Soundarya Lahari - Part 332

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In the shloka where it talks of the ‘I-am-one-with-You’ - people it says even the ‘wealth or prosperity’ of Shiva Himself is nothing before them. With great gymnastics of sound effect it says: ‘trinayanasamRddhiM triNayataH’ (that is, even the majesty of the three-eyed One is like straw before the wind). 

Why was it said like this? Shiva might be Ishvara; but the ‘aishvarya’ (Wealth) that gave Him that name, came from the parA-shakti. Without Her action, there is no Shiva, no Wealth of any kind for Him.

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