[Advaita-l] Bhagavatam says Shiva is 'Trilokaika Guru'

[V Subrahmanian]

In the Bhagavatam there is a stuti by Markandeya addressed to Shiva-Parvati
who appear before him pleased with his tapas.  Reporting the event, Sūta
says:

श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः १२/अध्यायः १०

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नेत्रे उन्मील्य ददृशे सगणं सोमयाऽऽगतम् ।
*रुद्रं त्रिलोकैकगुरुं* ननाम शिरसा मुनिः ॥ १४ ॥

Opening his eyes, the sage saw Lord Rudra, *the One spiritual master of the
three worlds,* together with Umā and Rudra’s followers. Mārkaṇḍeya then
offered his respectful obeisance by bowing his head.

Although the above Vedabase translation says so, from the context it means
the Father, the Creator/Lord of the three worlds.

In the Daksha Yajna episode too, when Brahma, etc. go to Shiva's abode, the
description there says: He is Jagadguru. In this context the word means:
spiritual preceptor, teacher, like in the case of Jagadguru Shankaracharya.
Rudra is seen to be imparting the Para Tattva Jnanam to the exalted Rshis
sitting in front of him.

That Krishna is Jagadguru, so also Brahma is well known. But the Bhagavatam
saying the above is what is noteworthy. In the Bhagavatam 3.12.8 itself,
Rudra, upon being created by Brahma, for furthering the creation process,
addresses Brahma as Jagadguru:

नामानि कुरु मे धातः स्थानानि च जगद्‍गुरो ॥ ८ (Father, Creator.)

*Monier Williams Cologne *

जगद्—गुरु m. the father of the world, Ragh. x, 65

Brahmā, BhP. ii, 5, 12

Viṣṇu, Hariv. 15699

BhP. i, 8, 25

Śiva, Kum. vi, 15

Rāma (as Viṣṇu's incarnation), R. iii, 6, 18.

regards
subbu