"Shiva is Atman (soul)"

"Shiva is Atman (soul) ~ A pathologist diagnoses correctly,
and cures illness through medicines.
Similarly, Shiva is called the physician of the world, by those who know the nature of the principles.
Shiva is the great Atman, because he is the Atman of all,
he is forever endowed with the great qualities, there is no greater Atman than him." ~~ Shiva Maha Purana, Kailasa samhita.

Shiva Maha Purana is one of eighteen Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism. It primarily centers around Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods. The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve Samhitas (books), however the Purana adds that it was abridged by sage Vyasa before being taught to Romaharshana. The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, relationship between gods, ethics, Yoga, Tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE. The oldest surviving chapters of the Shiva Purana have significant Advaita Vedanta philosophy, which is mixed in with theistic elements of bhakti.

In the 19th- and 20th-century, the Vayu Purana was sometimes titled as Shiva Purana, and sometimes proposed as a part of the complete Shiva Purana. With the discovery of more manuscripts, modern scholarship considers the two text as different, with Vayu Purana as the more older text composed sometime before 2nd-century CE. Some scholars list it as a Mahapurana, while some state it is an Upapurana.

According to a passage found in the first chapters of Vidyesvara Samhita and Vayaviya Samhita of these recensions the original Shiva Purana comprised twelve Samhitas, which included five lost Samhitas: Vainayaka Saṁhita , Matr Samhita, Rudraikadaaa Samhita, Sahasrakotirudra Samhita and Dharma Samhita. The number of verses in these sections were as follows ;

Vidyeshvara Samhita - 10,000
Rudra Samhita - 8,000
Vainayaka Samhita - 8,000
Uma Samhita - 8,000
Matri Samhita - 8,000
Rudraikadasha Samhita - 13,000
Kailasa Samhita - 6,000
Shatarudra Samhita - 3,000
Sahasrakotirudra Samhita - 11,000
Kotirudra Samhita - 9,000
Vayaviya Samhita - 4,000
Dharma Samhita - 12,000
Several other Samhitas are also ascribed to the Shiva Purana. These are the Isana Samhita, the Isvara Samhita, the Surya Samhita, the Tirthakṣetramahatmya Samhita and the Manavi Samhita.!! ✨📓🐍👁🔱💀🌙🐚🌿🕉🖊📿🌷✨

Hari Om Tat Sat ~ Om Namah Shivaya ~ Jai Bholenath! 🙏🙏
Shubh Ratri ~ Good Night Lovely Souls 🙏✨❤️🙏