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Pregnancy of Diti in the Evening
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and spiritual suicide causes loss of the individual identity. Māyāvādī philosophers desire to lose their individuality and merge into the impersonal spiritual  brahmajyoti  existence. Lord Śiva, being very kind to the ghosts, sees that, although they are condemned, they get physical bodies. He places them into the wombs of women who indulge in sexual intercourse regardless of the restrictions on time and circumstance. Kaśyapa wanted to impress this fact upon Diti so that she might wait for a while.
TEXT 25
अशनचक्रानितधूलिधूम्र-
विकीर्णविद्योतजटाकलापः ।
मसावगुण्ठामलरुक्मदेहो
देवस्त्रिमिः पश्यति देवरस्ते ॥२५॥
śmaśāna-cakrānila-dhūli-dhūmra-
vikīrṇa-vidyota-jaṭā-kalāpaḥ
bhasmāvaguṇṭhāmala-rukma-deho
devas tribhiḥ paśyati devaras te
śmaśāna —burning crematorium;  cakra-anila —whirlwind;  dhūli —dust;  dhūmra —smoky;  vikīrṇa-vidyota —thus smeared over beauty;  jaṭā-kalāpaḥ —bunches of matted hair;  bhasma —ashes;  avaguṇṭha —covered by;  amala —stainless;  rukma —reddish;  dehaḥ —body;  devaḥ —the demigod;  tribhiḥ —with three eyes;  paśyati —sees;  devaraḥ —younger brother of the husband;  te —your.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śiva's body is reddish, and he is unstained, but he is covered with ashes. His hair is dusty from the whirlwind dust of the burning crematorium. He is the younger brother of your husband, and he sees with his three eyes.
PURPORT
Lord Śiva is not an ordinary living entity, nor is he in the category of Viṣṇu, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is far more powerful than any living entity up to the standard of Brahmā, yet he is not on an equal level with Viṣṇu. Since he is almost like Lord Viṣṇu, Śiva can see past, present and future. One of his eyes is like the sun, another is like the moon, and his third eye, which is between his eyebrows, is like fire. He can generate fire from his middle eye, and he is able to vanquish any