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Creation of the Kumāras and Others
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yat —as much as;  arodīḥ —cried loudly;  sura-śreṣṭha —O chief of the demigods;  sodvegaḥ —with great anxiety;  iva —like;  bālakaḥ —a boy;  tataḥ —therefore;  tvām —you;  abhidhāsyanti —will call;  nāmnā —by the name;  rudra —Rudra;  iti —thus;  prajāḥ —people.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter Brahmā said: O chief of the demigods, you shall be called by the name Rudra by all people because you have so anxiously cried.
TEXT 11
हृदिन्द्रियाण्यमुन्योम वायुरप्रिर्जलं मही । सूर्यश्चन्द्रस्तपञ्चैव स्थानान्यग्रे कृतानि ते ॥११॥
hṛd indriyāṇy asur vyoma vāyur agnir jalam mahī sūryaś candras tapaś caiva sthānāny agre kṛtāni te
hṛt —the heart;  indriyāṇi —the senses;  asuḥ —life air;  vyoma —the sky;  vāyuḥ —the air;  agniḥ —fire;  jalam —water;  mahī —the earth;  sūryaḥ —the sun;  candraḥ —the moon;  tapaḥ —austerity;  ca —as well as;  eva —certainly;  sthānāni —all these places;  agre —hereinbefore;  kṛtāni —already made;  te —for your.
TRANSLATION
My dear boy, I have already selected the following places for your residence: the heart, the senses, the air of life, the sky, the air, the fire, the water, the earth, the sun, the moon and austerity.
PURPORT
The creation of Rudra from between the eyebrows of Brahmā as the result of his anger, generated from the mode of passion partly touched by ignorance, is very significant. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the principle of Rudra is described (Bg. 3.37).  Krodha  (anger) is the product of  kāma  (lust), which is the result of the mode of passion. When lust and hankering are unsatisfied, the element of  krodha  appears, which is the formidable enemy of the conditioned soul. This most sinful and inimical passion is represented as  ahaṅkāra , or the false egocentric attitude of thinking oneself to be all in all. Such an egocentric attitude on the part of the conditioned soul, who