VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM [Part 5 of 5] -Concluding part

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horns with colours white, red, yellow and black.Chaturbahus: One with four arms,

as Vasudeva is always described.Chaturvyuhas: One having four

manifestations.Chatur-gatih: One who is sought as the end by the four Orders of

life and four Varnas ordained by the scriptures.Chaturatma: One whose self is

specially endowed with puissance, because it is without any attachment,

antagonism etc. Chaturbhavas: One from whom has originated the four human

values – Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.Chaturvedavid: One who understands the

true meaning of the four Vedas.Ekapat: One with a single Pada, part or leg. Or

one with a single foot or manifestation. Samavarto anivrutatma durjayo

duratikramahDurlabho durgamo durgo duravaso durariha...83 Samavarto: One who

effectively whirls the wheel of Samsara.Anivrutatma: One who is not Nivruta

(separated from) anything or anywhere, because He is all-pervading. Durjayo:

One who cannot be conquered.Duratikramah: One out of fear of whom, even

heavenly objects like sun do not dare to oppose His command.Durlabho: One who

can be attained by Bhakti, which is difficult for a person to be endowed

with.Durgamo: One whom it is difficult to attain.Durgo: One the attainment of

whom is rendered difficult by various obstructions.Duravaso: He whom the Yogis

with very great difficulty bring to reside in their hearts in Samadhi.Durariha:

One who destroys beings like Asuras. Shubhango lokasarangah sutantus

tantu-vardhanahIndrakarma mahakarma krutakarma krutagamah ..84 Shubhango: One

whose form is very auspicious to meditate upon.Lokasarangah: One who like the

Saranga (honey-beetle) grasps the essence of the world.Sutantus: As this

universe of infinite extension belongs to Him, the Lord is called

Sutantu.Tantu-vardhanah: One who can augment or contract the web of this

world.Indrakarma: One whose actions are like that of Indra, that is, are of a

highly commendable nature.Mahakarma: One of whom the great elements like Akasha

are effects.Krutakarma: One who has fulfilled everything and has nothing more to

accomplish.Krutagamah: One who has given out the Agama in the shape of the Veda.

Udbhavah sundarah sundo ratnanabhah sulochanah Arko vajasanah shrungi jayantah

sarva-vij-jayi ..85 Udbhavah: One who

assumes great and noble embodiments out of His own will.Sundarah: One who has a

graceful attractiveness that surprises everyone.Sundo: One who is noted for

extreme tenderness (Undanam). Ratnanabhah: Ratna indicates beauty; so one whose

navel is very beautiful.Sulochanah: One who has brilliant eyes, that is,

knowledge of everything.Arko: One who is being worshipped even by beings like

Brahma who are themselves objects of worship.Vajasanah: One who gives Vajam

(food) to those who entreat Him.Shrungi: One who at the time of Pralaya (cosmic

dissolution) assumed the form of a fish having prominent antenna.Jayantah: One

who conquers enemies easily.Sarva-vij-jayi: The Lord is ‘Sarvavit’ as He has

knowledge of everything. He is ‘Jayi’ because He is the conqueror of all the

inner forces like attachment, anger etc., as also of external foes like

Hiranyaksha.

line-break"> Suvarna-bindur-akshobhyah sarva-vagishvareshvarahMahahrado

maha-garto maha-bhuto maha-nidhih ..86 Suvarna-bindur: One whose ‘Bindus’ that

is, limbs, are euaql to gold in brilliance.Akshobhyah: One who is never

perturbed by passions like attachment and aversion, by objects of the senses

like sound, taste, etc., and by Asuras the antagonists of the

Devas.Sarva-vagishvareshvarah: One who is the master of all masters of

learning, including Brahma.Mahahrado: He is called a great Hrada (lake),

because being the paramatman who is of

the nature of Bliss, the Yogis who contemplate upon Him dip themselves in that

lake of Bliss and attain to great joy.Maha-garto: One whose Maya is difficult

to cross like a ddp pit.Maha-bhuto: One who is not divided by the three periods

of time – past, present and future.Mahanidhih: One in whom all the great

elements have their support. He is Mahan or a great one and ‘Nidhi’, the most

precious one. Kumudah kundarah kundah parjanyah pavano anilahAmrutasho

amrutavapuh sarvagyah sarvato-mukha ..87

10.0pt">Kumudah: ‘Ku’ means earth; one who gives joy (muda) to the earth by

freeing it of its burdens is Kumuda.Kundarah: One who offers blessings as pure

as Kunda or jasmine. Kundah: One who has limbs as beautiful as Kunda or

Jasmine.Parjanyah: The word means cloud. One who resembles the cloud in

extinguishing the three Tapas (heats, that is, miseries) arising from

psychological, material and spiritual causes. Or one who rains all desires like

a cloud.Pavano: One by merely remembering whom a devotee attains purity.Anilah:

