VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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(170) Mahaamaayah -One who is the Supreme Master of all Maayaa. He

is the very Substratum upon which all the plurality spring up and

play their infinite enchantments, constantly basking in the Light of

the Supreme Consciousness. Aatman, the Self, is untouched by the

play of Maayaa, and yet the Maayaa-play is sustained only by the

exuberant warmth of His Divine presence. The Sun is the Master of

all clouds, inasmuch as, in its presence, borrowing its heat, water

by its own nature gets evaporated, and the water, vapour again,

because of its own nature of a lesser density than the atmospheric

air, rises to the higher altitudes and gathers there as clouds. It

is, again, the nature of the atmosphere that at higher altitudes it

is cooler and the water-vapour so cooled becomes water again, and

due to the higher density of water it descends as rain. In this

example the Sun can be called as the " Creator " of all clouds and

the " Cause for the rams, " and consequently the sun is also

the " Master of the Seasons. " And yet, the Sun is uncontaminated by

all these phenomena that are happening in its presence.

 

In the same fashion the Infinite Reality, Vishnu, is indicated here

as the Great Magician, who has the magic of Maayaa at His command.

Krishna Himself confesses in the Geeta: " Very difficult indeed it is

to cross over My Maayaa " -(Geeta Ch. 7 St. 14).