72 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 2
visantu siva-diksayam
yatra daivam surasavam
nasta-saucah—cleanliness being abandoned; mudha-dhiyah—foolish; jata-
bhasmasthi-dharinah— wearing long hair, ashes and bones; visantu—may
enter; siva-diksayam—into initiation of worship of Siva; yatra—where;
daivam—are spiritual; sura-asavam— wine and liquor.
TRANSLATION
Those who vow to worship Lord Siva are so foolish that they imitate
him 7 keeping long hair on their heads. When initiated into worship of
Lord Siva, they prefer to live on wine, flesh and other such things.
PURPORT
Indulging in wine and meat, keeping long hair on one’s head, not
bathing daily, and smoking ganja, marijuana, are some of the habits which
are accepted by foolish creatures who do not have regulated lives. By such
behavior one becomes devoid of transcendental knowledge. In the initiation
into the Siva mantra there are mudrikastaka, in which it is sometimes
recommended that one make his sitting place on the vagina and thus
desire nirvana, or dissolution of existence. In that process of worship,
wine is needed, or sometimes, in place of wine, palm tree juice which is
converted into an intoxicant. This is also offered according to Siva-dgama,
a scripture on the method of worshiping Lord Siva.
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brahma ca brahmanams caiva
yad yuyam parinindatha
setum vidharanam pumsam
atah pdsandam asritah
brahma—the Vedas; ca—and; brahmanan— the brahmanas ; ca—and; eva—
certainly; yat—because; yuyam—you; parinindatha—blaspheme; setum—
Vedic principles; vidharanam—holding; pumsam—of mankind; atah—there-
fore; pasandam—atheism; asritah—have taken shelter.
