Sivaanandalahari - 23

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karomi tvatpUjAM sapadi sukhado me Bava viBo

vidhitvaM viShNutvaM diSasi khalu tasyA: phalamiti |

punaS^cha tvAM draShTuM divi Buvi vahan pakShimRugatA-

madRuShT^^vA tatKedaM kathamiha sahe SaMkara viBo || 23 ||

 

 

Oh all pervading Lord I worship you. Please appear before me immediately and

give me the ultimate joy. Oh doer of all good and Oh omnipresent God!

Instead If you reward me for my worship with the position of Brahma or

Vishnu how will I tolerate the sorrow of not seeing you but searching for

you in the sky and earth taking the form of Hamsa Bird and the varaha

animal.

 

*Commentary*

 

Hey! Parameswara! I already told you that I am not responsible for the greed

for money or the be entanged with various sense objects but the culprit is

really my mind which stole my swaroopam and is walking around as if it is

myself and I begged you to take control of this thief so I can be doing the

smaranNa of your lotus feet ceaselessly and get my janma saabalyam. But what

reply do I get? You say I can have Brahma Padhavi or Vishnu Padhavi. Is it

your intention that my janma should not have its sabalam?

 

If I had coveted Brahma Padhavi or Vishnu Padhavi why would I be begging

you? I might have as well begged Brahma or Vishnu for that. But I have

considered their padhavi as being next to nothing and coveted only your

lotus feet as my final abode. Hey! Parameswara! What is the big benefit in

getting Brahma Padhavi or Vishnu Padhavi? Have we not seen these two gods

fight against each other for supremacy and being unable to resove among

themselves, they came to you to settle their dispute. When you turned into a

great column of fire before them, they scrambled to apprehend your head and

foot and came out with a cropper. They meekly accepted their defeat and

admitted that you are the greatest! In Skanda Puraana, Maheswara kanda,

these two gods lamented:

 

Moolabhootha: Siva: saakshaath moolamasya katham bhavet,

asmaadhEva samuth bhoothOsmayaha maadhyamtha varjjithaath|

YanmayaanvEshtumaarabdham sivam pasuvapurdhrutha||

 

O! Parameswara! By a very look (eakshaNamaathram) you create, preserve and

destroy the entire universe thus proving unmistakeably that you are the

cause of all existence, but these two gods Brahma and Vishnu due to their

ahambhaavam, tried to find your source and in that they miserably failed.

Aho! Kashtam! They realized in their effort to find the source of Eternal

Shiva, they were mere pasu!

 

Hey! Parameswara! If Hari and Brahma have proved themselves as pasu why

should I covet their padhavi? After all there is no sukham in being a pasu.

 

Hey! KarunaanidhE! Aren't you Sankara? " Sankara nirdhosha nithyasukha

pradhaathaa " . You are the giver of nithyasukham of sivaananda that is

faultless and that is without paricchEdham at anytime, anywhere and by any

means. So I do my pooja to you with this sloka.

 

Sivam Sivakaram Saantham Sivaathmaanam SivOththamam |

Sivamaarga praNEthaaram praNathOsmi Sadhaasivam ||