nīlaḥ pataṅgo harito lohitākṣas taḍidgarbha ṛtavaḥ samudrāḥ | anādimāṃs tvaṃ vibhutvena vartase yato jātāni bhuvanāni viśvā ||
"You are the dark-blue bird and the green parrot with red eyes; you are the cloud that holds lightning in its womb, the seasons, and the seas. Beginningless, you abide through your own all-pervading nature, you from whom all the worlds are born."
What This Means:
This verse keeps doing what the one before it started: pointing at all the different things in the world and saying, "That, too, is you." The blue bird, the green parrot, the storm cloud full of lightning, the turning seasons, the wide oceans, all of it is the same one Divine wearing countless faces. And because that Divine has no beginning and fills everything, every world that exists has come out of it.
Going Deeper:
By naming the Divine as creatures, cloud, seasons, and seas while also calling it beginningless and all-pervading, the verse holds together immanence and transcendence: the one reality is not hidden behind the world but is the very being of each form, the source from which all worlds are born.
How To Apply This:
When you notice a bird, a passing storm, or the change of seasons, let it remind you that the same one presence is shining through every shape you meet.
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