Text 36] Lord Brahma Satisfies Lord Siva 191
tion. He was the friend of the entire world, and due to his full affection
for everyone, he was very auspicious.

PURPORT

Lord Siva is full of wisdom and tapasya, austerity. One who knows the
modes of work is understood to be situated on the path of devotional
service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One cannot serve the
Supreme Personality of Godhead unless he has achieved full perfectional
knowledge in the ways and means of performing devotional service.

Lord Siva is described here as adhisvara. Isvara means “controller,” and
adhisvara means particularly “controller of the senses.” Generally our
materially contaminated senses are apt to engage in sense gratificatory
activities, but when a person is elevated by wisdom and austerity, the
senses then become purified, and they become engaged in the service of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Siva is the emblem of such
perfection, and therefore in the scriptures, it is said, vaisnavanam yatha
sambhuh: Lord Siva is a Vaisnava. Lord Siva, by his action within this
material world, teaches all conditioned souls how to engage in devotional
service twenty-four hours a day. Therefore he is described here as
loka-mangala, good fortune personified for all conditioned souls.

TEXT 36
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lingam ca tapasabhistarh
bhasma-danda-jatajinam
angena sandhyabhra-ruca
candra-lekham ca bibhratam

liigam—symptom; ca—and; tapasa-abhistam—desired by Saivite ascetics;
bhasma—ashes; danda—staff; jafa—matted hair; ajinam—antelope skin;
angena—with his body; sandh yabhra— reddish; ruca—colored;candra-lekham
—the crest of a half moon; ca—and; bibhratam—bearing.

TRANSLATION

He was seated on a deer skin and was practicing all forms of austerity.
Because his body was smeared with ashes, he looked like an evening cloud.
On his hair was the sign of a half moon, a symbolic representation.
