शुद्धयोगेन संयुक्तो जीवन्मुक्तो न संशयः । सदा जपन्सदाध्यायञ्छिवं प्रणवरूपिणम् २४ ।
A person who has thus mastered Śuddhayoga becomes certainly a liberated living soul. A Mahāyogin who performs Japas and meditations perpetually of Śiva in the form of Praṇava and maintains mystic trance, certainly becomes Śiva Himself.