Anadi Kalpeswara Sivalingam

After revealing the glory of Damarukeshwara, Maharudra described to Devi Parvati the fifth sacred Shiva Linga of Mahakalavana: Anadi Kalpeswara Mahadeva.

The word Anadi means beginningless. Maharudra explains that this Linga manifested before the elements themselves. At that time there was no fire, no sun, no earth, no directions and no sky.

There was no wind, no water, no moon, no planets, no devas, no asuras, no gandharvas, no pishachas and no rakshasas. Before all visible and invisible worlds, the divine Linga had already appeared.

From this Linga arose the moving and unmoving universe: worlds, beings, devas, rishis, ancestors, manvantaras, lineages, oceans, mountains, rivers and forests. In the time of dissolution, all returns into that same supreme Linga.

Maharudra reveals that the fourteen worlds, the movements of the sun and moon, the planets, the stars and even the unseen subtle realms are sustained through this beginningless principle of Shiva.

Therefore, Anadi Kalpeswara is not merely a sacred form. It is a sign of the Supreme Reality itself: subtle, eternal, imperishable, beyond decay, beyond measure and beyond all causes.