Siva Mahimna Stotram part 3 translated by Sri V V B Rama Rao

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O Slayer of Demon Tripura! Some call the world one without beginning

and end. Some say it is not transient; some say it real, some say it

is unreal. All these surprise me but through these ver beliefs I sing

your praise without any hesitation or shyness. For the garrulous also

happen to be stubborn.

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O Gireesa! Your form with effulgent brilliance, Your pervasive light

and inconceivably limitless hugeness could not be assessed or seen

even by Brahma and Vishnu who tried to see the top and the bottom of

the shape. They could find neither the end nor the beginning. But

when once they sent up ardent prayers didn't You in Your infinite

love for the devout reveal Yourself! For those who seek refuge in you

wholehearted and with a sense of total surrender there could never be

any dearth of Your blessings!

 

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Lord of the Mountain! Ravana conquered all the three worlds and made

himself invincible, with no enemies or contenders. With his itch for

battles and victories, he had twenty shoulders and ten heads. With

intense and unwavering faith he offered his own heads as offering to

you. Was not that the reason for his prowess and courage!

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With his extraordinary devotion and worship and the powers You

bestowed on him, Ravana could shake Your abode, the Kailash mountain.

But didn't You, with the tip of Your little finger, when you crushed

him, he could not find shelter. The one ungrateful would be enticed

in moha, the undesirable sinful attachment.

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O Wish fulfilling Deity! It was with Your grace that the demon

Banasura could subdue even Devendra, who had limitless wealth and

power. Being obedient toYou would lead anyone to sublimity and height

of glory.

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O three eyed Supreme! While the deities and demons were churning the

ocean up came kalaakoota, the dire and deadly poison that would have

burnt all the three worlds. With Your compassion You swallowed it in

and retaining the poison in your throat saved the creation with the

result that Your throat turned blue and left a stain there. You were

given

the appellation of Neelkanth, the blue throated one. That very stain

marks You out as the greatest, the most powerful and noble. That very

stain is extremely praiseworthy for it could dispel the fears of all

the deities and save all the worlds.

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O the Lord of the Universe! Manmadha, the love deity, the one who for

the victory of the universe could shoot his arrows on anyone,

remained just a memory for You burnt him down by opening Your third

eye for belittling You by thinking that You would be won over by his

proud arrow. Little did he realize that You were jitendriya, the one

who conquers his own sensory organs.