STANZA-35 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-35

 

acyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah

apannidhradhisthan amapramattah pratisthitah

 

Achyutah – One who has no slips and fall

 

Prathitah – The well – known

 

Pranah – Life and pulsation

 

Pranadah – Thegiver of life

 

Vasavnujah – The younger brother of Indra

 

Apamnidhih – The treasure – house of water

 

Adhistanam – the seat to acquire

 

Apramattah – Who has no unawareness

 

Pratistitah – One who is made is made stable

 

MEANING :

 

Meditate theLord as the one who has no slip and fall.He is the most popularized

and well-known one, thevery life and the life giver of all.He is the younger

brother of Indra, the abode of water and the one to be attached .He is never

unware of anything and hence he is the one who is established.

 

EXPLANATION :

 

1. Slip and fall occur due to error in procedure which is human and never

divine.Since the Lord isan embodiment of continuous awareness in others , he has

no slip though others sometimes may have due to their own unwareness towards

Him.

 

        2.          Since the Lord is all,and everyone knows

something or other in this world, the Lord is by all individuals  as their own

branch of individual knowledge and Hence He is the one known by all.Gradually

this knowledge of the one or many others things in the world  leads beings to a

knowledge of his omnipresence.

 

      3         Life is the one which visits bodies tochoose them

as its own abodes.It again leaves the bodies  when the purpose is over.Hence it

is the one form of the Lord  who visits all and leaves all.Others are forms and

life is the in-filling presence which lives in forms.It is also the vital

pulsation that makes  its appreance and disappreance   in the very space.This

cosmic pulsation causes the pulsation of respiration and heart- beat  in us

which is the sign of life.Hence the Lord is the very  life of the whole

universe and each individual.

 

      4          He is also the giver of life to the forms since

He is the one who proposes to fill them with life.Bodies coming into life can

never be caused by individual since the causation is due to the presence of the

Lord as the vital awareness.Sometimes there areindividuals who give us life by

saving us from  great danger like disease and catastrophy.Once again, the

presence of the Lord is to be collected in them as the cause of their saving

us.Honour them , as a token of gratitude  and you are honouring the Lord as the

cause of your safety

 

       5         As the incarnation of ‘Vamana  ’ the Lord is

born as an younger brother of Indra.Both areborn to the same parents kasyapa[

thevault of heaven] and Aditi [ the primordial matter].Vamana came down to earth

to restore the kingdom of Gods from Bali toIndra and also to restore the eternal

kingdom of his own presence upon Bali

 

      6         The electricity  in space is the abode  of water

in all the three states: steam,water, and ice.Vidyuth, the electric fire in

space, synthesizes and analyses waters to creat and destroy.The Lord is thus the

abode of waters when he works as the creator and destroyer of the world.The

formation of ocean  on this earth and the clouds in the heaven is also a play

of the Lord as abode   of the waters.

 

      7          Space is the seat to be acquired by the beings

created from space.Hence the Lord is the abode of beings as well as the

attainment of the various stages of  creation and realization.Everything lives

in Him even after created and hence the Lord is the real acquisition of all.The

imaginary things acquired and possessed by beings are also the various

presence  of Lord in their true existence.

 

      8          If we observe the workings of nature and

creation, we see no error in any step.Error is characteristic of the mind of the

created beings especially the humanbengs.In nature, everthing abides the law

while  manifesting the properties of matter,force,mind and space.This is due to

the presence of the Lord  as the awareness in all.Even in us,he  is aware as

the indercurrent of our consciousness[Gaytri] which guides us to perfection

through our errors and falls.

 

      9        Everyone tries to established  his own

concepts,beliefs and ideals.Eveyone tries to prove the validity of what he knows

as knowledge . Thus everyone  tries to establish the Lord’s presence in the

form of his own knowledge.Hence the Lord  is the one who is established and

stablished by all.

 

 

courtesy-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A