Text 33]
Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Śiva
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śrī-rudraḥ uvāca—Lord Śiva began to speak; jitam—all glories; te—unto You; ātma-vit—self-realized; varya—the best; svastaye—unto the auspicious; svastiḥ—auspiciousness; astu—let there be; me—of me; bhavatā—by You; ārādhasā—by the all-perfect; rāddham—worshipable; sarvātmā—the Supreme Soul; ātmane—unto the Supreme Soul; namaḥ—obeisances.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śiva addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead with the following prayer: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all glories unto You. You are the most exalted of all self-realized souls. Since You are always auspicious for the self-realized, I wish that You will be auspicious for me. You are worshipable by virtue of the all-perfect instructions which You give. You are the Supersoul; therefore I offer my obeisances unto You as the supreme living being.
PURPORT
As long as a devotee is inspired by the Lord to offer the Lord a prayer, the devotee immediately glorifies the Lord in the beginning by saying, “All glories unto You, my Lord.” The Lord is glorified because He is considered to be the chief of all self-realized souls. As said in the  Vedas  ( nityo nityānām cetanaś cetanānām ,  Kaṭha , 2.2.13), the Supreme Being, the Personality of Godhead, is the chief living being amongst all living beings. There are different kinds of individual living beings—some of them are in this material world, and some are in the spiritual world. Those who are in the spiritual world are known to be completely self-realized because on the spiritual platform the living entity is not forgetful of his service to the Lord. Therefore in the spiritual world all those who are in the devotional service of the Lord are eternally fixed, for they understand the position of the Supreme Being, as well as their individual constitution. Thus amongst self-realized souls, the Lord is known as the perfectly self-realized soul.  Nityo nityānām cetanaś cetanānām . When the individual soul is fixed in his knowledge of the Lord as the Supreme Being, he actually becomes established in an all-auspicious position. Lord Śiva prays herein that his auspicious position will continue eternally by virtue of the Lord’s mercy upon him.
The Supreme Lord is all-perfect, and the Lord instructs that one who worships Him also becomes perfect. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā :  mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanam ca  (Bg. 15.15). The Lord is situated as the Supersoul in everyone’s heart, but He is so kind to His devotees that He gives them instructions by which they may continue to progress. When they re-