STANZA-26 VSHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA 26

 

suprasadah prasannatma visvadhrgvisvabhugvibhuh

satkarta satkrtah sadhurjanhurnarayano narah

 

Word Meaning :

 

Suprasadah – Well disposed

 

Prasannatma – Bountiful in spirit

 

Visvasrid – One who has created this universe

 

Vibhuh – One who rules

 

Satkarta – Doer of good

 

Satkrtah – Honoured

 

Sadhuh – Amicable

 

Januh – The name of a great sage

 

Narayanah – The path and goal of all beings

 

Narah -  The name of a great sage.

 

MEANING :

 

Meditate the Lord as well –disposed,the creater, ruler and destroyer

of the whole universe. He does good and is honoured.He is the

incarnation of the amicable sages,Jahnu,Narayana and Nara.

 

EXPLANATION :

 

1. He is well –disposed to all since . He is the spirit of friendship,

relationship and helpfulness.The Lord is always well-disposed as long

as one follows the lawful path.

 

2. He confers boons upon those who make penance. He confers everything

good upon those who have no desires and hence He is all bountiful.

 

3. He is the incarnation of Brahma,the creator and also the time that

comes all. Hence He is the creator and destroyer of all.

 

4.He rules everything in the form of the various laws of creation that

are governed by the law.

 

 

5. The urge to do something sood is due to the presence of the Lord in

everyone as the Lord of immanence.Everyone is interested to see

something good to himself and therefore he is instinctively inclined

to do something good.It is the surface mind which falls into evil to

do  evil things due to the desire nature, while the inner core is to

do good to each other.It is due  to the presence of  maya on the

surface nature and the Lord, in the inner nature.

 

6. The Lord is  honoured by all- in – the form of the wishes and

desires of the  ordinary people and the ideals in the mind of great

..He is also honoured  as the wisdom of the spirit by the demons

conduct worship and great penance in the penances in the name of the

Lord to satiate their own desires

 

 

7. Amicability is one of the godly qualities among beings. Hence the

Lord is amicable to one another in the name of his relatives and

friends.This quality binds living beings in well- arranged clusters

 

8.  Jahnu was a great sage. He was performing a big sacrifice when the

river Ganges washed off his sacrificial fiels along with  the

implements, while the flow was flowing, followed  by the chariot of

Bhagiradha at the time of her descent to earth.Then the sage grew

angry and began to drink away the whole flow.Bhagiradha prayed to the

sage and requested him to release the flow.Then  Jahnu released

through his right ear when the river has flown down along fields once

again

 

 

9.,10  Nara and Narayana are the great sages who performed great

penace a Badarikasram . They had no  desire except to the sense of

purity and piety.As a results,they became the universal principle of

purity and piety and stood as the two great forms of the a Lord. They

came down  later as Krishna and Arjuna before the Mahabharat war.They

were greatly praised by the Masters of wisdom like Vedavyasa and

Bhishma

 

COURTESY -MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A