108 ADORATIONS OF SHIVA

OM

Hermeticusnath
 
 

SHIVA

Primal Bliss.

Shiva- a Blessing
Bliss, Pure
Orgasmic & Infinite Moment
Beyond time
Beyond All
I AM THAT
Perfection
Pure awareness
Awakening!

Shiva Hum!
 

GUNAGRAHIN

Acceptor of the Gunas.

Alchemist of the Gunas
Brilliant flash
As three unite
Body, Mind, Spirit
Tamas, Sattvas, Rajas
Distilled
Into Pure Peace
Unity and
Beyond

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHAMRITUAJAYA

Great conqueror of Death

Beyond Life & Death
The Endless One abides
Still, Transcendent
Living Corpse
Triumphant
Asleep, Dead; No Difference
Death’s embrace
Is Joy!

Shiva Hum!
 

SARVATAPANA

Fire-blaster of All
Pow! Bam! K-Bang!
Fire, roar
Destruction explodes
In all places are sparks
Of devastation!

Shiva Hum!
 

BHUTAPALA

Patron of Ghosts.
Shadow lord of a million lost voices
I am a ghost
We are all ghosts
Protect us and love us
We who drift in the ghost world
Help us to awaken

Shiva Hum!
 

NRITYAPRIYA

All  Dancing
Shiva dance, Shiva swirl
Ferns unfolding, typhoons wandering
Volcanoes, tidal waves, earthquaking dance
Lila dance of LifeDeathLove
Binds all unto your
Dance
 May we dance with joy
Conscious of All

Shiva Hum!
 

DURJAYA

Unconquerable One.
Before I was ever born
After my last incarnation- you are there
Om
A diamond-light  Guide
To beyond All;
Time never was

Shiva Hum!
 

PRANAVA

Totality of ….
Om
Vibration of All
Electron-spin hummmmm
Beyond Quarks and Mesons
Bell-ring of creation, existence
And destruction

Shiva Hum!
 

DHYANADHARA

Focus of meditating.
To not Think-Just BE
We think first of ONE thing
Uniting
ALL things
Mahamaya
Into- SHIVA
Who is beyond ONE
So none indeed!
OM

Shiva Hum!
 

 NATARAJA

King of the Dance.
Dancing Chaos into Order
Order into Chaos
Destruction & Creation meet and dance
A flaming circle about you
Nataraj!
Lord of cycles & infinite Transmutations
Bless all points
All angles
All Changes
For all is Change

Shiva Hum!
 

SARVAVASA

Abode of all.
In the Center is Everything
And in Everything resides the Center.
See, point; Flame of pure being
Atman
Centerpoint within

Shiva Hum!
 

DEVA DEVA

Lord of Gods
Supreme essence of the supreme essence
Beyond, beyond, beyond
Formless, conceptionless
No words can hold
That which is the origin of all Origins

Shiva Hum!
 

KUNDALIN

You who wear the earrings of OM
Golden earrings remind us
To hear the soundless sound, chant the silent chant
Open our ears and mind to the HUM of All
One adorned with the weights of awareness
Open us to the infinite

Shiva Hum!
 

DHANADEEPA

Lord of wealth
Richness in seeing and being
Priceless moment
Held like a firefly
Beyond loss
The Awake are wealthy
Riches of Joy received from you

Shiva Hum!
 

HARA

Purifier of all
Less ‘I’, more OM
Filled with light, love and laughter
Letting-go Lord, flow
Amidst-through me
Setting me free
Clean and open as a newborn child

Shiva Hum!
 

SHRUTIPRAKASHA

The Knowledge is Bliss
Open, gifted, tumescent
Gnosis-know-illuminated
We fly into the blue open sky
On the wings of wisdom

Shiva Hum!
 

PRIYABHAKTA

One Loved by All
All who seek, find you
All who go forth
Fall into your hands
All in darkness find your light
In every city, country, land about the world
There you sit- loved by all

Shiva Hum!
 

PRIYADARSHANA

The vision of love
Most beautiful lord
Clothed in holy elephant skin
Well built, handsome, alluring
Emanation instinct, attraction of the divine
Fill our world with beauty

Shiva Hum!
 

SARVACHARYA

All-begetter
From your loins
Come Gods, humans, animals, demons and spirits
Mountains, seas, valleys
Fields and rivers
Limitless source of fertility
Embodiment of evolutionary drives and power
Flow through us in joy!