‘Ilanam’ means inducement. One who is without any inducement is Anila. Ilana

also means sleep. So one who sleeps not or is ever awake is Anila. Amrutasho:

One who consumes Amruta or immortal bliss, which is His own nature.Amrutavapuh:

One whose form is deathless, that is, undecaying.Sarvagyah: One who is

all-knowing. Sarvatomukhah: One who has faces everywhere. Sulabhah suvratah

siddhah shatru-jit shatru-tapanahNyagrodho adumbaro-svatthas

chanurandhra-nishudhanah ..88 Sulabhah: One who is attained easily by offering

trifles like leaf, flower, and fruits etc. with devotion.Suvratah: ‘Vratati’

means enjoys. So, one who enjoys pure offerings. It can also mean one who is a

non-enjoyer, that is, a mere witness.Siddhah: One whose objects are always

attained, that is, omnipotent and unobstructed by any other

will.Shatru-jit: Conqueror of all forces of evil.Shatru-tapanah: One who

destroys the enemies of the Devas.Nyagrodho: That which remains above all and

grows downward. That is, He is the source of everything that is

manifest.Adumabaro: One who as the Supreme cause is ‘above the sky’, that is,

superior to all.Asvatthas: That which does not last even for the next

day.Chanurandhra nishudhanah: One who destroyed a valiant fighter Chanura

belonging to the race of Andhra. Sahasrarchi sapta-jihvah saptaidhah

sapta-vahanahAmurtir anagho achintyo bhayakrud bhaya-nashanah ..89

line-break"> Sahasrarchi: One with innumerable Archis or rays.Sapta-jihvah: The

Lord in his manifestation as Fire is conceived as having seven tongues of

flame.Saptaidhah: The Lord who is of the nature of fire has seven Edhas or

forms of brilliance. Sapta-vahanah: The Lord in the form of Surya or sun has

seven horses as his vehicles or mounts.Amurtir: One who is without sins or

without sorrow.Achintyo: One who is not determinable by any criteria of

knowledge, being Himself the witnessing Self- certifying all knowledge.

Bhayakrud: One who generates fear in those who go along the evil path. Or one

who cuts at the root of all fear.Bhaya-nashanah: One who destroys the fears of

the virtuous.

line-break"> Anur bruhat krusah sthulo gunabrun nirguno mahan Adhrutah

svadhrutah svasyah pragvamsho vamshavardhanah ..90 Anur: One who is extremely

subtle. Bruhat: The huge and mighty. Krusah: One who is non-material. Sthulo:

Being the inner pervader of all, He is figuratively described as Stula or

huge.Gunabrun: The support of the Gunas. He is so called because in the

creative cycle of creation, sustentation, and dissolution, He is the support of

the Gunas – Satva, Rajas and Tamas – with which these functions are

performed.Nirguno: One who is without the Gunas of Prakruti.Mahan: The great.

Adhrutah: One who, being the support of all supporting agencies, like Pruthvi

(Earth), is not supported by anything external to Him.Svadhrutah: One supported

by oneself. Svasyah: One whose face is beautiful and slightly red like the

inside of a lotus flower. Pragvamsho: The family lines of others are preceded

by the lines of still others, but the Lord’s descendent, namely, the world

system, is not preceded by anything else.Vamshavardhanah: One who augments or

destroys the world-system, which is His off-spring. Bhara-bhrut kathito yogi

yogishah sarva-kamadahAshramah shramanah kshamah suparno

vayu-vahanah ..91 Bhara-bhrut: One who bears the weight of the earth assuming

the form of Ananta.Kathito: One who is spoken of as the highest by the Veda or

one of whom all Vedas speak.Yogi: Yoga here means knowledge. So He who is

attained by that is Yogi. Or Yoga means Samadhi. He who is ever established in

His own Self, that is, the Paramatma. He is therefore Yogi.Yogishah: He who is

never shaken from Yoga or knowledge and establishment in His own Self, unlike

ordinary Yogis who slip away from Yoga on account of obstacles.Sarva-kamadah:

One who bestows all desired fruits.Ashramah: One who is the bestower of rest on

all who are wandering in the forest of Samsara.Shramanah: One who brings

tribulations to those who live without using their discriminative power.Kshamah:

