Shloka 45
Śatarudrīya-prabhāva and Rudra’s Supremacy (शतरुद्रीयप्रभावः)
तस्य चाक्ष्णो महत् तेजो येनायं मथितो गिरि: । त्वत्प्रियार्थ च मे देवि प्रकृतिस्थ: पुनः कृत:
tasya cākṣṇo mahat tejo yenāyaṁ mathito giriḥ | tvatpriyārthaṁ ca me devi prakṛtisthaḥ punaḥ kṛtaḥ ||
“正是那只眼——第三眼——的伟大光焰，使此山被搅动而震荡。女神啊，为了你、为取悦你，我又使群山之王喜马梵复归其本然安定之态。”
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Immense power is not merely destructive; it is ethically completed by restoration and restraint. Śiva’s act shows that divine might, when guided by devotion and concern for order, both disrupts and then re-establishes balance.
Maheśvara explains that the tremendous radiance from his eye shook/churned the mountain, but then—out of regard for the Goddess—he returned the mountain (Himavān) to its normal, natural state.