Vishnu Sahasranama Stanza 31

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Om Namo Narayanaya!!

 

amritaamsoodbhavo bhaanuh sasabinduh suresvarah

aushadham jagatas-setuh satya-dharma-paraakramah.

 

 

283. Amritaamsoodbhavah -The moon who has consoling rays that gives the

essential

food value (Rasa) to the plants and fruits is called in Sanskrit as Amritaamsuh.

In the

Puranas it is described that the moon was first born from the milky-ocean during

its

churning. Since Vishnu is described as ever reposing upon His Ananta-bed in

Ksheerasaagara, the Lord is Himself termed here as the Begetter of the Moon.

Subjectively

Moon (Mati) is the Presiding Deity of the intellect, and the discriminating

intellect itself

arose when our bosom started churning the heart by the two forces, the positive

-the

good (Deva) -and the negative -Vicious (Asuras). If the Sun is the Presiding

Deity of

energy, moon represents the world of matter, and the very source from which the

world-

of-matter, Kshetra, has risen is Amritaam- soodbhavah.

 

284. Bhaanuh -Self-Effulgent; One who expresses Himself for the blessing of the

world in

the form of the Sun and presides over the entire solar system. Here is a passage

from

muNDakopanishad - tameva bhAntamanubhAti sarvam, tasya bhAsA sarvamidam vibhAti

-

(muNda - 2.2.10). He illumines Himself, and illumines everything else in this

world as well,

including the Sun, whose luster is one-thousandth of His luster.

 

285. Sasabinduh -The patch in the moon looks like the silhouette of a rabbit for

the naked

eye; that which has a " beauty-spot " (Bindu) in the shape of a rabbit (Sasa) is

called

Sasabindu -the moon. Since the Lord is the Nourisher of all and He is Himself

the entire

world of matter, He Himself is the Moon " that nourishes with essence all plant

kingdom " .

The Gita says " Pusnami c'ausadhih sarvah samo bhutva rasatmakah – as the watery

moon I

nourish all herbs " .

 

286. Suresvarah -Sura means Deva and so the term indicates " the God of all

gods " . The

word Sura also can be dissolved to mean Giver (Ra) of Plenty (Su); Sura

therefore stands for

a person of extreme charity .The Lord, Eesvara, who prompts and fulfils the

loving

kindness of all charitable men, is Suresvarah, Lord Vishnu.

 

287. Aushadham -Medicine. Narayana is the Divine Medicine for the immediate cure

for all

the burning sorrows of Samsar. Even to consider it more directly as the specific

cure for all

bodily ailments is not necessarily wrong, for ailments of the body are caused by

mental

disintegration, and when the inner man has surrendered in devotion to Him, Lord

Narayana indeed becomes a specific cure for even all the physical diseases of

His

devotees. In MahAbhArata we have " devA devarshayaScaiva yam viduh duhkha

bheshajam " -The gods and the celestial sages know Him to be the remedy for

distress -

Santiparva 79-22.

 

288. Jagatassetuh -A reclamation bund thrown across waters connecting distant

islands to

the main land is called Setu. Sri Rama built one and reached Lanka. The term

Jagatassetuh,

therefore, implies that the Lord is Himself the Bridge over which one can safely

cross over

the realm of egocentric imperfections and reach the joyous realms of the

Infinite

Perfection. Brh. Up says " esa setur vidharana esam lokanam asambhedaya – He is

verily the

setu, the bund, that saves the worlds from the chaos of intermingling.

 

289. Satyadharmaparaakramah -One who champions heroically for Truth (Satya) and

Righteousness (Dharma). It can also imply as One who has Truthfulness (Sat yam),

Righteousness (Dharma) and Heroism (Paraakramah). In short, Lord is One, who

fights

constantly against the false and the unrighteous to establish Truth and Purity.

Krishnarpanamastu!!