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Lord Shri Vishnu Sahasranama Part: 98

Posted by kathavarta on November 18, 2009

Stanza::97::
Araudrah kundali chakri vikramyurjita-shasanah
Shabdatigah shabdasahah sisirah sarvari-karah ..97

906. Araudrah: Action, attachment and anger these three are Raudra. The Lord is one whose desires are all accomplished, so He has no attachment or aversion. So He is free from theRaudras mentioned above.

“One who has none of the negative terrible urges and emotions.” The State of Perfection is a condition where the frailties of the mortal heart can never remain. The Lord is One in Whom the cruelties which rule the man of the world-likes, dislikes, hatredness, jealousy and his other imperfections-can never abide or even be contained.

907. Kundali: One who has taken the form of Adisesha.

“One Who wears the famous ear-ring called the Makara-Kundala.” The term Kundali also signifies the ‘Serpent’-hence the Kundalini-Sakti-the ‘Serpent-Power’-the coiled mystic-glory lying now inert, uninvoked at the base of the back-bone in the deep pelvic region. Here the ‘Serpent’ may be taken as the thousand- tongued Ananta on whom Sree Narayana is described as ever reclining in His Yoga-rest.

In all religions, ‘Serpent,’ it seems, symbolises the ‘mind.’ In Hinduism it is true. Whether it is in Krishna’s dance on the Kaaliyan-Serpent, or Siva wearing as ornaments the Serpents (Bhooshana), or Sree Hari resting upon Ananta-the idea is always the conquest of the mind, the poisonous serpent.

908. Chakri: One who sports in his hand the discus named Sudarshana, which is the category known as Manas, for the protection of all the worlds.

“He Who wears ever His Discus called Su-Darsana (Auspicious Vision).” The Lord destroys with the Discus only the foul and the low in us and the individual naturally gains the Experience Divine, the Self.

909. Vikrami: Vikrama means taking a stride, as also courage.

“He Who is more daring than all others.” The term is also interpreted: “One who travels by air,” as ‘Vi’ means Bird. Famous is the allegory that Lord Vishnu travels on the back of the white-necked Eagle.

910. Urjita-shasanah: One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely sublime nature.

“One who commands and administers with His Hand.” His commands in the scriptures advise us firmly what is right to do and what are the destructive forces in each one of us. In case man decides to disobey His Laws, He severely punishes him on all such occasions. Disobedience of Laws is immediately followed by His loving curative punishment. It permits no exceptions; accepts no excuses; admits no circumstantial conditions.

911. Shabdatigah: One who cannot be denoted by any sound because He has none of the characteristics, which could be grasped by sound.

“He who transcends all words”-One who is Indescribable. The Vedas themselves are but indications ‘pointing to Truth’ and are not explaining, describing or even defining Truth. The Infinite and the Eternal Truth is beyond even the Vedas, beyond all that can be gained through even the highest faculties of the finite equipments (mind and intellect).

912. Sabdasahah: One who is the purport of all Vedas.

“One who allows Him- self to be invoked by the Vedic declarations.” If, however, the Upanishadic declarations are properly reflected and sincerely meditated upon, even though the Vedas have failed to define Truth, their contemplative implications can transport us into the realms of the Infinite Experience-Divine.

913. Sisirah: One who is the shelter to those who are bruning in the three types of wordly fires – sufferings arising from material causes, psychological causes and spiritual causes.

The term means winter, the cold season. In India it is the cool season. Therefore, by suggestion, this name indicates that the Lord is the ‘cool arbour’ for those who are tortured by the heat of Sansar.

914. Sarvari-karah: For those in bondage, the Atman is like Sarvari (night) and for an enlightened one the state of samsara is like night (Sarvari). So the Lord is called the one who generates Sarvari or night for both the enlightened and the bound ones.

The word Sarvari means ‘night’ or ‘darkness’; therefore, the term defines the Lord as “One Who creates darkness.” To the men of realisation, our world of sorrows and pains, of strains and stresses, of worries and anxieties are unknown -while to those who live in their ego-sense, to them the Real is unknown. ! The unknown means ‘veiled in darkness.’ The subtle meaning is clear now.