Shiva Hum!
 

SARVA

All of All
All things and beings
Seen and unseen
Are aware by your grace
All are One
In full consciousness
One is None- Void
The essence of All

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHANIDHI

Source of All-
Things
Ideas
Feelings
Actions…
Walls of great becoming
Fount of All essence
Let the source of All be ever present

Shiva Hum!
 

SHRUTIPRAKASHA

Gnosis of Gnosis
Knowledge beyond
Books, words, signs
Impenetrable and mysterious
Yet plain and clear
May all words shine with your light

Shiva Hum!
 

GANESHWARA

Lord of archetypes
All gods and spirits of light
Ring and adore you
Linchpin of Heaven
Ling of flame
Ruler of all who play
in the infinite cosmos of spirit
We dance with you!
O galaxy of stars

Shiva Hum!
 

SURESHA

Beginning of The End
Cause and causer
Center and circle of void
All changing, yet eternal
Before any manifestation
There you are
Bless us with the eternal becoming

Shiva Hum!
 

KANTHA

Open third eye
Light
Open Heart
Light
Open Lingum-Yoni
Light
Pouring, bursting, all pervading
Brilliant light
OM
 

SHRIVATSALA

O ling embraced by yoni!
Jewel in the lotus of the World
Bindu in the Yantra of cosmos
Reflection of Goddess
within
All existence
As being, awareness- ONE
And so None!

Shiva Hum!
 

KAPARDIN

Horned one, wild one
Hairy one, feral one
Rivers of bliss flow from your crown
Over the matted forest of your hair
Descending to bless us!

Shiva Hum!
 

VACHASPATI

Silence
Then
A vibration
Rippling out- causing
Infinite variety of vibrations
The word made flesh
Creation/Restriction/ What IS
OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHA DEVA

Self made Self
Star in all
Guarding spirit
Lord of lords
You ARE
And so all IS

Shiva Hum!
 

SANATANA

All words
Hopeless
All thoughts
Meaningless
All images
Wrong and limiting
In pure transparency
Ah!

Shiva Hum!
 

DHANADEEPA

May we receive what we need
For eternal pleasure and enjoyment
To prosper others
And so eminate prosperity
Source of Wealth!
The world is your treasure house

Shiva Hum!
 

SHANKARA

Bom Shankar!
Bring joy! Bring Happiness!
Become the Play of All
Music! Laughter! Dancing! Feasting!
Big fun! Let’s go!

Shiva Hum!
 

  MAHADHYUTI

Fire of the infinite
Burning all to ashes
Flying through the stars
Planets
All living things
All arms and legs
Dancing electrons
Light incarnate
Great splendor- shine upon us!

Shiva Hum!
 

SARVAYONI

Maha Yoni
Crevice of all creation
Source of all
Veil of the Great Mother
In your worldless origin
All existence begins

Shiva Hum!
 

VISHOKA

O stillness in darkness
Release of the center
Of the wheel of suffering
Sorrow, pain, regret
Dissolve at your touch
O letting-go-one
May we be free of sorrow

Shiva Hum!
 

CHANDRAMOWLI

Moon-horned one
Shining in the starry night
Loved by wolves and wild ones
As you wax, moon lord
So do we dream time

Shiva Hum!
 

UNNATAKIRTI

All know you
One of infinite names
For you are all things
All praise you
With an infinite variety of prayers and chants
All seek you
In countless ways
And so you reside
In all who open their Eyes
And awake!

Shiva Hum!
 

HARA

Hara Hara Deva!
Hara Hara Deva!
Hara Hara Deva!
Forgive me my ignorance
Meanness, selfishness, devotion to ego!
Hara Hara Deva!
Release me from illusion. OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

SHRIKANTTHA

Take in the evils of the world
O blue-throated one
Transmute them into bliss and nectar
The darkness of your throat
Is the infinite azure
Of the transformed sky

Shiva Hum!
 

VAMADEVA

Five faces of beauty
Smiling image of the divine
A mirror? Self as art?
The loveliness of the million things
Hides your spark!
May we see the beauty hiding everywhere
Revealed

Shiva Hum!
 

