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vakShastADana-SaMkayA vichalito vaivasvato nirjarA:

koTIrojjvala-rat^nadIpakalikA-nIrAjanaM kurvate |

dRuSh^TvA muk^tivadhU-stanoti nibhRutASleShaM BavAnIpate

yachcheta-stava pAdapadma-BajanaM tasyeha kiM durlaBaM || 65 ||

 

 

 

What is impossible to attain for the one who does service to your Lotus feet

? Oh Bavanipati ! Yama runs away being afraid of your kick at his chest.

Devas are lighting the Camphor with the bud like shining light from the gems

in their crown. The bride of liberation embraces him at the very sight.

 

*Commentary

 

*hE bhavaanipathE = Hey! PaarvatheepathE!

yacchEtha: = whose mind;

thava = your;

paadhapadhmabhajanam = doing paadhapooja sEva and bajana;

dhrushtwaa = on seeing that bhakthaa;

vaivaswatha; = yama;

vakshasthaadanasaankyaa = frightened that he would get a kick in the chest

like before;

vichalitha:= runs far away;

nirjaraa: = devaas;

koteerOjwalarathnadheepakalikaa = (devas) with their kireetams on their head

that are studded with rathnas that dazzles;

neeraajanam = doing deepaaraadhanai;

kurvathEy = they do;

mukthivadhoo: = (the mahaavaakya 'thath thwam asi') mukthi that is

considered as a girl;

nibrudhaaslEshaNam = hugging tightly;

thanOthi = she does;

(atha: = therefore);

thasya = to him;

iha = in this world;

kim = which;

dhurlabham = that cannot be attained?

 

Let us trek back to the fourth slOka:

 

sahasram vartante jagati vibudhA: kShudraphaladA

na manye svapne vA tadanusaraNaM tatkRutaphalam |

hari-brahmAdInAmapi nikiTabhAjA-masulabhaM

chiraM yAche SaMbho Siva tava pAdAMbhoja-bhajanaM || 4 ||

 

In this stanza to the uthamOthaman, anirvachaneeya mahaathmyan and mahaa

kailaasaadhipathi ParamEswara our aachaaryaaL begged: " Hey! KaaruNyajalathE!

After all I am only a sanyaasi. Yet my mind has been waiting for a very

long time to do poojanam and bhajanam to your paadhaabjam yet never has so

far been blessed with that bhaagyam. Please give me that fortune. " In

this slOka Bhagavathpaadhaal describes that the paadhaabhjam that he had

begged for before, were to be attained because of one's poorva puNya then

what sivadhyaana can do.

 

naasthi dyaanasamam theertham naasthi dyaanasamam thapa: |

naasthi dyaanasamO yagnyasthasmaathdhyaanam samaacharEth ||

 

The saasthra says: there is no puNya theertham beyond sivadhyaanam neither

is there a greater thapas than sivadhyaanam. There is no superiior yagnyaa

to surpass sivadhyaanam and therefore sakala praaNis should do sivadhyaanam

always. Therefore Hey! ParamEswara! when someone is doing dhyaanam to your

paadhakamalam yamaa runs far away from him! Because in a earlier time when

Yama attempted to snatch the praaNan of MaarkandEya when he was doing

sivadhyaanam he got a kick of his life time in his chest which Yamaa never

forgets.

 

kaalakaNtam kalaamoorthim kaalaagnim kaalanaasanam

namaami sirasaa dEva kim nO mruthyu: karishyathi ||

gangaadharam sasidharam sankaram soolapaaNinam |

namaami sirasaa devamkinO mruthyu: karishyathi

chandrasEkharamaasrayE mama kimkarishyathi vai yama: ||

 

That is how MaarkanDeya cried out to ParamEswara hugging the lingam so

tightly. This was sivadhyaanam par excellence! When Yama distrubed that he

got an unforgettable kick on his chest!

 

Hey! PrabhO! To him who does sivadhyaanam you make the three lOkas come into

his aadheenam. When his sivadhyaanam leads him into manOnaasam the

mahaavaakya 'thath thwam asi' transaforms into the girl called Mukthi who

tighly hugs him. Thus bhagavathpaadhaaL says that there is nothing that is

beyond the reach of a person doing sivadhyaanam.

 

Mruthyunjaya mahadEva MahEswara Sankara subha Charanaa!