Kṛṣṇa Yajurvedīya Śrī Rudram

Om, salutations to Shiva — the most fundamental Shaiva mantra, offering reverence to the auspicious, all-pervading consciousness that Shiva embodies.

Salutations to the great lord who wears the king of serpents as a garland, who bears three eyes, whose limbs are smeared with sacred ash — who is eternal, pure, and robed in the directions themselves. To him, present in the syllable 'Na', I bow.

I bow to that eternal Shiva-linga, worshipped by Brahma, Vishnu, and the gods; radiant with a stainless splendor; and destroyer of the sorrows born of worldly existence.

Salutations to your fury, O Rudra, and salutations to your arrow. Salutations be to your bow, and salutations to your two arms.