YatayaH ShuddhasattvaaH..

YatayaH ShuddhasattvaaH..

वेदांत विज्ञान सुनिश्चितार्थाः संन्यास योगाः यतयः शुद्धसत्त्वाः

Every Sage or Sannyasin is ultimately Lord Shankara in human shape..

Maybe the greatest of the ascetics Shankaraachaarya the Acharyaswamikal, got that name just because of that

When a sage attains Videha Mukthi or liberation from the physical body, His mortal remains are confined to mother earth by burial, but the hallowed piece of earth is consecrated by a ShivaLingam..

The memories of the Sage are worshipped as Shankara

And Sri Rudram is chanted in praised of Shankara.

Of course, it has to be remembered

that

Shankara means the eternal Lord who creates, controls and even destroys the universe...

call Him Narayana, Durga or by any other names.

एकं सद्विप्राः बहुधा वदन्ति

Ekam sadvipraa bahudhaa vadanti

The one thing which the learned people call in many ways.

Parabrahma or God has really no name.. He is present everywhere, and so every name we can think of is His name.

Still for identification, we choose some quality of His (or Hers) and call it Shiva, Rudra, Vishnu, Narayana, Durga, Ambika or Kaali..

नमोस्तु अनन्ताय सहस्र मूर्तये

सहस्र पादार्चि शिरोरुबाहवे

सहस्रनाम्ने पुरुषाय शाश्वते

सहस्र कोटीयुगधारिणे नमः.

Namstu ananthaaya sahasramoorthaye

sahasrapaadaarchi shirorubaahave

sahasranaamne purushaaya shaasvate

sahasrkotee yugadhaarine namaH..

Pranams to that being who has no destruction, who manifests in thousand shapes

Who has thousand feet, legs, heads, thighs, and hands all in thousands

Who has thousand name, who is the eternal primordial Purusha

Who carries in Himself time being reckoned in thousands of crores of units..

We have to understand this thousand as infinity..

Human mind struggles when it has to cope up with very huge and imposing things..

Then the mind finds satisfcation or repose by just giving that infinity some finite number, large enough like thousand..

NamaH Shivaaya..