Text 62] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1105

TEXT 62

firarmeenteda = afta:
Taltearat: arg Tatra faa |
OE Cla UCI Gl
Waa aa aT BA: sail

kriya-kalapair idam eva yoginah
sraddhanvitah sadhu yajanti siddhaye
bhiitendriyantahkaranopalaksitar
vede ca tantre ca ta eva kovidah

kriya—activities; kalapaih—by processes; idam—this; eva—certainly; yogi-
nah—transcendentalists; sraddhd-anvitah—with faith and _ conviction;
sadhu—properly; yajanti—worship; siddhaye—for perfection; bhuta—the
material energy; indriya—senses;antah-karana—heart; upalaksitam—sy mpto-
mized by; vede—in the Vedas; ca—also; tantre—in the corollaries of the
Vedas; ca—also; te— Y our Lordship; eva—certainly; kovidah—those who are
experts.

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, Your universal form consists of all five elements—the
senses, mind, intelligence, false ego (which is material) and the Paramatma,
Your partial expansion who is the director of everything. With the
exception of the devotees, the other yogis—namely the karma-yogi and
jfiiana-yogi—worship You by their respective actions in their respective
positions. It is stated both in the Vedas and in the sastras that are
corollaries of the Vedas, and indeed everywhere, that it is only You who
are to be worshiped. That is the expert version of all the Vedas.

PURPORT

In the previous verse Lord Siva wanted to see the form of the Lord
which the devotees are always interested in. There are other forms of the
Lord manifest in the material world, including Brahma and other demigods,
and these are worshiped by materialistic persons. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it
is stated that those who desire material benefits are recommended to wor-
ship different types of demigods.

akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama udara-dhih
fivrena bhakti-yogena yajeta purusam param (Bhag. 2.3.10)
