In Service of Lord Shiva
शिव पञ्चाक्षर स्तोत्रम् “Namaḥ Śivāya” — Salutation to Śiva, the Auspicious One There is a prayer so ancient, so condensed, so luminous that the great Ādi Śaṅkarācārya — the philosopher who unified the four corners of India with his feet and the entire cosmos with his pen — chose to compose an entire stotram around
The Shri Samba Sadashiva Ashtakam (श्रीसाम्बसदाशिवाष्टकम्) belongs to the second kind. Composed as an entirely original Sanskrit hymn in the classical Anushtubh metre — the same sacred metre used in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and countless ancient hymns — this ashtakam is a devotee’s complete offering to the divine couple: Lord Shiva (Sadashiva) and Goddess Parvati (Gauri).
Shiv Paramatma Ashtkam is a verse-by-verse journey through eight shlokas on Shiva, the Supreme Soul of all creation