STANZA -16 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-16

 

bhrajis nur bho janam bhokta

sahisnur jagadadijah

anagho vijayo jera

visvayonih punarvasuh

 

Word Meaning:

 

Bhrajisnuh) = The one with shinning nature

 

(Bhojanam) = that which is eaten for

 

sustenance

 

(Bhokta) = One who eats and sustains

himself

 

(Sahisnuh) = One who has enduring nature

 

Jagadidijah) = One who is born as the

beginning of creation

 

(Anaghah) = untouched by sin

 

(Vijayah) = success

 

Ueta) = the conqueror

 

(Viswayonih) = the .womb of the universe

 

(Punarvasuh) = the replenishing one

 

 

MEANING:

 

Invoke the Lord as having shining nature and who is the food of all. He is also

in the form of the eater of food. The Lord is

the one who endures all. He is the one born as the first creation in the

beginning. Untouched by sin, he shines as success and as the one conqueror of

all. He is the birth place of all things and has everything as his birth-place.

He is the replenishing principle of

all.

 

Explanation :

 

1. Nature is the brilliance of the Lord and through it. He shines forth into his

objectivity. He knows himself and he sees himself as all the beings by virtue of

his power of brilliance. Everyone knows

all others and the environment also by the same power of His brilliance which is

called maya or conditioning.

 

2. The same minerals- water, air etc., which live in our own body exist in the

bodies of others which we call animals and plants. Yet we eat the same matter as

food from the bodies of animals and plants and

sustain ourselves with it. The Lor4 gives birth to the bodies of living beings

beyond number and serves as the food of all. Every being

eats another being as food to sustain itsel£ In doing so, it is eating the Lord

in various forms. Verily the Lord is the food of all.

 

3, 4. In the same way, the Lord Himself manifests as the eater in all the

beings. Finally He is the eater of all, who eats everything into his own

subjectivity and hence, He is the one, who endures all.

 

5. The first born in creation is the creator Himself and the sacred ones who are

the first three, four, seven and twelve. The first three

are Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The first four are the four Kumaras who remain pure

throughout the creation. The first seven are the seven great lights who are

known as the Saptarishis (The seven seers). They are formed by the combination

of the three and the four and manifest through the

spectroscopy of the creation. The first twelve

are the Adityas who preside over the twelve months of the great year of one

creation. They are formed oUt of the multiplication ot the first three and the

first four. " They all take birth in me and they are my mind-born ones, " says the

Lord in the Bhagavadgita.

 

6,7. Since the Lord is the purest spirit from which everything comes out, He

cannot be touched by anything that came out before it can be transmUted as

Himsel£ Like the fire, which cannot be polluted by the

type of fuel it burns, the Lord cannot be touched by anyone of the sins of

creation. The Lord is the success of all. Everyone who can believe in Him knows

the order of the universe and its plan and acts only accordingly. Hence He knows

no defeat. A knowledge of the Lord is truly a knowledge of success.

 

8, 9. The spirit of conquering is an expression of rajasic natUre which

manifests as rulership, administration and leadership. It is the divine weapon

to establish the law and to protect it. It is one of the manifestations of the

Lord.     •

 

10. Vasu means wealth and Punarvasu means the replenishing of wealth at every

step. It is the truth of resourcefulness that ever exists in

nature as the grace of the Lord. One who cultivates confidence upon this truth

becomes resourceful in its true sense. Others who place confidence on money and

possessing things suffer at every step from

want and lack of resources and consequently from constant fear. This is because

of the lack of planning which is characteristic to the mind of a possessive

natUre. The Lord is verily the true source of all

resources to all.

 

 

COURTESY : MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A