Sri Vishnu Sahasranama - Day 3

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Question 2

Kim vaapyekam paraayanam?

 

Who is the one ( " ekam " ) refuge

( " paraayanam " ) for all?

 

Paramam yo mahat-tejah

Paramam yo mahat-tapah

Paramam yo mahat-brahma

Paramam yah paraayanam.

 

 

He who is the great ( " mahat " ) effulgence ( " tejah " ); He who is the Great

controller ( " tapah " ); He who is the Supreme All-Pervading Truth; ( " brahma " ) he

who is the Highest (Param) Goal (Ayanam)-the Lord Vishnu.

 

 

Question 3

Stuvantam kam praapnuyuh (Maanavah subham)?

 

By glorifying ( " sthuvantah " ) whom ( " kam " ) can man ( " manavah " ) reach the

Auspiciousness ( " shubam " ) (peace and prosperity)?

 

Jagat-prabhum deva-devam

Anantam purushottamam

Stuvan naama-sahasrena

Purushahsatatotthitah

 

The supreme ( " uttamam " ) Purusha, who is ever up and dong for the welfare of all,

the Lord ( " prabhum " ) of the world ( " jagat " ) the endless ( " anantam " ) – Sri Maha

Vishnu.

 

 

Question 4

(Kam archantah)

praapnuyuh Maanavaah subham?

 

By worshipping ( " archantah " ) whom can a man reach auspiciousness (peace and

prosperity)?

 

Tameva cha archayan nityam

Bhaktyaa purusham avyayam

Stuvan naama-sahasrena Purushah satatthitah.

 

By meditating upon ( " sthuvan naama " ), by ( ) worshipping ( " archayan " ) and by

prostrating at the same Purusha, man can reach true Auspiciousness.

 

 

Question 5

Ko dharmah sarva-dharmaanaam Bhavatah paramo matah?

 

What ( " ko " ) is, in thy opinion, the Greatest Dharma?

 

 

Question 6

Kim japan muchyate jantuh Janma-samsaara-bandhaaat?

 

By ( " kim " ) doing japa of what can “creatures” (jantu) go beyond ( " mutchyate " )

the bonds ( " bandhanaath " ) of samsara?

 

 

Answers 5 & 6.

Anaadi-nidhanam vishnum Sarvaloka-maheshvaram

Lokaadhyaksham stuvan nityam Sarva-duhkha-atigo bhavet.

 

The greatest Dharma is the one Vishnu, who has neither a beginning (Aadi) nor an

end (Nidhanam), the supreme Lord ( " maheshwaram " ) of the world. All creatures can

go beyond the bonds of samsar, “and he goes beyond all sorrows” who daily

( " nityam " ) chants ( " stuvan " ) the sahasranaamas and within glorifies “the knower

of the world” (Lokaadhyaksha).

 

 

The supreme is described as that from which the whole world of names and forms

had risen in the beginning of the creation, that in which the world continues to

exit, that into which alone the world can merge back during the ‘Dissolution’

(Pralaya); this supreme is VISHNU.

 

 

After thus answering all questions, “His thousand Name”, said Bheeshma, “I shall

now advise you. Please listen to them with all attention”.