He who brings about the decline of all beings.Suparnah: The lord who has

manifested Himself as the tree of Samsara has excellent leaves (Parna) in the

form of Vedic passages (Chandas).Vayu-vahanah: He for fear of whom Vayu (Air)

carries all beings. Dhanurdharo dhanurvedo dando damayita damahAparajitah

sarvasaho niyanta niyamo yamah ..92 Dhanurdharo: He who as Rama

wielded the great bow.Dhanurvedo: He who as the same Rama, the son of

Dasharatha, was the master of the science of archery.Dando: He who is

discipline among the disciplinarians.Damayita: He who inflicts punishments on

people as Yama and as king.Damah: He who is in the form of self-descipline in

men as a result of enforcement.Aparajitah: One who is never defeated by

enemies.Sarvasaho: One who is expert in all Karmas (works). Niyanta: One who

appoints every person to his respective duties.Aniyamo: One on whom there is no

enforcement of any law, or above whom there can be no overlord to enforce

anything, as He is the controller of everything.Ayamah: One on whom Yama has no

control, that is one who has no death. Satvavan satvikah satyah

satya-dharma-parayanahAbhiprayah priyarho-rhah priyakrut pritivardhanah ..93

Satvavan: One who has got the strengthening qualities like heroism, prowess

etc.Satvikah: One who is established essentially in the Satva Guna.Satyah: One

who is truly established in good people.Satya-dharma-parayanah: One who is

present in truthfulness and righteousness in its many aspects.Abhiprayah: The

One who is sought after by those who seek the ultimate values of life

(Purushartha).Priyarhah: The being to whom the objects that are dear to

oneself, are fit to be offered. Arhah: One who deserves to be worshipped with

all the ingredients and rites of

worship like offerings, praise, prostration etc.Priyakrut: One who is not only

to be loved but who does what is good and dear to those who worship

Him.Pritivardhanah: One who enhances the joys of devotees. Vihayasagatir jyotih

suruchir huta-bhug vibhuhRavir virochanah suryah savita ravilochanah ..94

Vihayasagatir: One who is the support of Vishupada.Jyotih: One who is the light

of self-luminous consciousness that reveals oneself as well as other

things.Suruchir: The Lord whose Ruchi i.e. brilliance or will, is of an

attractive nature.Huta-bhug: One who eats, that is, receives, whatever is

offered to whatever deities (Devas) in all sacrifices.Vibhuh: One who dwells

everywhere. Or one who is the master of all the three worlds.Ravir: One who

absorbs all Rasas (fluids) in the form of the Sun.Virochanah: One who shines in

many ways.Suryah: One who generates Shri or brilliance in Surya. Or Agni (Fire)

is what is called Surya.Savita: One who brings forth (Prasava) all the worlds.

Ravi-lochanah: One having the sun as the eye. Ananto huta-bhug bhokta sukhado

naikajo-grajahAnirvinnah sadamarshi lokadhishthana-madbhutah ..95 Ananto: One

who is eternal, all-pervading and indeterminable by space and time.Hutabhuk:

One who consumes what is offered in firesacrifices.Bhokta: One to whom the

unconscious Prakruti is the object for enjoyment.Sukhado: One who bestows

liberation (Miksha) on devotees.Naikajo: One who takes on birth again and again

for the preservation of Dharma.Agrajah: One who was born before everything else,

that is, Hiranya-garbha.Anirvinnah: One who is free from all sorrow, because he

has secured all his desires and has no obstruction in the way of such

achievement.Sadamarshi: One who is always patient towards good

men.Lokadhishthanam: Brahman who, though without any other support for Himself,

supports

all the three worlds.Adbhutah: The wonderful being. Sanat sanatana-tamah

kapilah kapir avyayah Svastidah svastikrut svasti svastibhuk svasti-dakshinah

...96 Sanat: The word Sanat indicates a great length of time. Time also is the

manifestation of the Supreme Being.Sanatana-tamah: Being the cause of all, He

is more ancient than Brahma and other beings, who are generally considered

eternal.Kapilah: A subterranean fire in the ocean is

Kapila, light red in colour. Kapir: ‘Ka’ means water. One who drinks or absorbs

all water by his Kapi, that is, the sun. Avyayah: One in whom all the worlds

get dissolved in Pralaya.Svastidah: One who gives what is auspicious to

devotees.Svastikrut: One who works bestowing what is good.Svasti: One whose

auspicious form is characterized by supreme Bliss.Svastibhuk: One who enjoys

the Svasti mentioned above or who preserves the Svasti of

devotees.Svasti-dakshinah: One who augments as Svasti (auspiciousness).

