Text 33] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1063
gri-rudrah uvaca—Lord Siva began to speak; jitam—all glories; te—unto
You ; dtma-vit—self-realized; varya—the best; svastaye—unto the auspicious;
svastih—auspiciousness; astu—let there be; me—of me; bhavata—by You;
dradhasa—by the all-perfect; raddham—worshipable; sarvatma—the Supreme
Soul; atmane—unto the Supreme Soul; namah—obeisances.
TRANSLATION

Lord Siva addressed the Supreme Personality of Godhead with the fol-
lowing 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
nityanam cetanas cetananam, Katha, 2.2.13), the Supreme Being, the Per-
sonality 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 nityanam cetanas cetananam. When the individual soul is fixed in
his knowledge of the Lord as the Supreme Being, he actually becomes estab-
lished in an all-auspicious position. Lord Siva 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-gita: mattah
smrtir jianam apohanam ca (Bg. 15.15). The Lord is situated as the Super-
soul 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-
