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STANZA  --4

 

Sarvah sarvah sivah sthanur

bhutadirnidhiravyayah

sambhavo bhavano bharta

prabhavah  prabhurisvarah

 

Word  Meaning :

 

Sarvah                all

Sarvah                Siva

Sivah                   Lord of  auspiciousness

Sthtinuh              stable as rock

Bhuttidih             The origin of being

 Nidhih                 hidden treasurer and the contribution

of all

Avyayah              Unspendable

Sambhavah         The Lord of occurence

Bhtivanah          The goal of imagination   

 Bharta              The one who maintains all

Prabhavah         The Lord of emanation

Prabhuh              The Lord of all

Is~warah              The Lord of splendours

 MEANING :

 

Invoke Him as all and everything ; as Siva, the Lord of

auspiciousness; stable as a rock, the origin of all beings and as the

unspendable hidden treasure and contribution of all He is the Lord of occurance,

the source and the goal of imagination,

the one who maintains all. He is the Lord of emanation and the Lord of all and

everything as well as the Lord of splendours.

Explanation :

        1. All means that the Lord pervades all. Here all includes

creation and beyond creation.

        2. Sarva means the Lord of the dissolution or merging of

the creation.                       ·

 

3. Sivah means the Lord who is the embodiment of auspiciousness. Rea1ise

gradually that whatever occurs contributes to the ultimate well-being.

4 Just as the rock is stablest of all, that is on the physical plane, the Lord

is the stablest of all the creation. He forms the very content that stands

eternally. On His surface, everything floa~. ­

          5. The origin of beings is the monad which descends as

Jeeva or permanent atom (refer Secret. Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky).

 

6 & 7 The unspendable hidden treasure means the source of even Moo/a Prakriti,

the primordial substance as well as divine thought. Both of them are borrowed by

the devas who come from them both. Again everyone leaves his own work as his own

contribution that returns to the same treasure.

 

8. Occurrence is the coming across of the individual with the remaining part of

the creation which forms his background.

This Coming across may be physical, vital, sensory, mental or spiritual. It is

known as incident.

9. The source and goal of imagination is the reaction of mind towards itself and

its recollection of memories. All' this form part of the Lord.

 

10. Everyone receives his maintenance from the parents, employers, friends and

other individuals. All these beings live as characters in the drama of the

universe, the story of which occurs on the background who is the Lord. Hence,

the maintenance is indirectly the Lord Himsel£

11. Everyone awakens from his sleep everyday but he first gets his awakening as

an individual from the Lord Himsel£ This is the first differentiation of his

individual consciousness which we call emanation.

 

12. Prabhuh means the Lord of all the creation which is the kingdom of the Lord.

Here the administrative ability that is immanent in the creation is referred to.

 

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13. Splendours are the powers of nature which render the manifestation of the

creative intelligences

 

possible. In the individual, they live as the powers which maintain body, mind,

senses, life and the

 

psychological faculties beyond which stand the super-human splendours that may

sometimes flow out

 

 through Him.

 

 

 

COURTESY   -  Master   E.K

 

 

WISH YOU A HAPPY  AND PROPEROUS NEW YEAR

 

Regards

 

Bharathi,A