Araudrah kundali chakri vikramyurjita-shasanahShabdatigah shabdasahah sisirah

sarvari-karah ..97

line-break"> 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.Kundali: One who has

taken the form of Adisesha. 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.Vikrami: Vikrama means taking a stride, as also courage.Urjita-shasanah:

One whose dictates in the form of shrutis and smrutis are of an extremely

sublime nature.Shabdatigah: One who cannot be denoted by any sound because He

has none of the characteristics, which could be grasped by sound.Sabdasahah:

One who is the purport of all Vedas.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.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. Akrurah peshalo

daksho dakshinah kshiminam varahVidvattamo vitabhayah punya-shravana-kirtanah

...98 Akrurah: One who is without cruelty. Peshalo: One who is handsome in

regard to His actions, mind, word and body.Daksho: One who is fullgrown, strong

and does every thing quickly, such a person is Daksha. Dakshinah: This word is

also means the same as the above Nama. Kshiminam varah: The greatest among the

patient ones, because He is more patient than all Yogis noted for

patience.Vidvattamo: He who has got the unsurpassable and all-inclusive

knowledge of everything.Vitabhayah: One who, being eternally free and the Lord

of all, is free from the fear of trnsmigratory life.Punya-shravana-kirtanah:

One to hear about whom and to sing of whom is meritorious.

Roman">Uttarano dushkrutiha punyo duh-svapna-nasanahViraha rakshanah santo

jivanah paryavasthitah ..99 Uttarano: One who takes beings over to the other

shore of the ocean of Samsara.Dushkrutiha: One who effaces the evil effects of

evil actions. Or one who destroys those who perform evil.Punyo: One who bestows

holiness on those who remember and adore Him.Duh-svapna-nasanah: When adored and

meditated upon, He saves one from dreams foreboding danger. Hence He is called

so.Viraha: One who frees Jivas from bondage and thus saves them from the

various transmigratory paths by bestowing liberation on them.Rakshanah: One

who, assuming the Satvaguna, protects all the three worlds.Santo: Those who

adopt

the virtuous path are called good men (Santah).Jivanah: One who supports the

lives of all beings as Prana.Paryavasthitah: One who remains pervading

everywhere in this universe. Ananta-rupo ananta-shri jitamanyur bhayapahah

Chaturashro gabhiratma vidisho vyadisho dishah ..100 Ananta-rupo: One who has

innumerable forms, as He dwells in this all-comprehending universe.Ananta-shri:

One whose Shri (glory) is infinite. Jitamanyur: One who

has overcome anger.Bhayapahah: One who destroys the fears of beings from

Samsara.Chaturashro: One who is just, because He bestows on Jivas the fruits of

their Karma.Gabhiratma: One whose nature is unfathomable.Vidisho: One who

distributes various furits of actions to persons differing in their forms

according to competency.Vyadisho: One who gives to Indra and other deities

directions according to their varied functions.Dishah: One who in the form of

the Vedas bestows the fruits of their ritualistic actions on different beings.

Anadi bhurbhuvo lakshmih suviro

ruchirangadah Janano janajanmadir bhimo bhima-parakramah ..101 Anandi: One who

has no beginning because He is the ultimate cause of all.Bhurbhuvo: ‘Bhu’ means

support. One who is the support (Bhu) of even the earth, which is known to

support all things.Lakshmih: He who is the bestower of all that is auspicious

to the earth besides being its supporter.Suviro: One who has many brilliant

ways of manifestation.Ruchirangadah: One who has very attractive

armlets.Janano: One who gives brith to living beings.Jana-janmadir: One who is

the root cause of the origin of Jivas that come to have embodiment.Bhimo: One

who is the cause of fear.Bhima-parakramah: One whose power and courage in His

incarnations were a cause of fear for the Asuras. Adharanilayo dhata pushpahasah

prajagarahUrdhvagah sat-pathacharah pranadah pranavah panah ..102 Adharanilayo:

