Text 25] Pregnancy of Diti in the Evening 549
and spiritual suicide causes loss of the individual identity. Mayavadi phi-
losophers desire to lose their individuality and merge into the impersonal
spiritual brahmajyoti existence. Lord Siva, 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, Kasyapa wanted to
impress this fact upon Diti so that she might wait for a while.
TEXT 25
Sans
Raltaaaeem: |
AMAPSHSVTAEl
cara: reat SaTET UI
§masana-cakranila-dhuli-dhumra-
vikirna-vidy ota-jata-kalapah
bhasmavagunthamala-ruk ma-deho
devas tribhih pasyati devaras te
§masana—burning crematorium; cakra-anila—whirlwind; dhuli—dust;
dhumra—smoky; vikirna-vidyota—thus smeared over beauty; jata-kalapah —
bunches of matted hair; bhasma—ashes; avaguntha—covered by; amala—
stainless; rukma—reddish; dehah—body; devah—the demigod; tribhih—
with three eyes; pasyati—sees; devarah—younger brother of the husband;
te—your.
TRANSLATION
Lord Siva’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 Siva is not an ordinary living entity, nor is he in the category of
Visnu, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is far more powerful
than any living entity up to the standard of Brahma, yet he is not on an
equal level with Visnu. Since he is almost like Lord Visnu, Siva 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
