STANZA-23 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-23

 

''guruh gurutamo dhamh satya satya parakramah

nimiso nimisah sragvi vacaspatirudaradhih ''

 

Word Meaning :

 

Guruh - Preceptor

 

Gurutamah - The preceptor of preceptors

 

Dhamah - The path of light

 

Satyah - The truth of existence

 

Satyaparakramah - One who replaces other things with truth

 

Nimisah - The wink of the eye

 

Animisah - The Lord with his eyes having no wink

 

Sragwi - Decorated with a garland

 

Vacahspatih - The lord of speech

 

Usaradhih - The self-effulgent will

 

MEANING :

 

Meditate the Lord as the preceptor,the preceptoe of all preceptors,the

path of light and the truth of existence.He conquers by replacing

other things with the truth of his existence.Even the wink of the eye

is Himself while He has the glance with out awink of the eye .He is

the lord of speech since He exists in us in the form of our very self

-effulgent will.

 

EXPLANATION :

 

1. When the time for the realisation of the spirit comes, everyone

comes accross the presence of his own guru.Till then, the Lord waits

in the hearts of the guru and the disciple,as the two sparks of

consciousness dormant of each other's presence.Hence guru is the

principle that exists in all and not a person to another person.The

science of yoga teaches us '' The Lord who exist in the hearts of all

is the guru of gurus. ''He is the seed of all wisdom and all

realisation. ............Guru is the creator,the Lord of pervasion and

the Lord-Executive.He is the wisdom of the very omni-presence of one's

presence. Therefore,I bow down with my presence to the very

omni-presence .......... He exists in the hearts of all making the

rotation of all and everyone by fitting them into the machine of maya

 

3. Since every part of our body,life,mind and senses is an

externalisation of the Lord's spirit, pur process of retracing Him

through meditation forms the path of the light of the soul which is

the ray of the spirit.

 

4. Truth ranges from what we know as truth to the very law that

governs the existence of the whole creation. ''The earth is kept in

poise by the sun.The vault of space is kept in poise kof allby the

power of truth,the law of ecistence,'' says Rig-Veda.

 

5. Our knowledge of anything leads to its own core which is the truth

of the omni-presence of the Lord.

 

6. The wink of our eye marks the existence of our own objective

presence as a unit of our own measure of time and activity.It is lived

by His presence.

 

7. Our mind lives through an alternation of unconsciousness on the

baclground of the continuity, the undercurrent of consciousness.Our

unconsciousness alternates in the form of sleep,unawareness,abesence

of mind and death.All these states float on the waves of the

undercurrent which is the presence of the Lord Himself.Hence He is the

glance without a wink

 

8. All flowers of the earth decorate the Lord's presence in them in

the form of their own graceful blossoming.In doing so they form an

ever forming garland to the Lord.Hence the Lord is to be meditated as

one who is garlanded by the aray of the presence of all of us.

 

9. The source of our speech and expression is our own consciousness of

which we are its expression.Our individual consciouss is a unit of the

flood of light which is the Lord Himself.Hence He is the Lord of

whatever we speak out and express through our behaviour.

 

10. Thus,He is the self-effulgent will and wisdom that belongs to

ourselves and to which we belong.

 

COURTESY -- MASTER E.K

 

Regards

 

Bharathi.A