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Lord Shri Vishnu Sahasranama Part: 97

Posted by kathavarta on November 18, 2009

Stanza::96::
Sanat sanatana-tamah kapilah kapir avyayah
Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah ..96

896. Sanat: The word Sanat indicates a great length of time. Time also is the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
“The Beginningless and the Endless factor is He.” Time cannot condition Him. He, the Consciousness, illumines the very concept of Time and Space. He was, is and shall ever be-He being Changeless, Immutable.

897. Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered eternal.
“The most Ancient.” It is from Him that the very intellect springs forth and thereafter one of the concepts of the intellect is Time. Therefore, He is the most’ Ancient,’ inasmuch as He was already there to be aware of even the first experience of the beginning of Time.

898. Kapilah: A subterranean fire in the ocean is Kapila, light red in colour.
The Lord Himself, manifested as the great Rishi Kapila, propounded the Sankhya philosophy. In the Gita, Bhagavan Sree Krishna declaring His own Glory, describes Himself: “I am Kapila among the great ones.”

899. Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun.
“One Who drinks water” -by one’s rays. The Sun it is that dries up everything, evaporating the water-content contained on the surface of the earth.

900. Avyayah: One in whom all the worlds get dissolved in Pralaya.
“The One in whom the entire Universe merges”-during the great deluge when the Total- mind-the Creator-rests. The Supreme Atman functioning through the Total-mind is the Creator, Brahmaaji-each mind being ruled by its own vaasanaas. The Total-vaasanaas in the Universe (Causal-Body) is Maya and the Supreme Self expressing through Maya (the Total-Causal-Body) is Ishvara. Therefore, Sree Narayana, as Ishvara, is the One into Whom the total world of experiences merges when the Total-mind rests during the ‘pause’ between two busy cycles of Creation and involvement in the projected world of thoughts-feelings-objects.

In the north this term is read as Avyayah where the meaning is clear: “Immutable”: and needs no explanation.

901. Svastidah: One who gives what is auspicious to devotees.
“One Who gives Svasti to all His sincere devotees.” A true devotee is one who has discovered his fulfilment in seeking and gaining the Infinite Bliss that is Sree Hari. Naturally, he comes to turn away from the realms of inauspiciousness. To the extent he is able to move into the Hari-Consciousness, he is to that degree in the Bliss- Experience. Therefore, the Lord is termed as the ‘Giver-of- Auspiciousness.

902. Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.
As in many earlier terms which were preceded by the suffix ‘ Krit,’ here also, it expands into two meanings: “One Who brings Auspiciousness” -or “One who robs all Auspiciousness.” To the seeker who is moving towards the Narayana-Consciousness, his experience is of added joy and peace in life, but the one who seeks only sense-gratification and so moves away from the Reality, to him the experience is more and more sorrow, agitations, tears and tragedies-total inauspiciousness. The indeclinable (Avyaya) Sanskrit word ‘Svasti’ means Auspiciousness.

903. Svasti: One whose auspicious form is characterized by supreme Bliss.
“One Who is the Source of all Auspiciousness” -as He is Himself the Auspicious. In essence His Nature is Sat-Chit-Aananda so there can be no cause for inauspiciousness therein. The individual functions within the powers of His avidyaa and so is under the infatuation of Maya, while the Lord rules over Maya and plays out through Maya.

904. Svastibhuk: One who enjoys the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of devotees.
“One who constantly lives in His Experience a perpetual sense of holy Auspiciousness”-as it is His very nature-divine. It can also be interpreted as “One Who showers Grace and makes His devotees constantly experience Auspiciousness in their loving Narayana- centred hearts.”

905. Svasti-dakshinah: One who augments as Svasti (auspiciousness).
Lord is ever engaged in smartly distributing Auspiciousness. The word ‘Dakshinaa’ has, apart from the meaning of ‘gift,’ also a meaning: “One who is efficient and quick.” Therefore, the term indicates that Sree Narayana quickly and efficiently will reach His sincere seekers to give them the experience of Auspiciousness which is the Lord’s very nature.

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