Sivaanandalahari - 87

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ASanaM garalaM PaNI kalApo

vasanaM charma cha vAhanaM mahokSha: |

mama dAsayasi kiM kimasti SaMBo

tava pAdAMbuja-Baktimeva dehi || 87 ||

 

 

 

Oh Sambhu, your food is poison; ornament is snake; dress is hides and

vehicle is big bull. Which of my requirements among them are you going to

give me? What do you have? Please grant me Bhakti to your lotus feet.

 

*Commentary

 

**hE sambhO = *Hey! the bestower of sukham!

*thava* = to you;

*asanam* =the food;

*gharalam* = the aalaahala visham;

*kalaapa:* = the ornament;

*paNee* = sarpam;

*vasanam* = vasthram;

*charma* = (elephant's) skin;

*vaahanam cha *= the vehicle;

*mahOksha:* = the huge bull;

*atha:* = therefore;

*kim* = what;

*dhaasyasi *= would you give;

*mama *= to me;

*kim* = which of the above;

*asthi *= would it be;

*paadhaambuja**bhakthimEva* = the bhakthi in your paadhapadhmam alone;

*dhEhi* = please give.

 

Hey! SambhO! you are the cause of sukham. You remain the superior dhEvatha

among all the dhEvas. Yet the food you seem to eat is the most venomous of

the poisons. Your ornaments are the dreadful snakes. Your vasthram on you

is the strange skin of an elephant. And above all you have an old slow

moving bull as your vehicle. When such is the case what would you give me?

What is that you have that I might like?

 

AachaaryaaL's depiction that ParamEswara has nothing in his possession to

give him and openly wondering what would be that the Lord would be able to

give and thus tells Him that he can atleast allow him to do poojanam to his

paadhaaravindham. The thaathparyam of this slOka is: Hey! PrabhO!

Everytime I do seva I have something in mind to ask you of and this results

in kaamya bhakthi only. Therefore, Hey! ParamEswara! you have to teach me

the thathwam of 'brahma sathyam, jagan mithyaa' so I can consider sakalam as

thriNam and to do constant smaraNam of your paadhaabjam with nishkaamyam in

my mind. ParvatheepathE! This is the only thing that I have been begging

of you.

 

Nama: Paarvathee PathayE Hara Hara MahaadhEva!