Satarudriya - 10

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91. Sesa worships a Linga made of gorocana. The name is remembered as Pasupati.

(The Lord of Pasus)

 

92. Vasuki worship Visalinga (Linga made of Poison) and the name is Sankara

(Giver of Happiness)

 

93. Taksaka worships Kalakutakhya Linga (Linga of the poison name Kalakuta) and

the name is Bahurupa (Multi Formed)

 

94. Karkotaka worships a Linga made of the poison Halahala and the name is

Ekaksa (One Eyed)

 

95. Padma worships a Linga made of the poison named Srngi and the name is

Dhurjati (With heavy matted hair)

 

96. Putra worships Linga of the form of Pitr (father). The name is Visvarupa (of

the form of the Universe)

 

97. Goddess Siva worships a Linga made of Parada (mercury) and the name is

Tryambaka (Three Eyed God)

 

98. Matsya (fish)and others worship Sastralinga (Linga in the form of Sacred

Literature) and the name is Vrsakapi.

 

"of what avail is much talk in this vein? Whatever is in the world possessing

magnificience and splendour has been made so by means of the holy rite of

propitiaing Siva.

 

If ash can turn out to be a tree by being drenched in water, one devoid of

devotion to Siva can said to be successful (in his efforts).

 

If you have an inclination towards the attainment of the Purusarthas - aims of

human life, viz., virtue, wealth, love and liberation, Hara should be

propitiated. He is considered to be the bestower of all the three worlds.

 

If a person reads this Satarudriya every morning, Lord Siva will be pleased with

him and will grant him all the boons.

 

There is nothing more meritorious than this and yielding greater benefit than

this. It is the secret of (all) the Vedas. This has been mentioned to me by the

Sun God (The sage reciting these verses was Yajnavalkya in his previous birth

and the Sun God was the preceptor of Yajnavalkya as he gave him the Sukla Yajur

Veda)

 

When Satarudriya is repeated, all the sins are destroyed - the sin that has been

committed through words and the sin that has been perpetrated mentally.

 

If he repeatedly reads Satarudriya, he who is distressed with sickness becomes

liberated from ailment, he who is bound becomes liberated and he who is under

some fear becomes liberated from fear.

 

If a person recites these hundred names and (pours) hundred potfuls (of water on

the Linga) and puts hundred flowers on it and bows hundred times to Siva, he is

liberated from all sins.

 

These hundred Lingas (mentioned above), the hundred devotees and the hundred

names (of Rudra) all these are destructive of all defects.

 

Particularly, he who recites (verses of) (at least) five Lingas of these

(hundred Lingas) is liberated from the faults arising from the objects of the

five sense organs."

 

(The last few statements are the phala sruti verses of the satarudriya)

 

Regards

 

 

Ranganath