Illustration for Shiva Manasa Puja Stotram on warm parchment

Complete · Inner puja · ~4 min · ~4 min chant

Shiva Manasa Puja Stotram

Śivamānasapūjāstotram

Five verses of mental worship in which the devotee offers imagined seat, bath, food, and finally the Self to Shiva.

All verses

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About this stotra

Shiva Manasa Puja is among Shankaracharya's most intimate hymns. In five verses the devotee mentally offers a jeweled seat, bath, garments, food, fanfare, and prostrations - then discovers that Self, mind, body, and every action are already Shiva's worship.