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VISHNU SAHASRANAAM (217) Vaachaspatir-Udaaradheeh -Vaachaspati is a term given to One who is eloquent in cham” pioning the Supreme law of life; and Dheeh means the power of intelligence; and Udaaradheeh one who has a “Large- hearted intelligence”, One who is not puritanical in his view points. God is not only the Declarer of the Law but He has a large-hearted tolerance to appreciate the weakness of the devotee’s heart, suffering under the delusion of Maayaa, and hence, has a great sympathy for the weakness in us This is expressed in God’s Infinite kindness towards sinners in general. The
laws of spiritual living can be disobeyed for a long time without any
tyrannical onslaught, unlike the law of physical nature, which is blind
and uncompromising. Fire knows no mercy. But Narayana, the Great Vishnu,
is kind and considerate the while He expresses the Truth of Life
eloquently at all times around us. In His Large-heartedness, He has enough
paternal kindness to overlook our trespasses.
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agraneer-graamaneeh
sreemaan nyaayo netaa sameeranah (218)
Agraneeh -One
wh0 guides us to the end -the peak. Also the One, wh0 leads (Agra) the
entire pilgrim- age-the Guide. He moves ahead and following His footsteps,
keeping Him in our gaze, faithfully following Him, we shall reach the Goal
and thus He is called as the leader, Vishnu. (219)
Graamaneeh -One
who controls, guides and leads the “Collection”, the “flock” (Graama). In
Sanskrit Graama means “a collection of many number of things”.
(220)
Sreemaan -Sree
means Light, Effulgence or glory. Consciousness has all these three, and
therefore, Sreemaan means the Self, the Lord.
(221)
Nyaayah -The
word in its direct meaning is “Justice”. In the spiritual world, it
connotes logical arguments (Tarka) and lines of contemplation (Yukti),
which help us in arriving at the absolute experience indicated in the
Sruti, are together called Nyaaya. (222)
Netaa -the
leader-one who protects, nurtures, nourishes and guides all living
creatures in the world. One who is being the Superintendent of the
machinery of life -(“Jagat-Yantra Nirvaahakah”)-Sankara.
(223)
Sameeranah -One
who efficiently administers all movements of all living creatures. In the
physical body, all physiological activities are controlled by the five
‘Praanaas’ and thus in the form of ‘Praanaas’ He who governs all movements
of all living creatures in the universe is Maha Vishnu.
(224)
Sahasria-Moordhaa -One
who has endless number of heads. All living creatures are His
manifestations and He Himself is the One who has become the many.
Therefore all heads are His, just as in a factory the proprietor considers
all the employees as his own ‘hands’. Here the term Sahasra means
innumerable. (225)
Visvaatmaa -The
very Soul of the universe; the very inner Essence in all living creatures.
(226)
Sahasraakshah -In
describing the macro- cosmic form of the Lord we have an endorsement of
this declaration in the Bhagavad Geeta. 227.
Sahasrapaat -In
the Purushasookta of the Rig-Veda, the same terms are used in describing
the Infinite Form of the Mighty Truth: (“The Purusha is thousand-headed,
thousand-eyed, and thousand-footed.”) The
“many heads” (224), “many eyes” (226), “many legs”
(227),
together indicate that, through all these equipments of thinking (head),
of action (leg) and of perception (eyes), the Thinker, the Doer and the
Seer, the One Infinite Consciousness expresses everywhere, in all forms,
at all times, and He is Lord Vishnu. Stanza
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aavartano
nivrittaatmaa (228)
Aavartanah -One
who is the Unseen Dynamism behind the ever-whirling wheel-of time upon
which play the endless drama of birth and death. The repetition
(Aavartanam) of these changes is the experience of Samsaar, and the One
mighty Lord, in whose presence alone the factors of matter start their
thrilled dance of decay, is indicated here (Aavartanah) as “the Great
Power behind the continuity of change in the world of phenomena”. In the
Geeta, Bhagavan says, “O Arjuna, the Lord dwells in the heart of all, and
spins, through His Maayaa, all layers of personal ties as though the
universe is a complicated machinery.” (229)
Nivrittaatmaa -The
pure Self, which has retreated totally (Nivritta) from all Its
identifications with matter. In short, Maha Vishnu is the Pure Self, ever
Immaculate and totally Free from all the sorrows of the constant
modifications taking place apparently in the Prakriti.
(230)
Samvritah -One
who is completely veiled from the recognition of the
“Perceiving-feeling-thinking entity”, the ego (Jeeva) .The Self is veiled
away from direct experience of all Jeevas. This intellectual state of
non-apprehension (Aavarana) creates the agitation (Vikshepa) which is the
cause for the misapprehensions of Truth as the sad and sorrowful world of
imperfections. Thus veiled, lies the Truth today to the seeker, and that
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