Lord Siva Saves the Universe by Drinking Poison

Pankaja_Dasa · 08-15-2005, 03:48 PM

Hearin Bhagavatam came accross this: Had to check Vedabase [www.vedabase.net] Purports. Read this Verse + Purport you'll be shocked!

Lord Siva Saves the Universe by Drinking Poison

Sb-8.7.31
na te giri-trakhila-loka-pala-
virinca-vaikuntha-surendra-gamyam
jyotih param yatra rajas tamas ca
sattvam na yad brahma nirasta-bhedam

SYNONYMS
na—not; te—of Your Lordship; giri-tra—O King of the mountains; akhila-loka-pala—all the directors of departments of material activities; virinca—Lord Brahma; vaikuntha—Lord Vishnu; sura-indra—the King of heaven; gamyam—they can understand; jyotih—effulgence; param—transcendental; yatra—wherein; rajah—the mode of passion; tamah ca—and the mode of ignorance; sattvam—the mode of goodness; na—not; yat brahma—which is impersonal Brahman; nirasta-bhedam—without distinction between demigods and human beings.

TRANSLATION
O Lord Girisa, since the impersonal Brahman effulgence is transcendental to the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, the various directors of this material world certainly cannot appreciate it or even know where it is. It is not understandable even to Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu or the King of heaven, Mahendra.

PURPORT
The brahmajyoti is actually the effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in Brahma-samhita (5.40):

yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-
kotishv asesha-vasudhadi-vibhuti-bhinnam
tad brahma nishkalam anantam asesha-bhutam
govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami

“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is endowed with great power. The glowing effulgence of His transcendental form is the impersonal Brahman, which is absolute, complete and unlimited and which displays the varieties of countless planets, with their different opulences, in millions and millions of universes.”

Although the impersonal feature of the Absolute is an expansion of the rays of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He does not need to take care of the impersonalists who enter the brahmajyoti. Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita (9.4), maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina: “In My impersonal feature I pervade this entire universe.” Thus the avyakta-murti, the impersonal feature, is certainly an expansion of Krishna’s energy. Mayavadis, who prefer to merge into this Brahman effulgence, worship Lord Siva. The mantras referred to in text 29 are called mukhani pancopanishadas tavesa. Mayavadis take all these mantras seriously in worshiping Lord Siva. These mantras are as follows: (1) tat purushaya vidmahe santyai, (2) maha-devaya dhimahi vidyayai, (3) tan no rudrah pratishthayai, (4) pracodayat dhrityai, (5) aghorebhyas tama. .., (6) atha ghorebhyo moha. .., (7) aghorebhyo raksha. .., (8) aghoratarebhyo nidra. .., (9) sarvebhyah sarva-vyadhyai, (10) sarva-sarvebhyo mrityave, (11) namas te ’stu kshudha. .., (12) rudra-rupebhyas trishna. .., (13) vamadevaya raja. .., (14) jyeshthaya svaha. .., (15) sreshthaya ratyai, (16) rudraya kalyanyai, (17) kalaya kama. .., (18) kala-vikaranaya sandhinyai, (19) bala-vikaranaya kriya. .., (20) balaya vriddhyai, (21) balacchaya. .., (22) pramathanaya dhatryai, (23) sarva-bhuta-damanaya bhramanyai, (24) manah-soshinyai, (25) unmanaya jvara. .., (26) sadyojatam prapadyami siddhyai, (27) sadyojataya vai namah riddhyai, (28) bhave dityai, (29) abhave lakshmyai, (30) natibhave medha. .., (31) bhajasva mam kantyai, (32) bhava svadha. .., (33) udbhavaya prabha..., (34) isanah sarva-vidyanam sasinyai, (35) isvarah sarva-bhutanam abhaya-da... [Bg. 18.61], (36) brahmadhipatir brahmanodhipatir brahman brahmeshta-da. .., (37) sivo me astu maricyai, (38) sadasivah jvalinyai.

The impersonal Brahman is unknown even to the other directors of the material creation, including Lord Brahma, Lord Indra and even Lord Vishnu. This does not mean, however, that Lord Vishnu is not omniscient. Lord Vishnu is omniscient, but He does not need to understand what is going on in His all-pervading expansion. Therefore in Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that although everything is an expansion of Him (maya tatam idam sarvam), He does not need to take care of everything (na caham teshv avasthitah), since there are various directors like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Indra.