STANZA-23 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA -24

 

agranirgramanih sriman nyayo neta samiranah

sahasra murdha visvatma sahasraksah sahasrapat

 

(Agranih) = The foremost

 

(Gramanih) = The leader of the group

 

(Srima n) = The; owner of wealth

 

(Nyayah) = Embodiment of justice

 

(Neta) = One who leads

 

(Samiranah) = The breeze that blows

 

(Saharamurdha) = The thousand headed

 

(Visva tma) = The spirit of the universe

 

(Sahasrakah) = The thousand eyed

 

(Sahasrapath) = The thousand footed

 

MEANING:

 

Invoke the Lord as the foremost, the leader of the group, the owner,

of wealth; the embodiment of justice; and the one who leads. He is the

very wind that blows, across the whole creation. He is also thousand -

headed thousand eyed and thousand-footed. He is the very spirit of the

universe.

 

Explanation :

 

1. As the spirit of all He leads everything and everyone from the very

birth of the atOm to its death. The spirit is the one existence beyond

beginning and ending and hence it leads everything to its emerging and

merging.

 

2. Leadership in its spirituaI sense is rather functional than

individual. It is impersonal and exists everywhere. Millions of atoms

are gathered by one around Himself and the result is the constitution

and the organisation which we call the birth of one organism, may it

be the individual plant, animal, human being or planet or the solar

system. It is the leader principle that makes the existence of th~

unit possible. The same thing works to organise the society in the

form of a political, religious, social, academic or a religous leader

of any place or time. This principle is the manifestation of the Lord

as a device to carry our the plan of the

whole creation through the power of organising.

 

3. Nature with all its creation stands as the wealth of the Lord since

He is not included in nature and He includes nature as part of Himsel£

The same attitude towards wealth leads one to live identified with the

Lord-Consciousness. As long as one is not identified with any part of

creation or nature he is one with the Lord. This state is the real

Lordship over wealth.

 

4. Everyone is instinctively after protection and hence wants someone

to protect. This desire makes everyone expect that which is due to him

and someone should help him in establishing justice in his own case.

This keeps the concept of justice suspended in all minds and an

accepted ethical and penal code is the result. Hence it is a

manifestation of the Lord.

 

5. The mind leads some people. In some, it is the senses; in others,

it is the wealth. Hopes leads some, while aspirations lead others. All

these are the various manifestations of the spirit of the Lord. It

gradually leads the egos progressively through steps to the ultimate

perfection which is liberation. Thus the spirit is the leader of

everyone in his own level of understanding.

 

6. The wind that blows around us has its instinct to blow in the Lord

consciousness. The capaciry and the instinct belong to the power to

pulsate and this is the cause of the breath of all. Space is the abode

of the wind that blows and the Lord protects everyone to continue

breathing and living in space.

 

7. Sahasramurdha. The Lord is described as thousand¬headed. The heads

of all the living beings created are to be rightly understood ¥ the

heads of the one being who is the universal spirit. This fact is

proposed in the opening stanza of the Purusha Sukram which says, " The

personality of the Lord is thousand - headed, thousand - eyed and

thousand -footed " The innumerable number of heads produced in the

creation belong to the etheric body of the cosmic plane which is the

spirit or the para-nirvanic body of the planerary plane of this earth.

The number of heads etc. are divided into groups of thousands for

higher reasons. In the puranic symbolism, this form with

thousand-heads is described as the great serpent Ananta or Adisesha

within whose coils, the Lord slumbers as the dwelling one. The cosmic

breath makes this body live by virtue of the power of the man tram of

cosmic pulsation which is S & H ( Soham ) along with the mantra of

sound utterance which is the sound 'R', the trill of the vocal chords

and which is known as the Rig-Veda by the seers. The three syllables

of the two mantrams are put together S, H & R, and hence the heads of

the Lord are produced as Sahasra.

8. Already explained.

 

9. The word Sahasraksha denotes the god Indra. The word means the one

with thousand eyes, in the ordinary sense. In the Vedic sense, it

indicates that the Lord Indra is having a thousand Akshas or spokes of

light around him. It is the splendour of the sun-god having thousand

raylets oflight working as channels for the lines of force that keep

the planets in equilibrium to work as one solar system. Every point of

space in the solar system works as local centre of such a nature with

thousands oflines of force being emanated.

 

10. Sahasrapath means ordinarily the one with a thousand feet. In the

Vedic sense it indicates that the Lord manifests as a thousand units

of one-fourth of the total which forms the manifestation part of Lord.

" One-fourth forms the manifestation as all the created beings o/the

Lord, while three-fourths exists in eternity " , says the Purusha Sukta.

If we divide the circle into four equal parts by the c;oss which

manifests as the Lord with four arms one fourth of it sub tending 90°,

represents the manifestation part of the Lord as creation, while the

other three sectors work as potentialities unmanifest.

 

COURTESY -MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A

 

 

 

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