Sivaanandalahari - 68

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Sivaanandalahari - 68

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amitamudamRutaM muhurduhantIM

vimala-Bavatpada-goShTha-mAvasantIm |

sadaya paSupate supuNya-pAkAM

mama paripAlaya Bak^tidhenu-mekAm || 68 ||

 

 

Oh merciful Pasupathi, Please protect my cow of Devotion, which yields

unlimited ambrosia of happiness, which lives in the cowpen of your holy feet

and which is the fruit of my good deeds.

 

*Commentary*

 

*he pasupathE* = HeY! PasupathE!

*amithamudhamrutham* = that milk called amrutham that gives exceeding

happiness;

*muhu:* = often;

*dhuhantheem* = milking;

*vimalabhavathpadhaghOshtam* = In the cowpen of your faultless

saraNaaravindham;

*aavasantheem *= living;

*supuNyappakaam* = manifesting as many of puNyaathmas;

*mama* = my;

*bhakthidhEnum* = the pasu called bhakthi;

*hE sadhaya* = Hey! PrabhO! who protects the praaNis with kindness;

*paripaalaya* = do your rakshaNa of me.

 

Hey! PrabhO! You protect the praaNis with kindness. The sruthi 'rasO vai

sa:' is the brahmaanandham that is taught. I consider it as the milk

called amrutham of the greatest mahimaa. The cows that give this wondrous

milk live in the cowpen that is none other than your faultless

saraNaaravindham. One of the cows in that cowpen is my own bhakthi in the

form of a pasu. This pasu is not an ordinary pasu. As the saasthra says

" bahoonaam janmanaamanthE sivabhakthi: prajaayathE " this cow has taken many

forms due to crores of puNyas done in many janmas, yet as the sruthi says:

" EkamEvaadhvitheeyam brahma " remains only ONE. You have to save and protect

this pasu.

 

The swaarasyam of the use of the word *bhakthidhEnum *in this slOka is that

bhakthi should be known as the cow. Also that bhakthi has to be ONE viz. it

has to be ananya bhakthi. That is it has to proclaim its goal of

jeevabrahma aikya saakshaathkaaram. The saasthras roar that in its body all

remain composed. That is, by calling that ananya bhakthi as the cow, it has

to be understood that all forms of bhakthis are contained in this cow.

 

Therefore, Hey! ParamEswara! This cow of ananya bhakthi is endlessly

yielding and overflowing the milk of sivaanandhaamrutham and I am constantly

drinking it enjoying the kuthoohalam of sivaanandham. Therefore Hey!

PrabhO! you have the ability and responsibility to protect this cow called

bhakthi. If you do not perform this task then in time this ananya bhakthi

would turn into dwaitha bhakthi and would turn barren and not yield the milk

of adhvaithaamrutham. Therefore Hey! ParamEswara! You should herd this cow

in the field called 'brahmasathyam' where the green grass called 'thath

thvam asi' is lusciously growing. Then only this bhakthi pasu of mine will

be strong enough to keep yielding the milk of adhvaithaamrutham.

 

In order to ward off the objection that the anya dhEvathas could also be

cowherds bhagavathpaadhaaL uses the insightful word 'PasupathE' indicating

that he is the owner of that Pasu. That is according to " pasoonaam

brahmaadhijeevaanam pathi: paalaka ithyartha: " it should be understood that

brahmaadhi sakala dEvathas have to be understood as pasu only. And Siva is

Pasupathi. He alone knows the paripaalanam of the pasus. That is why

bhagavathpaadhaaL asks of Pasupathi to do his paripaalanam.

 

Pasupathi maharaaj ki Jai!