The meaning is that the three bodies, the physical body and the subtle body and the causal body are this. This is the iron city, the city on earth where in the gross physical body our real nature is Shiva, but we are imprisoned here. And there is an even worse city, the silver thing, not the balloon. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, our inner personality. Those are to us then our physical body also. Amazing, these stories. That's what Vivekananda means when he says, let these stories sweep through you like water. When the waters have receded, they'll leave a nugget of truth inside you, which is most valuable. I'll
Shiva Mahimna Stotra is a Sanskrit composition in the devotion to Shiva that is believed to have been composed by a Gandharva named Pushpadanta. It lists Shiva's various achievements and qualities. Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on these verses on the auspicious occasion of Shivaratri.