Slokam 10

The three worlds with its inhabitants, have been created.

Sri Bhattadri points out that the creation has been accomplished only out of the lotus and the waters of the surrounding ocean and nothing else.

To recall from a prior slokam, when the lotus emerged from the navel of the Paramathma, the creations from the previous kalpa that had been absorbed into the Paramathma at the time of the pralayam, were released in their minutest form into the lotus.  So all the essentials for the creation were taken into the Paramathma and released at re-creation.

The minute forms of the ingredients were picked up by Brahma and coalesced into the universe, and the three worlds and their habitants. 

The protective shield for the new habitants of the three worlds is the glance of the Paramthma that is filled with unabating mercy. 

The unabating mercy of the Paramathma for all creations is the sustainer of pure consciousness in all beings. 

Without this merciful glance, the winds of conflict that sweep the three worlds would blow us away like dust.

We should be blessed to invoke,  and more importantly, accept that merciful glance, by a display of consistency in devotion and tyagam or sacrifice.

The world is full of destructive forces, assuming many forms shapes and sizes, perceptible and invisible.  Without the shield of the protective glance which is granted on meditative invocation,  our fallibility would be exposed and exploited.

The invocation of the glance is driven by the need for protection, indicating that we have not advanced to a point where our consciousness requires a need to invoke the Paramathma. Otherwise, in our preoccupation with our worldly lives,  we would likely ignore him.

If we live in a world full of physical and emotional dangers, it is because we would not consciously perform tapas to invoke his protective presence within us. It should be an indicator to us,   that whether or not we perceive danger or feel insecure, our consciousness should never veer away from invoking His Glance and hold it eternally. This invocation should not be driven by fear or even more importantly, by a need.  A causeless invocation is the indicator of the ultimate form of devotion.  If we reach that state, we are freed from the shackles of birth and death.

Let our awareness of this protective shield never be allowed to slip from our consciousness.