Nandin said: Those devotees of Mahādeva who are interested in applying ashes; who burn their sins through ashes; who are engaged in meditation and carry, out what has been laid down in the scriptures; who have perfect control over the senseorgans; who have sublimated their sexuality; who worship the great lord with perfect verbal, mental and physical control; reach Rudra’s world and do not return therefrom. Hence this secret, sacred and divine rite of the deity of manifest Liṅga.