE SUPREME

LORD (PARAMESHWARA) WHO IS POWERFUL
(PRAHBHU); THE THREE-EYED AND BENEFICENT
NILAKANTHA; BY MEDITATION, A MUNI REACHES
HIM WHO IS THE ORIGIN OF ALL BEINGS,
THE WITNESS OF ALL AND PASSES BEYOND TAMAS." 7

ATHARVA VEDA - KAIVALYA UPANISHAD

स बहना स पशव: सदेनद:
मदेऽक: पिरम: स्वरनाटत |
स एव पवष्णब्रु: स पनाण: स
कनाललोऽपग: स चनदमना: || ८ ||

SA BRAHMA SA SHIVAH SENDRAH

ME-KSHRAH PARAMAH SVARAT |
SA EVA VISHNUH SA PRANAH SA
KALO'GNIH SA CANDRAMAH || 8 ||

"HE IS BRAHMA, HE IS SHIVA, HE IS INDRA,

HE IS IMPERISHABLE, SUPREME AND
SELF-LUMINOUS. HE IS HIMSELF VISHNU.
HE IS PRANA, HE IS KALAGNI, HE IS THE MOON."

ATHARVA VEDA - KAIVALYA UPANISHAD

स एव सवर्वा यदशूतपं यच
भिव्यपं सननातनमत |
जनात्वना तपं मवृत्यब्रुमत्यदेपत ननानय:
पिनरना पवमब्रुक्तयदे || ९ ||

SA EVA SARVA YADBHUTAM YACCA

BHAVYAM SANATANAM |
JNATVA TAM MRTYUMATYETI
NANYAH PANTHA VIMUKTAYE || 9 ||

HE IS ALL, - WHAT IS PAST AND WHAT

IS TO PASS, AND ETERNAL KNOWING HIM
ONE CROSSES DEATH. THERE IS NO OTHER
PATH TO LIBERATION.

ATHARVA VEDA - KAIVALYA UPANISHAD