Soundarya Lahari - Shloka 2

 तनीयांसं पांसुं तव चरणपङ्केरुहभवं

विरिञ्चिस्सञ्चिन्वन् विरचयति लोकानविकलम्।

वहत्येनं शौरिः कथमपि सहस्रेण शिरसा

हरस्संक्षुद्यैनं भजति भसितोद्धूलनविधिम्॥


तनीयांसं

Very minute

पांसुं

Dust particles

तव चरणपङ्केरुहभवं

Which are below your lotus feet

विरिञ्चिः

Lord Brahma

सञ्चिन्वन्

Collecting them

विरचयति

Creates

लोकानविकलम्

All the worlds to perfection

वहत्येनं

(Vishnu) carries or sustains this creation

शौरिः

Vishnu

कथमपि

Somehow

सहस्रेण शिरसा

With a thousand heads

हर:

Lord Shiva

संक्षुद्य एनं

Destroys all this into fine powder

भसितोद्धूलनविधिम् भजति

Smears all over His body as sacred ash

 O Goddess, Lord Brahma collects the dust below your feet and creates all these worlds (from the dust) to perfection. This creation is then sustained by Lord Vishnu with great effort, with his thousand heads. Lord Shiva destroys all this into a fine powder and smears all over His body as sacred ash.

This shloka conveys certain aspects of creation. Brahma, the creator, is said to use the minutest particles of energy, which after undergoing sustenance (by Lord Vishnu) for a while, return back to dust at the time of Pralaya (by Lord Shiva). Lord Shiva is then said to smear this dust all over His body.

The Yantra and the Beeja mantra for this verse is as follows.



Chanting this shloka in a prescribed way provides the seeker Siddhi, which means that he has control over matter. He would be capable of obtaining materialistic things. He has the choice to obtain inner well-being or Moksha too. 

The prescribed method of chanting this shloka is to chant one thousand times daily, for 55 days, to attain Siddhi.

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