TEXT 12
pasya prayantir abhavanya-yosito
py alankrtah kanta-sakha varuthasah
yasam vrajadbhih siti-kantha manditam
nabho vimanaih kala-hamsa-pandubhih
SYNONYMS
pasyajust see; prayantihgoing; abhavaO never-born; anya-yositahother women; apicertainly; alankrtahornamented; kanta-sakhahwith their husbands and friends; varuthasahin large numbers; yasamof them; vrajadbhihflying; siti-kanthaO blue-throated one; manditamdecorated; nabhahthe sky; vimanaihwith airplanes; kala-hamsaswans; pandubhihwhite.
TRANSLATION
O never-born, O blue-throated one, not only my relatives but also other women, dressed in nice clothes and decorated with ornaments, are going there with their husbands and friends. Just see how their flocks of white airplanes have made the entire sky very beautiful.
PURPORT
Here Lord Siva is addressed as abhava, which means one who is never born, although generally he is known as bhava, one who is born. Rudra, Lord Siva, is actually born from between the eyes of Brahma, who is called Svayambhu because he is not born of any human being or material creature but is born directly from the lotus flower which grows from the abdomen of Visnu. When Lord Siva is addressed here as abhava, this may be taken to mean one who has never felt material miseries. Sati wanted to impress upon her husband that even those who were not related to her father were also going, to say nothing of herself, who was intimately related with him. Lord Siva is addressed here as blue throated. Lord Siva drank an ocean of poison and kept it in his throat, not swallowing it or allowing it to go down to his stomach, and thus his throat became blue. Since then he has been known as nilakantha, or blue throated. The reason that Lord Siva drank an ocean of poison was for others benefit. When the ocean was churned by the demigods and the demons, the churning at first produced poison, so because the poisonous ocean might have affected others who were not so advanced, Lord Siva drank all the ocean water. In other words, he could drink such a great amount of poison for others benefit, and now, since his wife was personally requesting him to go to her fathers house, even if he did not wish to give that permission, he should do so out of his great kindness.

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