PUSHKARA

You feed
All who hunger
You give nourishment
To every soul who asks
Infinite love and compassion
Which underlies the universe
We are all infants
Feeding upon your stars

Shiva Hum!
 

SURAGANA

All the gods
Dance your dance
All the elementals, gurus, and demons
Dance your dance
All humans, living and dead
Are dancing your dance
As gods may we awaken
As you lead us in the lila of joy

Shiva Hum!
 

JARADHISHAMANA

May we struggle
With dignity and kindness
As we suffer
May we let it pass through us
Into your compassionate hands
Lord of kindness and healing
Relieve us of our ills
That we may keep to the center

Shiva Hum!
 

JAGADISH

The universe abides
Expanding in infinite complexity
Contracting in finite simplicity
All is ever as it was
Thus YOU are

Shiva Hum!
 

SADASHIVA

You are past
Reaching back forever
You are the future
Flinging forward forever
You are the eternal present
Existing in multiplicity unity
Now, which is forever
You are time and beyond time
Eternal- forever

Shiva Hum!
 

JARADISHAMANA

Heal me
You who are beyond afflictions
Help me become clear
You who are beyond sight
Relieve me of pain and attachment
You who are loving
May we together transcend
Life & Death

Shiva Hum!
 

KAPALIN

O necklace of skulls
Chain of death and dissolution
Wrapped up in a helix
Of manifestation and growth
Remind us of the chain
Of dying moments
The passing away of all
But what is eternal

Shiva Hum!
 

VISHVESHA

You create
Destroy
Rebirth and maintain
And also you ARE these
Many faces, one being
All joy

Shiva Hum!
 

SUPRITA

One who grants satisfaction
Help us find the way of Will
Our orbit, path and mission
As a flower opening
Grant us joy and pleasures
As we honor you in the Way

Shiva Hum!
 

NAGABHUSHANA

Lord of serpents
Fill us with wonder
Let Kundulini illuminate
All the Centers
Head, heart, body
Help us become adept
Renew the hidden forces
That we may attain

Shiva Hum!
 

SHOOLIN

You who are the Trident
And thrust of trident
Piercing the Three Worlds
Three centers of being
Three levels of consciousness
With one unified core of Will
OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

ANANTADRISHTI

One who sees all
Beyond energy
Beyond matter
Beyond time
Through every fiber of our being
May we attain this sight
Your infinite piercing sight
And so see beyond

Shiva Hum!
 

UMPATI

Surrounded by the Goddess
You are the Center
Source of all
All is given to you
As a single scarlet flower
Upon the Ling
The great Shakti
Whose great love you are

Shiva Hum!
 

KHATVANGIN

Spear of great destiny
Comet of balencing
Thrust into the swirling center
Of the living universe
Piercing the veil
You also pierce the 3rd eye
And we awaken

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHASHAKTI

Great Goddess
Great power
Great energy
Source of all
Vibration
Life
Flow of eternal back-forth-OM!
Bless us
As SHIVA!

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHESHA

Prime source of will
True will personified
Center and ling
Of the Way
Made flesh axis about which
Circles the cosmos
Here-now and never-when

Shiva Hum!
 

VEERABHADRA

Shadow lord of ghosts
Skull-faced death-lover
Ha ha ha!
Your bones rattle and hiss
But all fear is gone
In your dance
And embrace

Shiva Hum!
 

VISHALAKAH

Eyes open open open
Shiva shock-aha!
Awareness is all, all, all
Keep me aware
O wide-eyed one!

Shiva Hum!
 

DURJANEEYA

What is THOUGHT known is not really known
Behind the obvious is the real
This is you O Shiva
To utter or to think
Is to miss
Your Void

Shiva Hum!
 

ANAGHA

Only one thing
Is perfect
Is faultless
Is utterly flawless
Your single point
Of pure existence
OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

PUSHPALOCHANA

Lotus-Eyed One
Your Third Eye
A 1000 Petaled lotus
Of immeasurable beauty
Let us flower!

Shiva Hum!
 

RAVILOCHANA

O sun at midday
3rd eye open cosmic flame
Left eye moon
Right eye sun
Entire being
Bright as the most powerful star
In your ray
We are one

Shiva Hum!
 

JAGADISH

Matter and antimatter
Sentient omnipresence
All patterns of the universe
Its very essence
Converge through you
O nexus-Shiva

Shiva Hum!
 

