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idaM te yuk^taM vA paramaSiva kAruNyajaladhe

gatau tiryagrUpaM tava padaSiro-darSana-dhiyA |

haribrahmANau tau divi Buvi charantau Sramayutau

kathaM SaaMBo svAmin kathaya mama vedyosi purata: || 99 ||

 

 

 

Oh Lord ParamaShiva, Oh ocean of mercy,in order to find your feet and the

hair Brahma and VishNu took the form of a bird and an animal and became

tired after searching in the sky and the earth. Oh. Shambo the grantor of

auspicious things, Oh God, How have you become so easy to be seen and

recognised by me? Is it proper for you ?

 

*Commentary

 

**hE paramasiva* = Hey! ParamEswara!

*kaaruNyajalathE* = Hey! Limitless ocean of Mercy!

*thava* = your;

*padhasirOdharsanadhiyaa *= with the buddhi to do dharshanam of the head and

the feet;

*thiryagroopam* = taking the form of varaakam and annapakshi of the pasu and

pakshi jaathis;

*ghathou* = those of who attained these forms;

*thow* = of such mahimaas;

*haribrahmaaNow *= Hari and Brahma;

*dhivi* = in the sky;

*bhuvi* = in the depth of bhoolOka;

*charanthO *= having been the chanchaaris;

*sramayuthow* = were tired;

*atha:* = therefore;

*hE sambhO* = Hey! MangalakaranE;

*hE swaamin *= Hey! Swaamin!

*mama* = my;

*puratha:* = before;

*katham* = how;

*vedhya:* = be a knower;

*asi* = you be;

*kathaya* = please tell;

*idham* = this act;

*thE* = to you;

*yuktham vaa* = is it appropriate; is it nyaayam?

 

Hey! ParamasivakaaruNyajalathE = With the buddhi to have your paadha

dharsanam saakshaath Mahaavishnu took the form of a boar and dug deep into

the earth. In the same way thapO moorthy Brahma took the form of a swan and

flew up in the sky taking with him bilva dhaLams to do archana on your

head. They did this digging and flying for thousands of years but were only

tired but never reached their objective. Thus being beond the reach of

these great devaas such as Hari and Brahma, have you ever thought that you

now stand before me in full splendour knowing full well that I am far

asakthan compared to these greatest of the devaas? Are you right in doing

this? How can you justify this to those Brahmaadhi Devathaas?

 

From this pleading of our AachaaryaaL it is clear that he is hilighting the

fact that ParamEswara is paraadheenan and Siva will do anything for the

bhakthaas. Simply he is adhisulabhan is the siddhaantham. Hey! SambO! How

can I describe the Ocean of Mercy that you are! You are the temple of

kaaruNyam!

 

What is important to know is that sakala praaNis should give up doing

aaraadhana to alpa dhEvathaas but worship Paramasivaa with endless bhakthi

and have layam in the KaruNaajalam of Sambhu. This alone is the superior

palan of having attained the human birth.

 

Whoever chants this slOka and does a namaskaaram in Sivasannidhi will

certainly find their layam in Sivaswaroopam.

 

Aum Namasivaaya!