SB 8.16.32 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.16.32

नम: शिवाय रुद्राय नम: शक्तिधराय च । सर्वविद्याधिपतये भूतानां पतये नम: ॥ ३२ ॥

namaḥ śivāya rudrāya

[namah shivaaya rudraaya]

namaḥ śakti-dharāya ca

[namah shakti-dharaaya cha]

sarva-vidyādhipataye

[sarva-vidyaadhipataye]

bhūtānāṁ pataye namaḥ

[bhootaanaam pataye namah]

Word-for-word

namaḥ — I offer my respectful obeisances unto You śivāya — the incarnation named Lord Śiva rudrāya — the expansion named Rudra namaḥ — obeisances śakti-dharāya — the reservoir of all potencies ca — and sarva-vidyā-adhipataye — the reservoir of all knowledge bhūtānām — of the living entities pataye — the supreme master namaḥ — I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

namaḥ śivāya rudrāya

namaḥ

I offer my respectful obeisances unto You

śivāya

the incarnation named Lord Śiva

rudrāya

the expansion named Rudra

namaḥ śakti-dharāya ca

namaḥ

obeisances

śakti-dharāya

the reservoir of all potencies

and

sarva-vidyādhipataye

sarva-vidyā-adhipataye

the reservoir of all knowledge

bhūtānāṁ pataye namaḥ

bhūtānām

of the living entities

pataye

the supreme master

namaḥ

I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, Lord Śiva, or Rudra, who are the reservoir of all potencies, the reservoir of all knowledge, and the master of everyone.

Purport

It is the system for one to offer obeisances unto the expansion or incarnation of the Lord. Lord Śiva is the incarnation of ignorance, one of the material modes of nature.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

I offer my respectful obeisances unto you as Śiva or Rudra, who are the reservoir of all potencies, the lord of all knowledge, and the master of everyone.

Personal Guidance

Obeisances to You as Śiva-Rudra — reservoir of all potencies and knowledge. Even prayer to Viṣṇu includes obeisance to the destructive aspect. The complete prayer honors every face of the one Lord.

Reflection Questions

Whose 'destructive' face do I avoid in my own worship — and what does that avoidance cost?
Where am I selectively honoring only the comfortable aspects of divinity?

📝 My note

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