STANZA-9 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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Namaste,

 

I am not giving a detailed explanation here.

 

The name in consideration Hiranyagarbha refers to the pre-cosmic state by which

time the sex differentiation was not there. God or the Lord at that time or in

that state is simply androgynous or hermaphrodite. So there is no objection to

the reference of womb.

 

I would like to mention that Sri Praveen who gave his meanings for stanza 8,

almost followed Master EK's interpretation only. Master gave the etymological

meanings of the words or the worldly meanings (which are commonly understood)

first, and then gave the esoteric meanings in the commentary. So those meanings

almost match with Sri Praveen's meanings. However, in Sanskrit, Jyestha always

means the eldest or the foremost and not the first as we understand it, as an

ordinal number.

 

Thank You

Bharathi

 

 

 

 

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prainbow61 <paulie-rainbow

 

Friday, 13 February, 2009 9:29:32 AM

Re: STANZA-9 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

 

 

Namaste,

 

This " womb " part is confusing to me. How is this aspect of the divine

identified as a womb, and yet as masculine?

 

pr

 

, live life <livelife2k7@ ...> wrote:

>

> STANZA  -8

> Isanah pranadah prano

> jyesthah sresthah prajapatih

> hiranyagarbho bhugarbho

> madhavo madhusudanah

>  

> (Isanah) = The Lord Most High 

> (Pranadah) = giver of life

> (Pranah) = life

> .

> Jyestah) = the eldest

> (Srestah) = the choicest

> (Prajapatih) = ProgenitOr

> (Hiranyagarbhah) = the golden egg

> (Bhugarbhah) = the centre of the earth; and womb of the earth

> (Madhavah) = the husband of the wealth goddess

> (Madhusudanah) = the one who crushed the demon Madhu.

>  

>  MEANING:

>  

> Invoke the Lord as the most high, as the life-giver and the life; as

the eldest and the choicest of the whole creation; as the progenitor,'

the golden egg and the centre as well as the womb of the earth; as the

husband of the wealth goddess and the one who crushed the demon Madhu.

> Explanation :

> 1. The Lord most high means the one who presides over every part and

particle of the creation, the indweller and the one beyond.

> 2. Life is the manifestation of space energy which expresses itself

through the vital centres of the body to raplenish every part

continuously. Since the Lord is the content of the space, He is the

life-giver.

> 3. He is not only the content of space bur also of the layers of

space, the nucleus of the atoms and the energy centres in our body. He

is the very life itself,

>  

> .

>  

> 4. Since everything is born our of him He is the eldest of all the

created entities.

>  

> 5. Since He is the essence and content of everything, He is the

choicest desire towards which everyone should strive to progress.

> 6. The seed, principle of the whole universe is one of his

manifestation. Hence, He is the seed principle of every seed, and is

rightly the Progenitor.

> 7. Since the globe of space activises as the globe of golden light

from the background space of darkness, before every creation, the

creator, Brahma, is said to be born out of the golden egg.

>

>  

> 8. The spark of the earth towards itself It is also conscious of

itself being attracted towards the sun, and repelled by the force of

its own speed. Hence, this centre keeps poise to keep the earth in its

own orbit. This is the centre which was the first womb of the

formation of the whole earth globe. This centre is one of the

manifestations of the Lord.

>  

> 9. The goddess of wealth and splendour is Laxmi. She is the wife of

the Lord and resides always in his heart during pralaya and on his

chest during the creation.

> 10. When the space globe was first existing during the creative

slumber of the Lord, its space became two equal parts. ( two different

charges of lines of force). Two opposing forces sprang up in the form

of two great demons, Madhu and Kaitabha.. The Lord killed them

(neutralised them and formed the two poles of the space globe). Hence,

He is the killer of the demon Madhu.

>  

> COURTESY -  MASTER E.K

> Regards

> Bharathi.A

>

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STANZA -9

 

Isvaro vikramee dhanvee

medhavee vikramah kramah

anuttamo duradharsah

krtajnah krtiratmavan

 

(iswarah) = The Lord of the Individual

 (Vikrami) = One who overtakes by valour

(Dhanvi) = He who has a bow

..

 

(Medhavi) = resourceful

(Vikramah) = One who has a peculiar succession

 

(Kramah) = One who crosses over things

(Anuttamah) = the highest

(Duradharsah]=One who cannot be frightened

(K.rtajnah) = the faithful

(K.rtih) = the accomplished

(Atmavan) = the spirited one

 MEANING :

 

Invoke the Lord as the Lord of the individual and as the tne who overtakes by

valour; the one who has a bow and is resourceful; who has a peculiar succession

of things and who crosses over things. He is the highest who cannot be

frightened. He is the faithful one, the accomplished and the spirited one.

 

 Explanation :

 

1. The inner Lord, the Lord of the atom, individual and the universe. The word

Iswara means the light which pervades and influences the individual unit,

especially in an administrative sense. The Vedas explain that whatever exists in

this world is lived and ruled by Iswara. The Bhagavadgita says that He lives in

the hearts of every being and makes the being work and evolve around himself

Patanjaii says that the Lord is the light If the Soul for whom we conduct the

practice of yoga. Meditating upon Him will lead us to yoga state.

 

2. Vikrami means the one who overtakes other by valour. In the lower plane, He

is approached as competition and a :ompetitive spirit. On the administrative

plane, He works as he sense of defence and consciousnesS! On the highest plane,

He manifests as the unconquerable steadiness of the soul-light which can defeat

every shortcoming.

 

3. Dhanvi. He possesses a bow. This is a sign of protection .nd war like nature.

He is the valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked. On the lower

plane, He is understood as the use of a weapon. On the higher planes, He is the

point of the aPplication of consciousness, who is located at a point between he

eyebrows. He is located as the attempt to utter OM. It is aid that the utterance

of OM is the bow, the five senses are the arrows that should be aimed at inwards

to hit the object of the individual consciousness which we call ego and we

attain liberation thereby.

 

4. Medhavi. Resourcefulness is the invisible ocean upon he surface of which

rises the wave of our application or approach to do things. He lives as

invisible presence in us and makes his appearance in us and makes his appearance

as our own approach when the situation comes.

 

5. Vikramah. Situations in life will be transformed from the nature of obstacles

to the nature of steps to achieve by following a peculiar succession of events.

The arrangement of events into right succession causes success. This arrangement

by the intuitive approach is the presence of the Lord Himsel£

 

6. Kramah. The Lord should be traced as the creative intelligence which makes us

cross over incidents to remove the nature of obstacles from them.

 

7. Anuttamah. Our constitUtion is an arrangement of everything as better than

its lower. The betterness leads to the betterment of the lower into the higher.

Thus the Lord's presence exists in us always as something higher and leads us to

the highest state, which is Himsel£

 

8. Duradharsah. The vulnerability to get frightened at something exists as part

of the lower nature in us; it exists as the result of objectivity of the

cognisance of the non-self Fear is an expression of the unknown. The Lord. as

pervasion expands as the awareness of His subjective presence and removes fear

by this meditation. Thus the Lord Himself stands in us as the one who cannot be

frightened.

 

9. Krtajnah. Faithfulness is the quality of remembering the good deeds of

others. It is the intelligence which traces goodness and which reciprocates

goodness. It is the Lord's presence in us as goodness.

 

10. Kritih. The above trait and its meditation leads one to the realisation of

accomplishing everything and live accomplished in Him as the accomplishment.

          11. Atmavan. The presence of the divine spirit in us makes us

the spirited ones and this spirit expresses in its Own way on every plane until

we realise it.

 

COURTESY -MASTER E.K

Regards

Bharathi.A 

 

 

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