They depict the Lordship of Rudra-Shiva or sarveshvaratvaM. Come ye all, enjoy it all along with me and let us hope that some of it will sink into our system and clear part of the rubbish within.ġ3 mantras of # 2 and first 8 mantras of # 3 are of one kind. The meanings that the commentators have unearthed in the words of this vedic soliloquy reach heights of profundity, religious and spiritual. The advaita declaration of the Upanishads that everything is nothing but the manifestation of the mighty Absolute, is the main current (not only under-current) in the almost unending sequence of names and manifestations of Rudra-Shiva which is what reverberates in the recitation of Rudram. Now the next three anuvakas get into the real style of Rudram that keeps on listing the multifarious epithets describing His immanence that shines in every name and form whether human or non-human, whether animate or inanimate, whether of the good or of the bad, whether of the ugly or of the lovely, whether of the gruesome or of the enchanting. By the way, the namaH is not mere bodily genuflexion but is really a sharaNAgati, utter surrender of oneself, taking refuge in God, through body, mind and soul The first anuvaka was praying to the Lord to come out of his terrific form, which, to us, appears to hinder the descent of His Grace but really His ferociousness is only towards our sins and our sinning habits. The three anuvakas 2,3, and 4 constitute the double namah portion of Rudram. The brahmana part of the veda says that the double namah yajus are addressed to the ghora form of Rudra and the single namah portion to the shanta svarupa of Rudra, viz., Shiva. Shriman mahAdevAya : to the glorious and great God (A reiteration ) SadashivAya : to the always auspicious One SarveshvarAya : Lord of everything, animate and inanimate MRRityunjayAya : to Him who conquered Yama (cf. NIlakaNThAya : to the one who has a blue throat KAlAgnirudrAya: to Rudra in his duty of dissolution TrikAlAgnikAlAya (alternate version): to the final pralaya time when the three fires of destruction burn and consume the whole universe TrikAgnikAlAya : to the Sandhyakala when the three sacred fires are lit TryambakAya: to Him with three eyes – Sun, Moon and the third eye tripurAntakAya : to the Lord whose third eye burnt three Asuras Allegorically the spiritual knowledge burning the three states MahAdevAya : to the The great one among the gods VisveshvarAya : to the Lord of the universe Before beginning anuvaka 2 there is a tradition in southern India to recite a praise of salutation beginning with Namaste astu bhagavan to Lord Shiva in his various names and forms listed below:
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