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STANZA-44 VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM

vakunthah purusah pranah pranadah pranavah prthuh

hiranyagarbhah satrughno vyapto vayuradhoksajah

 

Vaikunthah-The abode of the Lord which is the plane of supreme consciousness

Purusah-The spirit ,soul and personality that exist in any plane.

Pranah-The vital plane that governs the individual, and the cosmic breath

Pranadah-life-giver

Pranavah-the sacred letter OM

Prthuh-Emperor

Hiranyagarbhah-the egg of golden yellow light

Sartrughnah-The slayer of enemies

Vyaptah-One who expands and occupies

Vayuh-Air

Adhoksajah-One who sends himself down as the germinating principle

 

Meaning

Meditate the Lord as the experience of the supreme plane of consciousness as the

personality of the individual and the cosmic consciousness, as life, the in

filling breath of all dimensions and as the life-giver.Meditate Him as OM and as

the emperor Pruthu, as the golden egg that hatches Bramhma.The Lord is the

slayer of enemies and the one who expands  and occupies the place of the

enemies.He is the cosmic pulsation and the germination principle that comes down

to the grosser planes

 

Explanation:

1.Vaikuntha is the plane of Narayana.It is the seventh subplane of the seventh

plane which can be  named as the cosmic substance of the cosmic

consciousness.The term literally means the plane which excludes imperfection

2.Already explained.

3.Life is in the plane of force in the individual and in the plane of Rudras in

the universe.It is the gateway between matter and consciousness and it

galvanizes every unit of matter into activity.

4.The life giving principle is the consciousness that comes down as the

Sun’sray to the beings of our earth.So the Sun-god is worshipped as the father

by the vedic seers.

5.Already explained

6.Pruthu is among the emperors who shaped the physical  plane of the earth

planet.He moulded the vortex of the subtler forces and called it mount Meru.He

shaped the grosser planes of the earth from the vortex just as the milk –man

milks the cow.

7.Already explained.

8.Enemies are but the centres of wrong arrangement where forces and

consciousnesses are at war.The mutually conflicting forces in the spiritual

student arc called enemies.They are lust, etc.and are six in number .They

disappear as ling as the disciple meditates upon the presence of the Lord

consciousness.Hence the Lord is the slayer of the enemies who are the images of

one’s own undesirable traits.

9.During meditation, the Lord consciousness expands and occupies the spots of

enemy –consciousness.

10.Vyau is pulsation in space which produces movement in space and causes the

birth of air.

11.Already explained.

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

Regards

bharathi.A