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Hiranyaretaa: One whose seed is golden. The Lord's body is Consciousness. It is not matter, like ours. Hence his seed is also described golden. The Lord is the prime source of creation. He is that from which everything arose and hence he is called hiranyaretaa.

suvar\u1e47a-ret\u0101\u1e25 = Of gold semen. At the beginning of creation (of the universe), the seminal energy of the Lord took the shape of a gold egg. The Sk\u0101nda-Pur\u0101na describes it as the \u2018creation of the gold egg (brahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da)\u2019.

\u0101pa eva sasarj\u0101gre t\u0101su v\u012bryam-av\u0101s\u1e5bjat, tada\u1e47\u1e0damabhavaddhaima\u1e41 sahasr\u0101\xf1\u015bu samaprabham.

He first created water and put His semen in that water. It became a gold egg which had a radiance equal to that of the sun, the thousand-rayed. Manu-Sm\u1e5bti also narrates the same subject.

\u0101pa eva sasarj\u0101dau t\u0101su b\u012bjam-av\u0101s\u1e5bjat. t
ada\u1e47\u1e0damabhavaddhaima\u1e41 sahasr\u0101\xf1\u015bu-samaprabham. MS 1.8,9

The Ch\u0101ndogya Upani\u1e63ad praises the Supreme Lord as being made of gold in every bit of His being.
\u0101pranakh\u0101t sarva eva suvar\u1e47a\u1e25.

\u2018Made of gold\u2019 here of course means, \u2018of the nature of light\u2019 for it is inconceivable to have God as a modification (of the element/metal) gold.

The word hiranya means hitam and ramyam One which is hitam means that which is benificial to us( i.e . ) good for us. Ramyam means pleasant. The source of creation is both good for us and pleasant to us . The Lord made the world good and pleasant . The nature, the elements etc. are for our own good.

Lord Shiva is contemplated upon in the centre of the surya mandala (planet sun) is also called hiranya retaa as He is fully golden.

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