SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 69 - nAma-s trilokAtmA, tri-lokeSah.

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SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 69 - Part 2.

 

652. tri-lokAtmA - a) He who ever moves about in the three worlds.

b) He Who makes the three worlds move about.

c) He Who is the AtmA for everything in all the three worlds.

 

Om tri-lokAtmane namah.

 

a) SrI BhaTTar gives his interpretation based on the derivation of the

word "AtmA" from the root ata - to be always moving about (ata

sAtatyagamane) - trIn lokAn atati satatam gacchati. SrI v.v.

rAmAnujan gives reference to tiruvAimozhi, where nammAzhvAr beautifully

expresses this concept - "viN mIdiruppAi! malai mEl niRpAi! KaDal

SerppAi! maN mIduzhalvAi! ivaRRuL e'ngum maRainduRaivAi! eN mIdiyanRa

puRavaNDattAi!.. (6.9.5). He keeps moving about in all the three

worlds in order to be easily accessible to everyone.

 

b) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha extends this anubhavam to point out that not

only does He move about in the three worlds, but He is the One who

makes everything move about in all the three worlds - avan anRi Or

aNuvum aSaiyAdu. So He is tri-lokAtmA in this sense as well.

 

c) SrI Sankara gives the interpretation that He is the AtmA of

everything in all the three worlds - trayANAm lokAnAm antaryAmitayA

AtmA iti tri-lokAtmA. The three worlds here refer to the earth, the

world above and the world below. SrI cinmayAnanda interprets the term

tri-loka to refer to the three states of experience - the waking, the

dream and the deep-sleep, and gives the interpretation that He is the

Reality, the Self of the all the three worlds of experiences.

 

Thus, He is called tri-lokAtmA because He moves about in the three

worlds, He is the antaryAmi of everything in the three worlds, and He

makes everything in the three worlds move about.

 

653. tri-lokeSah - The Ruler of the three worlds.

 

Om tri-lokeSAya namah.

 

tri-lokAnAm ISatayA tri-lokeSah - By virtue of His being the Lord or

Ruler of the three worlds, He is known as tri-lokeSah. NammAzhvAr's

well-known pASuram "agalagillEn" refers to Him as as "ulagam mUnRu

uDaiyAi (tiruvAimozhi 6.10.10). SrI Sankara elaborates His Rulership

thus - trayo lokAh tadA~jnayA sveshu sveshu karmasu vartanta iti

tri-lokeSah - The three worlds, in obedience to Him, attend to their

respective functions. SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives support from the

Sruti-s - esha loka pAla esha lokeSah (kaushItakI 3).

 

-To be continued.

 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

 

 

 

 

 

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