1068 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 24
TRANSLATION

My Lord, as the supreme directing Deity known as Aniruddha, You are
the master of the senses and the mind, I therefore offer my obeisances
unto You again and again. You are known as Ananta as well as Sarikargana
because of Your ability to destroy the whole creation by the blazing fire
from Your mouth.

PURPORT

Hrsikesendriyatmane. The mind is the director of the senses, and Lord
Aniruddha is the director of the mind. In order to execute devotional
service, one has to fix his mind on the lotus feet of Krsna; therefore Lord
Siva prays to the controller of the mind, Lord Aniruddha, to be pleased
and to help him engage his mind on the lotus feet of the Lord. It is stated
in Bhagavad-gita: man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yajt mam namaskuru
(Bg. 9.34). The mind has to be engaged in meditation on the lotus feet of
the Lord in order to execute devotional service. It is also stated in Bhagavad-
a sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto

mattah smrtir jia@nam apohanam ca
vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham
“Tl am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowl-
edge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am | to be known; indeed I am
the compiler of Vedanta, and | am the knower of the Vedas.” (Bg. 15.15)

Thus if Lord Aniruddha is pleased, He can help the mind engage in the
service of the Lord. It is also indicated in this verse that Lord Aniruddha is
the sun-god by virtue of His expansions. Since the predominating deity of
the sun is an expansion of Lord Aniruddha, Lord Siva also prays to the
sun-god in this verse.

Lord Krsna, by His quadruple expansion (Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
Pradyumna and Aniruddha), is the Lord of psychic action—namely, think-
ing, feeling, willing and acting. Lord Siva prays to Lord Aniruddha as the
sun-god who is the controlling deity of the external material elements which
constitute the construction of the material body. According to Srila
Visvanatha Cakravartt Thakura, the word paramahamsa is also another
name for the sun-god. The sun-god is addressed herein as nibhrtatmane,
which indicates that he always maintains the various planets by manipulat-
ing the rainfall. The sun-god evaporates water from the seas and oceans and
then forms the water into clouds and distributes it over land. When there is
sufficient rainfall, grains are produced, and these grains maintain living
