यैस्त्रिंशदष्टोत्तरमन्त्रवर्गः ।
यत् तच्छिवाख्यं परमात्मतत्त्वं
देव स्वयंज्योतिरवस्थितिस्ते ॥२९॥
mukhÄni pañcopaniá¹£adas taveÅ›a
yais trimÅ›ad-aá¹£á¹ottara-mantra-vargaḥ
yat tac chivÄkhyaá¹ paramÄtma-tattvaá¹
deva svayaá¹-jyotir avasthitis te
mukhÄni - faces; pañca - five; upaniá¹£adaḥ - Vedic literatures; tava - your; Ä«Å›a - O lord; yaiḥ - by which; trimÅ›at-aá¹£á¹a-uttara-mantra-vargaḥ - in the category of thirty-eight important Vedic mantras; yat - that; tat - as it is; Å›iva-Äkhyam - celebrated by the name Åšiva; paramÄtma-tattvam - which ascertain the truth about ParamÄtmÄ; deva - O lord; svayam-jyotiḥ - self-illuminated; avasthitiḥ - situation; te - of Your Lordship.
O lord, the five important Vedic mantras are represented by your five faces, from which the thirty-eight most celebrated Vedic mantras have been generated. Your Lordship, being celebrated as Lord Åšiva, is self-illuminated. You are directly situated as the supreme truth, known as ParamÄtmÄ.
The five mantras mentioned in this connection are as follows: (1) Puruá¹£a, (2) Aghora, (3) SadyojÄta, (4) VÄmadeva, and (5) ĪśÄna. These five mantras are within the category of thirty-eight special Vedic mantras chanted by Lord Åšiva, who is therefore celebrated as Åšiva or MahÄdeva. Another reason why Lord Åšiva is called Åšiva, which means “all-auspicious,†is that he is self-illuminated, exactly like Lord Viṣṇu, who is the ParamÄtmÄ. Because Lord Åšiva is directly an incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu, he is situated as Lord Viṣṇu’s direct representative. This fact is corroborated by a Vedic mantra: patiá¹ viÅ›vasyÄtmeÅ›varaá¹ Å›ÄÅ›vatam. Å›ivam acyutam. The Supersoul is called by many names, of which MaheÅ›vara, Åšiva and Acyuta are especially mentioned.
