SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 84 - kRta-karmA.

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SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 84 - kRta-karmA.

 

794. kRta-karmA – a) He Who practiced the acts He preached to the

asura-s, in order to convince them.

b) One Who has achieved all there is to achieve.

c) One Who keeps repeating the processes of creation

etc., with perfection

d) One Who has performed acts that no one else can

ever perform.

 

om kRta-karmaNe namah.

 

a) SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam is that bhagavAn played His role of

deception by following the practices that He preached to the asura-s,

to ensure that they believed in Him completely – svayam anushThita

tad-AcArah. SrI v.v. rAmAnujan comments that bhagavAn stressed the

motto "ahimsA paramo dharmah" to the exclusion of every other code,

and made sure that the asura-s rejected vedic sacrifices and such

other acts.

 

b) SrI Sa'nkara gives the interpretation that He has the nAma

because "He is One of fulfilled activities", that is, He has nothing

more to achieve – na kartavyam ki'ncidapi karma asya vidyata iti kRta-

karmA.

 

SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj refers us to gItA 3.22:

 

na me pArtha asti kartavyam trishu lokeshu ki'ncana |

na anavAptam avAptavyam varta eva ca karmaNi || (gItA

3.22)

 

"For Me, arjuna, there is nothing in all the three worlds that is

left yet to be done, nor is there anything unacquired that ought to

be still acquired. Yet I go on working."

 

c) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives the interpretation that the nAma

signifies that bhagavAn is "One Who keeps repeating the process of

creation, protection, and destruction in cycles – One Who keeps doing

these actions again and again" – kRtameva jal-lakshaNam karma punah

punah karoti. He gives the Rg vedic mantra "yathA pUrvam akalpayat"

(Rg. 10.190.3) – "He created everything as before", in support.

 

d) SrI vAsishTha gives an alternate interpretation as well – He Who

performs the work that no one else can do" – anyaih kartum anarham

bahubhirapi yat karma, tat karoti iti kRta-karmA. He gives the

example of the function of the sun appearing and setting unendingly

every day from the beginning of the world, and continuing till the

end of the world. This process of creation is something that no one

else do, with perfection, over and over again.

 

SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshaN, a follower of the caitanya tradition, has

the anubhavam of the nAma in terms of the many acts of kRshNa that

are in the category of "No one else can do" – the slaying of

narakAsura, the liberation of the 16000 rAja kumAri-s who had been

imprisoned by him, the fetching of pArijAta tree for satyabhAmA, the

victory over rudra in the battle with bANAsura, the freeing of

aniruddha and usha, etc.

 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan