VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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(200) Simhah -One who destroys. The Law be- hind all destruction and

change in the Maayaa is the Mighty Lord. On transcending the

Vehicles of the body, mind and intellect, at a time when all

experiences of perceptions, emotions and thoughts are annihilated

from us, the Experience left over is the Supreme. And in the Non-

dual Supreme, there cannot be any object other than itself.

Therefore, that " State " is called as the Total Destroyer. The State

of Waking is the " destroyer " of the dream-world; the State of Sleep

is the " destroyer " of the waking and the dream; the State of God

Consciousness is the total " Annihilator " of all the known three

planes of Consciousness. He is Simhah -a word that has been formed

by the mutual transposition of the letters in Himsaa.

 

Even taking its obvious superficial meaning Vishnu is a Lion in our

bosom, in as much as, He is the king of the forest of Samsaar: at

the roar of Narayana all the animal-passions flee from the jungles

of the mind. In the Geeta while describing His own Glory, the Lord

says, " Among the animals, I am the King of animals, Lion. " -Geeta

Ch. 10, St. 30.