One who is the support of even all the basic supporting factors like the five

elements – Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.Adhata: One who is one’s own

support and therefore does not require another support.Pushpahasah: One whose

manifestation as the universe resembles the Hasa or blooming of

buds into flowers.Prajagarah: One who is particularly awake, because He is

eternal Awareness.Urdhvagah: One who is above everything.Sat-pathacharah: One

who follows the conduct of the good.Pranadah: One who givesback life to dead

ones as in the case of Parikshit.Pranavah: Pranava (Om) the manifesting sound

symbol of Brahman. As He is inseparably related with Pranava, He is called

Pranava.Panah: It comes from the root ‘Prana’ meaning transaction. So one who

bestows the fruits of Karma on all according to their Karma. Prmanam

prananilayah pranabhrut pranajivanahTatvam tatvavidekatma

janma-mrutyu-jaratigah ..103

line-break"> Pramanam: One who is self-certifying, as He is Pure

Consciousness.Prananilayah: The home or dissolving ground of the

Pranas.Pranabhrut: One who strengthens the Pranas as food (Anna).Pranajivanah:

He who keeps alive human beings with Vayus (airs) known as Prana, Apana

etc.,Tatvam: Means Brahman, just as words like Amruta, Satya, Paramartha

etc.Tatvavid: One who knowns His own true nature.Ekatma: One who is the sole

being and the spirit (Atma) in all. Janma-mrutyu-jaratigah: One who subsists

without being subject to the six kinds of transformations – being born,

existing, temporarily, growing, transforming, decaying and dying. Bhurbhuvah

svastarus-tarah savita prapitamahahYagyo yagya-patir-yajva yagyango

yagya-vahanah ..104 Bhur-bhuvah-svastarus: The three Vyahrutis Bhuh, Bhuvah,

Svah are said to be the essence of the Veda. Tarah: One who helps Jivas to go

across the ocean of Samsara.Savita: He who generates all the

worlds.Prapitamahah: One who is the father of Brahma and therefore the

grandfather of all.Yagyo: One who is of the form of Yagya. Yagya-patir: One who

is the protector and the master of the Yagyas.Yajva: One who manifests as the

performer of a Yagya.Yagyango: All the

parts of His body as the incarnate Cosmic Boar are identified with the parts of

a yagya.Yagya-vahanah: One who supports the Yagya which yield various fruits.

Yagyabhrud yagyakrud yagyi yagyabhrug yagyasadhanahYagyanantakrud yagyaguhyam

annam annada eva cha ..105 Yagyabhrud: He is so called, because He is the

protector and supporter of all yagyas.Yagyakrud: One who performs Yagya at the

beginnig and end of the world.Yagyi: One who is the

Principal.Yagyabhrug: One who is the enjoyer of Yagya or Protector of

Yagya.Yagyasadhanah: One to whom the Yagya is the approach.Yagyanantakrud: One

who is the end or the furits of yagya.Yagyaguhyam: The gyana yagya or the

sacrifice of knowledge, which is the esoteric (Guhyam) of all the

yagyams.Annam: That which is eaten by living beings. Or He who eats all

beings.Annada eva cha: One who is the eater of the whole world as food. The

word Eva is added to show that He is also Anna, the food eaten. Atmayonih

svayamjato vaikhanah samagayanahDevaki-nandanah srashtha kshitishah

papanashanah ..106

line-break"> Atmayonih: One who is the source of all; that is, there is no

material cause other than Himself for the universe.Svayam-jato: He is also the

instrumental cause.Vaikhanah: One who excavated the earth, taking a unique

form.Samagayanah: One who recites the Sama chants.Devakidddd-nandanah: The Son

of Devaki in the incarnation as Krishna.Srashtha: The creator of all the

worlds.Kshitishah: A master of the world. Here it denotes Rama.Papanashanah: He

who destroys the sins of those who adore Him, meditate upon Him, remember and

sing hymns of praise on Him. Shankhabrun -nandaki chakri sharangadhnva

gadadharahRathanga panirakshobhyah sarva-praharanayudhah ..107 Shankhabrun: One

who sports the conch known as Panchajanya, which stands for Tamasahamkara, of

which the five elements are born.Nandaki: One who has in His hand the sword

known as Nandaka, which stands for Vidya (spiritual illumination).Chakri: One

who sports the discus known as Sudarshana, which stands for the Rajasahamkara,

out of which the Indriyas have come.Gadadharah: One who has the mace known as

the Kaumodaki, which stands for the category of Buddhi.Rathangapani: One in

whose hand is a wheel (Chakra).Rakshobhyah: One who cannot be upset by

anything,

because He controls all the above-mentioned weapons.Sarva-praharana-yudhah:

There is no rule that the Lord has got only the above-mentioned weapons. All

things, which can be used for contacting or striking, are His weapons.

Vanamali gadi sharangi shankhi chakri cha nandakiShriman narayano

vishnur-vasudevo-abhirakshatu ..108

mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Om Tat Sat CONCLUDED With Sai love from Sai

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