OF WEAPONS, I AM THE THUNDERBOLT — The weapon called ‘Vajra’ is an item in the divine artillery which can never be shattered. The Vedic legend explains how a great seer, Dadheechi, offered his own rib-bone for the construction of this secret weapon to annihilate a demon who was threatening to shatter the peace of the heavens.

OF COWS I AM KAMADHUK — This strange animal called Kamadhuk, from which we can milk all our desires, whatever they be, is also one of the early by-products that rose up during the churning of the Milky-Ocean.

OF ALL THE CAUSES OF OFFSPRING, I AM KANDARPA — Cupid, the good of love of the Indian concept, is conceived of as a mischievous boy, chubby and lively, ever carrying with himself his bow-of-smile, with five flower-tipped arrows, each meant to smother one sense-organ!! The suggestion is a biological truth. Procreation is not merely an animal act of insemination, or a vegetable-act of cross-pollination, but it is, according to the Science of Sex (Kama-shastra) in India, a fulfilment of all passionate urges that express themselves through all the sense organs. A philosopher is a perfect scientist and as such he has none of the false shyness, which is generally expressed by immoral people when they pose themselves as sandal-coated puritans. Vedantins and teachers, when they talk of sex-life, are as much brutally open as the professors are in a medical college.

Of all the causes of offspring, the Lord declares, “I AM CUPID,” who in himself, as the lord of love, represents, in the field of sensuality, the total satisfaction of the physical, mental and intellectual sheaths in man.

OF SNAKES, I AM VASUKI — The serpent ‘Vasuki,’ is described in our mythology as ever living on Shiva’s ring-finger, as an adornment. Though small enough to become a ring on the finger of the Lord, it was the ‘Vasuki’ Serpent, who volunteered to serve as a rope in the churning process of the “milky-ocean.” This naturally reminds one of the Upanishadic declarations, that the Truth is at once the “minutest of the minute,” and “the greatest of the great.” Naturally, it is very apt that the Lord declares Himself to be “Vasuki among the snakes.” The term ‘Sarpa’ is to be rightly understood, in contrast with the Nagas, mentioned in the next stanza. Sarpas are single-hooded; while Nagas are multi-hooded.

CONTINUING IN THE TUNE, THE SINGER-DIVINE SINGS OF HIS OWN SONGFUL GLORY:

Ayudhanam, among weapons; I am the vajram, thunderbolt, made of the bones of (the sage) Dadhici. Dhenunam, among milch cows; I am kama-dhuk, Kamadhenu, which was the yielder of all desires of (the sage) Vasistha; or it means a cow in general which gives milk at all times. I am Kandarpa, prajanah, the Progenitor, (the god) Kama (Cupid). Sarpanam, among serpents, among the various serpents, I am Vasuki, the kind of serpents.