VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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Stanza 31

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.