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air-allowing everything to remain in it and sustaining everything by it. (105)

Vasumanaah -One who has a mind which is Supremely Pure; meaning a mind that has

none of the sins of passions and pains; none of the storms of desires and

jealousies; none of the quakes of likes and dislikes. (106) Satyah -He is the

Real. The term Satyam used in philosophy has a special connotation. That which

remains the same in all the three periods of time is called Satyam. That which

seemingly exists, but which never was nor shall ever be, is considered as a

false delusion, A-satya. He who remains the same, before the creation, during

the existence and even after the dissolution, is the Infinite Truth, Satyah.

The Taittireeya Upanishad thunders that the Eternal Truth is “Truth, Knowledge,

Bliss”: “Satyam, Jnaanam, Anantam Brahma” - Taittireeya Upanishad: 2-1.

We may here mention a couple of other meanings that are generally given to

this term “The best among good people is Satyam. Again, the word Satyam is made

up of three sounds -Sat-ti-yam -and, herein, according to the Upanishad itself,

“Sat means praana, ti means food, Yam means sun;” therefore, Sat yam is the Law

which orders the food to sustain the praana when both are blessed by the sources

of all gross energies in the cosmos, the Sun. (107) Samaatmaa -He wbo is

equally in all. In Kathopanishad we read the declaration of Lord Death to

Nachiketas how the same Truth has come to express itself differently from form

to form. To visualize the Paramesvara who revels equally ill all, among the

perishables and imperishables, is the Vision Divine. Kauseshika Upanishad (3-9)

says, “One should understand that the Self is the same-in-all”. In the Geeta

also is the declaration “I am the Seer in all the

fields-of-experiences everywhere” -Geeta Ch. 13, St. 3). (108) Sammitah -The

term Sammatam means ‘acceptable’. The One. Truth, which has been proved and

accepted by the Rishis In the Upanishads through subtle logic and philosophical

reasoning, is called Sammatah. This is the most direct and very appealing

meaning. But there are some who would interpret this portion of the Thousand

Names of Lord Vishnu by combining Samaatmaa (107) and Sammitah (108) to form

together a single ‘Name’, wherein the compound word would read

Samaatma-asammitah. Here the term Asammitah then would come to mean “One who is

incomparable, Inimitable (Atulya) who has none to equal Him”. (109) Samah

-Equal; the same. Truth remains the same. One Infinite Reality plays the game

of plurality. As has been said in the Kathopanishad, “The One Principle of Fire

having entered this world burns itself out

differently according to the equipments upon which it is manifested”, so the One

Truth manifests as the many Jeevas. Hence He is called the Samah. Also it can

mean as One who is ever united, with (Sa) Lakshmi (Maa). (110) Amoghah

-Moghah means “useless fellow” (Nishphalah), “a disappointing power”. Amogha is

the opposite of it: “Ever Useful”, “Ever the Fulfiller” of all the wishes and

demands of His devotees. Chandogya Upanishad (8-1-5) declares: “Truthful is His

wish, and Truth is His resolve”. (111) Pundareekaakshah -One who can be

contacted and fully experienced in the Heart Space (Pundareekam). In the

Narayana Upanishad (10) we find the same term employed: “In the core of the

body, in the Heart Space, dwells the Supreme.” In the ‘Heart’, the meditator

can experience the Reality more readily and very clearly, and so the All-

Pervading Reality is described as

“dwelling in the Heart-cave”. (112) Vrishakarmaa -Vrisha means Dharma. One

whose every activity is righteous and who acts only to establish righteousness.

“For the sake of establishing Dharma, I am born in every age”, says Lord -(Geeta

Ch. 4, St. 8). (113) Vrishaakritih -One who is of the form (Aakriti) of Dharma

(Vrisha). It is not only that His actions are righteous but He is Himself

Righteousness. It can also mean as One who takes different forms during His

Divine Incarnations-all for maintaining the Rule of Dharma in the world.

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