STANZA- 7 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA -7

 

agrahyah sasvato krsno

lohitaksah pratardanah

prabhurastrikakubdhama

pavitram mangalam param

 

          

                              

                         iiiiiiWord Meaning:

 

 

 

(Agrtihyah) = cannot be comprehended

  , ,

(Stisvatah) = eternal

 

 (Kr~1Jah) = darkness divine

 

(Lohittiksah) = having red eyes

 

(Pratardanah) = One who withstands

 

(Prabhutah) = well-formed

 

(Trikakub) = having three names

 

(Dhtima) = the path of light

 

(Pavitram) = purity

 

(Mangalam) = auspiciousness

 

(Param) = the highest.

 MEANING:

 

Invoke the Lord as beyond comprehension and as eternal the darkness impregnable

(mystery). He is the one with red eyes and he is all-resistent. He is

well-formed into the various manifestations and has three names. He is the path

of light and purity of all pure things. He is the highest concept of

auspiciousness.

Explanation:

1. Comprehension is through the mind and senses. Since God is all and the mind

is only a pattern which forms a minute particle of the whole it cannot

comprehend what God is. One can experience God by the process of becoming and

being and not by thinking and understanding.

2. Since God stands as the background of all that is changing he is unchanged

and hence eternal.

3. What we call darkness is darkness to the mechanism of senses and mind. To

itself it is no darkness but is the great light of existence. It is the greatest

of all mysteries to the one in the capacity of an objective observer. To the one

who submits his I AM to the Lord he is the I AM. The \iueness of the sky is only

as it appears and it is not true in itself. Hence it is taken as a similie to

the colour of the Lord. Lord Krishna is described as having the body of deep

blue colour.

4. The colour of the sunrise and sunset are symbols of the emerging and the

merging of the individual consciousness. The white light and the spectrum

thereof are only the limitations or the range of visibility to the human eye.

What we call darkness is the totality of the real light. From the darkness which

is real light, the spectrum becomes visible, when the demarkation manifests as

the red colour.

5. God is the background of all other things that survive in the process of

their becoming or being created. Hence, the backgtound is the only thing that

resists all the changes and stands as it is, amidst and beyond the changes.

 

6. Everything from the atom to the solar system depends upon form, both physical

and subtle. We find in this creation everything well-formed in its own shape

that keeps its own identity. This power is due to the presence of the awareness

of the Lord.

7. God is described as having three names which are vortices of existence. The

three planes physical, vital and spiritual are the three vortices which contain

the whole creation as the body of the Lord.

8. Before everything is created there is space. Space is the light that spreads

as the first presence. It also forms the path of the Lord descending into the

beings of creation. Inversely it also forms the path from the created individual

to the Lord when retraced.

 

9. Purity is a relative term. Something is purer than another thing which is

filthy. The whole creation is a range of

layers of realisation.. When the individual grows aware of each new layer, the

previous one is relatively impure to him unless he enlightens it and fills it

with the presence of the newly experienced layer. This process continues until

the individual finds no further layers than himself This is what we call God and

hence, He is the purest of all purities.

10. People understand something good desirable and auspicious according to their

own understanding and limitation. One may think financial gain as auspicious,

another may think that the day of child birth is auspicious. These concepts

carry only their concept of auspiciousness bur not real auspiciousness or good.

Real good is only the plan of the Lord which lies in the ultimate fitness of

things and the individual following it.

11. The highest of auspiciousness is comprehended and experienced when the

individual finds his fitness into the plan of Lord. There is no higher state of

being than this.

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A