Lord Shri Vishnu Sahasranama Part: 72
Posted by kathavarta on November 5, 2009
Stanza::71::
Brahmanyo brahmakrud-brahma brahma brahma-vivardhanah
Brahmavid brahmano brahmi brahmgno brahmana-priyah ..71
661. Brahmanyo: The Vedas, Brahmanas and knowledge are indicated by the word Brahma. As the Lord promotes these, He is called Brahmanya.
One who is a great friend of Brahman. The term Brahman includes in its connotation the Shashtra, Tapas, Vedas, Truth, Knowledge, etc. Sree Narayana is a protector and friend of all these. Here Brahman means Jeeva-a friend of all individuals.
662. Brahmakrud: One who performs Brahma or Tapas (austerity).
The One Who performs the Brahman-meaning the one who lives in Truth, who abides in Tapas, etc. He is the author of Brahman as enumerated in the explanation of the preceding term.
663. Brahma: One who creates everything as the creator Brahma.
“Creator.” As the total Creative- power, it is Narayana Who functions as Creator through Brahmnaji.
664. Brahma: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahma. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
“The Biggest, the Vastest, the An- Pervading.” Upanishads thunderingly declare the Brahman to be “Existence-Knowledge Infinite.” The Knowledge which lifts all false perceptions of differences, pure in all its aspects, ever beyond the grasp of the senses, and that which can be experienced only in one’s own Self, is called Brahman.”
665. Brahma-vivardhanah: One who promotes Tapas (austerity) etc.
“One who increases the Brahman.” Here, of course, the term Brahman means “Austerities, Vedas, Truth, Knowledge.” These are increased in one who has earned the Grace of Sree Narayana through total surrender and constant devotion.
666. Brahmavid: One who knows the Vedas and their real meaning.
“One Who knows Brahman.” The meaning here is one who has intuited the Vedas and their full commentaries. In Gita (XV) we listen to the Lord declaring that: “I alone am the Author of the Vedas and the Knower of the Vedas.” Brahman alone can “know” Brahman just as the “dreamer” can never survive to know the “waker.” The knower-of-the-waker is the “Waker” alone. Similarly, the individualised ego conditioned by the equipments of Body, Mind and Intellect experiences the Brahman only when it has transcended the entanglements of matter-and then the ego is no more a Jeeva but “becomes Brahman.” Thus the Higher is experienced only by the Higher. Sree Narayana is the Brahman-and therefore, He alone is the Knower of Brahman.
667. Brahmano: One who, in the form of Brahman, instructs the whole world, saying, ‘It is commanded so and so in the Veda’.
One who has realised that the pluralistic world is a mere superimposition upon the Brahman caused by an error of judgement, and who experiences the Supreme Consciousness of the One Reality is a Braahmanah. His duty is to convey this knowledge to others with a pure missionary zeal and a higher proselytising enthusiasm. By mere accident of birth one does not become a Braahmanah. Visvamitra and others through their Tapas and Divine Experience had reached the status of Brahmin-hood, so we read in the Puranas. Narayana manifests as such mighty men of realisation, serving their generations through their teachings.
668. Brahmi: One in whom is established such entities as Tapas, Veda, mind, Prana etc. which are parts of Brahma and which are also called Brahma.
“One Who is with Brahma.” The term Brahma meaning as before –“Austerities, Vedas, Truth and Knowledge-divine.”
669. Brahmgno: One who lives ever in Brahman, and so “knows” the nature of the Brahman.
He, the Lord, being the very Brahman, no one knows His nature as He Himself can. The “waker” alone knows the waking- the “dreamer” and “sleeper” can never realise and experience the waking-state until they “become” the “waker.”
670. Brahmanapriyah: One to whom holy men are devoted.
One who is the beloved or and One Who is the lover of true men of full realisation, the Brahmans. Not the caste, but the men of supreme experience-divine. The Lord is dear to them, and they too are dear to Him.
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