SHAMBHU

Give me, O Shiva
Grant me, O Shiva
Honor me O Shiva
With what I need
What I desire
What I love
And so, in pleasure and delight
and well-being
I find you

Shiva Hum!
 

SHRIVATSALA

The Great Goddess loves you
O Shiva
Surges through you
O Shiva
Plays with the universe via you
O Shiva
And through you we adore the Goddess
You are each other’s mirror
In this mirror I see self

Shiva Hum!
 

JATIN

Primal one
Primate one
Swinging locks
Of power and letting-go
Receive the eternal waters of awareness
In your infinite hair
Then spray us
In laughter!

Shiva Hum!
 

KAILASHADHIPATI

Lord of the holy mountain
God of the peak
Center pinnacle of the Earth
Our life is circumnambulation
About the great mountain of existence
Of your being

Shiva Hum!
 

BHUDEVA

Lord of the earth
Green, growing, material
Infusing all physicality
With love, acceptance, blessing
Embracing all things
In the warm hug of being

Shiva Hum!
 

BHOOTESHWARA

God of cast-offs, garbage, the useless
Of hells and tunnels
Goblins and ghouls
Lord of Dark things and nightmares
Bless us with the jolt of wake up
Bless us with undying light

Shiva Hum!
 

CHANDRAPIDA

Silver skinned moon-man
Crowned with the ever-changing crescent
Dark to light to dark to light
Showing us that
In ever changing
Is the only constant

Shiva Hum!
 

DAYAKARA

Om Shiva
Manifest in compassion
For all others; people, animals
Ghosts and all living and non-living beings
Open heart, real knowing
So may we be

Shiva Hum!
 

VARADA

Silent ally
Listening to true will
And granting all true wishes
Uttered unconsciously-
Give gifts of joy
And prosperity O Shiva!

Shiva Hum!
 

VEDAKARTA

You are the Word
From which all springs
The boy, the chant, the utterance
Of life and death and knowing
The knowledge of All
OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

VRISHAVAHANA

Bull-god- OM!
Minotaur of power and fertility
Fill us with lust
For life, love and laughter
Through the lens of divine will

Shiva Hum!
 

VYALIN

Lord of serpents
Lord of snakes
Kundalini lord
Of shaking earth
And sliding spirit
Rise and bless-OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

AJA

No flesh, no mind
No spirit, no energy
No power, No existence
No thing
Ever was/is/will be OM

Shiva Hum!
 

AKSHAYAGUNA

This and this and this
Everything I see, hear, taste, touch, smell
You are, you are, you are
Everything
And so am I All

Shiva Hum!
 

AUGADH

Dionysic Shiva
Dancing, Drinking
Carrying on with joy and mirth
Let us sing and party & play
Every night and every day

Shiva Hum!
 

ARYAYAPRABHU

What was in the beginning
Is in the end
Unchanged
A moment, time
Outside of mortality
Infinite and eternal

Shiva Hum!
 

VISHWADIPTI

Pure light
All penetrating
All pervading
Illuminating every cell
Of one’s being
Hum of pure light

Shiva Hum!
 

VISHWAMBHARESHWARA

Lord of earth
Protect us
Shelter us
Manifest through us
The real
Authentic
True

Shiva Hum!
 

TRILOCHANA

Lord of eternal 3
3 eyes green energy
3 centers igniting
3 gunas combining
3 faced unity- lord of all you SEE

Shiva Hum!
 

TRIPURARI

Demon killer
Smash the three worlds!
Destroy the shadow
King of darkness
Slay Mara
And so stop time
Thus we awake!

Shiva Hum!
 

DHYUTIDHARA

Light Full Of Brilliance
Mirror Full Of Stars
Moon Full Of Wonder Glow
Sun Full Of Shimmering
Beyond all
Infinite brilliance
Fill us

Shiva Hum!
 

GIRIJAPATI

Lord of the Lady
Center of the Circle
Jewel in the Lotus
Pillar in the lake
Heart in the Wheel
Loved & Loving

Shiva Hum!
 

NILAKANTHA

Nilakantha wild God
Hairy & blue throated
Receive the river Ganges
Hare Hare Ganga!
Let the flow of time
Stop
In your matted hair
You transmute poison to bliss
Ah!

Shiva Hum!
 

