The intelligent, desiring to destroy piles of ignorance, worship Śiva, who has spotless character and who has no equal. But though he is the goal of the saints, he acts like a ghost. Unintelligence people will say that he is constantly engaged in sexual relationships with naked women and smears his body with ashes from the crematorium. However, hear the truth from me. The intelligent respect his character which is spotless. They become liberated from the material world by worshiping him. He is the goal of the elevated souls. He has no equal since he is one with the lord. Or he is completely renounced, seeing everything equally (nirasta–sāmyātiśayaḥ).