Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates ‘The fruit of this knowledge’ of the study on the Shaiva Upanishads in English, comparing them with other texts dealing with the Shiva cult (besides the Agamas and Puranas). The Upaniṣads are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.
29. The fruit of this knowledge
[...] Kālagnirudra Upaniṣad verse 10
Kālāgnirudra gives the fruit of the Knowledge of Bhasma and dhāraṇa. According to him he who knows this, whether he be a Brahman-student, a house holder, a forest-resident or an ascetic, he is thereby purified of all the major sins and minor sins. Thereby all the gods are meditated upon by him, he is known by all the gods, becomes one who has bathed in all the holy bathing places, one who has all the time muttered the Rudra prayer. And after enjoying all the pleasures he enters, giving up the body, into union with Śiva and does not return–and does not return. Thus spoke the exalted Kālāgnirudra. One who recites it here, he also attains to a similar state. Om Satyam.–Thus reads the Upaniṣad.