KAMALAKSHANA

O lotus eyed God
Chalice of three gunas
Embodied in swirling
Tri-part brilliance
From your eyes
Comes all perception
All reality as
Dancing
Colors

Shiva Hum!
 

KUNDALIN

Kundalin
God of the great earrings!
Of bone and silver and gold
Open-eared and attentive
Dionysus-Panthera
God of wild revels
And ecstasy
Leap UP!

Shiva Hum!
 

LALATAKSHA

3rd eye Open!
ALL is VOID!
3rd eye Open
Silence, destruction, dissolution
3rd eye Open
awake, aware
clear
svaha.

Shiva Hum!
 

LINGADHYAKSHA

Lord of Lingas!
Phallus God arisen
Great Pillar of lust love
And explosive orgasm-bliss
Om!

Shiva Hum!
 

LINGARAJA

King Ling
Crown of Rut
Thrust and explode
In lightLoveLaughter

Shiva Hum!
 

LOKAKRITA

Create a world, world, world
Triune, tripartite, triangle
Trishul
One and one and one
United
Beyond beyond beyond

Shiva Hum!
 

LOKANKARA

Creation creating itself
Creator of all the world
Eternal self-creating
All creating self
Infinite cycle
Unending

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHABUDDHI

Great mind
Great thought
Great awareness
Encompassing and encircling
All we can ever sense, know, perceive
Ah! Silence.

Shiva Hum!
 

MAHA MAYA

Great illusion called
The world
Cruel beast
Lovely lotus
Pain suffering joy bliss
Existence as a whole
Being you
We are free

Shiva Hum!
 

NITYASUNDARA

Always and ever beautiful
Stillness a mirror
Always bright
And full of wonder
Compassion, peace
Om

Shiva Hum!
 

OMKARA

Big bang bliss of OM
Vibration of all
And beyond all
And the origin of beyond
And that which precedes the origin
OM!

Shiva Hum!
 

PARAMAYA

Primal Artist of illusions
Dancing DNA sculpting
The ever-changing world
Urge, instruct, infuse
The force of evolution

Shiva Hum!
 

PARAMJYOTI

Splendorous one!
Unveiled galaxy
Of a million burning stars
Aha and aha
Shimmering, shining, sparkling
Dazzle!

Shiva Hum!
 

PASHUPATI

Lord of Beasts
Gentle horned one
Fawn eyes, bull head
Muscular and peaceful
Like a gentle valley
Protect us wild one
Share
The heart of the beast

Shiva Hum!
 

PINAKIN

Archer of love
Kundulini warrior
Let the arrow
The shooting star
The fiery serpent
Fly!

Shiva Hum!
 

RUDRA

Terrible howler
Nameless one
Great bellowing roaring
Howl of the beast
Transform panic to pleasure
And finally
To peace

Shiva Hum!
 

SADACHARA

Noble one of True Will
Dharma knight
Charioteer questing for Shakti
Perfect, focused
Clear, and utterly still
Gather all to one
Point

Shiva Hum!
 

SHUDDHARIGRAHA

Pure body of light
Washed clean
By waves of bliss
Unpolluted by time, energy, matter
Free of all

Shiva Hum!
 

SKANDAGURU

Father of Skanda
Eternal youth
Seed sprouted
Egg hatched
Calf born
To dawn light
Progenitor
Of the NEW

Shiva Hum!
 

SUKHADA

Giver of joy
We open our arms
Aware, happy expectant
And embrace sunshine and blue sky
Like a lotus

Shiva Hum!
 

TEJASTEJAS

Amazing of amazing
Perfection of the perfect
The unique moment
What are you
Not?

Shiva Hum!
 

TRISHOOLIN

Trident of eternity
Standing amidst flames
In the cremation ground
Sun.moon.fire.
All gone
All gone
Ashes

Shiva Hum!
 

VAJRAHASTA

Thrower of lightening!
Lord of electric
Bliss!
Shock!
Thunder!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Wake UP!

Shiva Hum!
 

YOGARAJ

Great teacher of union
All things come together
Into one
One comes together
Into
None
Union-bliss
2=0

Shiva Hum!
 

…
 

shruti!
Shruti!
Empty words
Spider webs
Paw prints
Traces
Of what has come
&
gone…
 
 
 

-Hermeticus Nath 2004