Stanza::65::
Shridah shrishah shrinivasah shrinidhih shri-vibhavanah
Shridharah shrikarah shreyah shriman loka-trayashrayah ..65

(605) Shridah: One who bestows prosperity on devotees.
One who gives Sree to all His sincere and dedicated devotees. Narayana provides wealth, for all His ardent devotees. He is the River of Knowledge and Joy for all devoted hearts which are surrendered to Him.

(606) Shrishah: One who is Lord of the Goddess Shri.
The Lord of the Goddess of Wealth, Sree-Mahalakshmi. Her wealth is ‘the ability to nourish.’ Thus She gives to the striving devotee, the mighty and noble virtues, his inner wealth.

(607) Shrinivasah: Shri here denotes men with Shri, that is, virtue and power. He who dwells in such men is Shrinivasa.
One who dwells and manifests in the good people. Here the word Sree is to be understood as “those who have Sree in them.” The One Who abides in purified hearts-wherein the passions and lusts have been removed and peace, joy, devotion and understanding have arrived. In such people the Self comes to shine all by Itself.

(608) Shrinidhih: One who is the seat of all Shri, that is, virtues and powers.
One Who is the treasure- house (Nidhih) of Sree. Vishnu, being the All-Full and Perfect, all glories draw themselves from Him alone. Even Sree-Maayaa –can play Her games only when She draws Her vitality from Narayana, the Self.

(609) Shri-vibhavanah: One who grants every form of prosperity and virtue according to their Karma.
“One Who is a Distributor of Sree.” Vishnu provides each, according to his merit, the wealth, both inner and outer. Sree Narayana is the Law behind actions and so He is the Dispenser of the fruits- of-actions.

(610) Shridharah: One who bears on His chest Shri who is the mother of all.
Lord always carries Sree in His bosom. In short, Atman, the Self, is never divorced from Its omnipotence and All-Fullness.

(611) Shrikarah: One who makes devotees – those who praise, think about Him and worship Him- into virtuous and powerful beings.
One Who confers Sree upon His devotees who remember Him continuously, reflect upon His nature and meditate upon His Glories.

(612) Shreyah: ‘Shreyas’ means the attainment of what is un-decaying good and happiness. Such a state is the nature of the Lord.
Narayana is Moksha-Liberation. He is the Way and the Goal. He gives to His devotees the total liberation from all their physical passions, emotional agitations and intellectual restlessnesses.

(613) Shriman: One in whom there are all forms of Shri that is power, virtue, beauty etc.
One Who possesses all Glories, Riches, Capacities and Beauties. He who is the owner of all Sree; the abode of all Its Splendour.

(614) Loka-trayashrayah: One who is the support of all the three worlds.
The Shelter for the three worlds. The Substratum for the three worlds-of-experiences (waking, dream and deep-sleep). If the Self, the Consciousness, were not in us, no experience would ever be ours, Lord Narayan is this “objectless awareness.”

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Stanza::64::
Anivarti nivrutatma samkshepta kshema-kruchivah
Shrivasta-vakshah shrivasah shripatih shrimatam-varah ..64

(596) Anivarti: One who never retreats in the battle with Asuras. Or one who, being devoted to Dharma, never abandons it.
“One who never knows retreat.” During the clashes between the Good (Devas) and the Bad (Asuras), Narayana never retreats. He is One Who never turns back from Dharma; for He is its friend and protector.

(597) Nivrutatma: One whose mind is naturally withdrawn from the objects of senses.
One who is fully restrained from all sense indulgences. So long as the equipments of our experiences-the Body, Mind and Intellect-are roaming about in their pleasures-among objects, emotions and thoughts-our attention is dissipated and is not available for the contemplation of the Higher, the Self. Narayana is the Atman in all, and to reach Him we have to retire from the fields of our indulgences. Hence, He is indicated as the “Restrained-Self.”

(598) Samkshepta: One who at the time of cosmic dissolution contracts the expansive universe into a subtle state.
The One who absorbs unto Himself the entire universe of multiplicity during the dissolution-the “Involver.” Narayana presides over not only the evolution but also is the controller at the involution. In some readings, we find this term as “ Asamksheptaa”-meaning “One who never abandons His devotees.”

(599) Kshema-krut: One who gives Kshema or protection to those that go to him.
“The doer of Good”; One who protects and guides the devotees. “Kshema” signifies protecting what has been gained, and it includes “ Yoga” also, meaning “acquiring things not yet gained.” In Geeta, Lord Krishna promises that “I shall govern both your’ Yoga’ and ‘Kshema’ when you are a true devotee.”

(600) Chivah: One who purifies everyone by the very utterance of His name.
Lord Narayana is adored here as Sivah and, at the same time, all Vaishnavites repeat Vishnu- sahasranaama. Human prejudices have no logic or reason. Sri Narayana is Siva (auspiciousness) and there is no difference between the two. “I am the dweller of Vaikuntha, Vishnu. Between us there is no difference,” so says Lord Siva Himself. Vishnu is the “Purifier” (Siva), as His names, when chanted, and His form-divine, when meditated upon, become a means of quietening the mind and sharpening our perceptions of the subtler and the transcendental.

(601) Shrivasta vakshah: One on whose chest there is a mark called Shrivasta.
One who has the mark, Sreevatsa, upon His divine and sacred chest.

(602) Shrivasah: One on whose chest Shridevi always dwells.
The Abode of Sree; the dwelling place of Mother Lakshmi. This term is dissolved as “Sree”-all glory and riches-ever dwell in His bosom of love and beauty.

(603) Shripatih: One whom at the time of the churning of the Milk ocean Shridevi chose as her consort, rejecting all other Devas and Asuras. Or Shri mean supreme Cosmic Power. The Lord is the master of that Power.
The Lord of Goddess Lakshmi. During the great churning of the Ocean of Milk, holding a lotus in hand, there rose Lakshmi from it, and She chose, among all gods, Lord Vishnu as Her Beloved Husband. Hence Narayana is Sree-Patih, the Lord of Sree. The Svetasvatara upanishad says: “The Supreme Sakti of Him is declared to be various.” Sree represents the Energy (Paraa Sakti) in the universe. Lord Narayana is the One Vital Truth that functions through the Paraa Sakti and gives Her the dynamism to act and to accomplish.

(604) Shrimatam-varah: One who is supreme over all deities like Brahma who are endowed with power and wealth of the Vedas.
The best among those who have glory-in-life, (Sree), is Narayana. Taittireeya Braahmana says, “The Rig, Yajus and Saaman are the imperishable wealth of the wise”, so Sree has been interpreted here to mean the Vedas. Lord Narayana is the One who is the Best among those who know the ‘Books’; He being the very Infinite Reality that is the one theme of all the Vedas. Also Varah can mean “One Who blesses” and thus the term under discussion yields the meaning, “Vishnu, Who is the Lord That blesses all great students of the Vedas.”

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