vishnu sahasra namam , stanza- 39

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STANZA-39

 

atulah sarabho bhimah samayajno havirharih

sarvalaksanalaksanyo  laksmivan samitinjayah

 

Atulah- Unequalled

 

Sarabhah – God Veerabhadra

 

Bhimah – frightening

 

Samayajnah – one who knows the tradition

 

Havih – the oblation in a sacrifice

 

Harih – the Lord who comes down

 

Saralaksana – one who is featured by all good features

 

Laksmivan – The Lord of the Goddess of splendour

 

Samitinjayah- one who excels his equals in discussions

 

MEANING  :

 

    Meditate the Lord as having no equals; as the ferocious form of Sarabha,

the frightening form of Siva, the Lord of destruction . He knows all the

traditions .. He is the oblation in the sacrifice and the Lord who comes down to

lay the law . His form is the fitness of all the good features of creation. He

is the Lord of the goddess of splendour and the one who excels his equals

 

EXPLANATION :

 

1. Since he is the presence and the background ofall and everything in the

creation, he cannot have an equal in the creation. Any thing can be a part  of

Himself which cannot afford  to be the whole

2. Veerabhadra is the form born out of the wrath of Lord Siva.Heis born to

destroy the sacrifice of Daksha, the Prahapathi. In the end, he cuts the head of

Daksha and leaves the sacrifice incomplete. The Devas complete the sacrifice by

replacing the Dakdha’s  head of a ram.Daksha is the year-god who is the

sacrifice with all the details of the year as the work of all the gods assembled

..The equinox  cuts the year a the work of all the gods assembled .The equinox

cuts the year to mark the end and to begin once again with the head of the ram

which is the first sign of  the Zodiac

3. Bhima is the name of the Lord Siva himself  when he assumes the form of

destruction.

4. We all know our tradition  that are local and man- made.The Lord knows

traditions that are local and man-made.The Lord knows traditions that are

eternal and universal.He recollects Himself as the tradition which Hehim self

lays as the order of the creation and the good order of tradition which is

followed by the holy ones to attain liberation

 

1. The oblation in the sacrifice signifies the intelligence and the lower

principle of matter and force that serve as the vehicles of the beings. To the

created ones, it signifies the spirit of offering which they have.

 

1.. When the Lord comes down into a form to lay the Law and proctect the

Lawful, then he is called Hari.

 

1. The concept of beauty , Happiness, goodness, and such things are all the

gifts of God which manifest through the beings in creation. Hence the Lord is an

aggregate of all the god things which we can conceive of in meditation.

 

1. The goddess of splendour and plenty has the Lord as her husband and hence

the Lord should be meditated as eternally splendourous.

 

1. The power to overcome his equals in gathering , is really one of the

manifestation of the Lord. The power to excel proves that the powers in others

can never be equal to His .Hence it should be meditated as the wise trait of the

Lord.

COURTESY -MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A