STANZA -3 , VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA  : 3

 

Yogo yogavidam neta

Pradhanapuruses varah

Narasimhavapuh sriman

Kesavah purusottamah

 

Word meaning :

 

Yogah                             Synthesis

Yogavidam                      Among those who follows synthesis

Netha                              Leader

Pradhanah                       Primordial substance

Purusheswarah                The Lord of persons

Narasimhavapuh              The one with the body of the man-lion

Sriman                               The Lord of splendour

Kesavah                            The Lord with hair

Purushottamah                   The  first person among the three layers of

personality

 

 

MEANING  :

 

He is synthesis and the foremost leader among those who knows synthesis.He is

the primordial substance as well as the Lord of person.He is the one who wears

the body of man-lion.He is the Lord of splendour, who grows the worlds as his

hair . He is the first person among the three layers of personality

 

EXPLANATION  :

 

1 .  Yoga is the awareness of the synthesis of all planes of consiousness

experienced by the individual.The practice of yoga is to achieve this end.The

one who is drawn to this  practice gets his drive from the Lord Himself.

 

2 . For  the above reason the Lord is the  leader of those who practice yoga.The

disciple who gets the highest realization of yoga is identified in his

consciousness with his guru  

Who is  in his turn   identification   with the Lord himself    in all  respect.

 

3 .  Pradhana is the primortadial substance which decends into three-fold nature

with the help of  the activity of divine thought. Primordial substance and

divine thought manifest periodically from the one existence eternal. They form

the parents of the whole creation including Prakriti which comes down as the

triangle of the three qualities.Pradhana is called Moola prakriti [ basic nature

] by the Sankhyas and Aditi by the Vedic seers.It is the first manifestation of

the lord. It takes the first stir of creation after manifestation of the Lord .

It takes the first stir of creation after a stillness of all the universe in a

slumber of equilibrium to themselves on the background of the higher

consiousness of the one existence .

 

4 .  The personality of every individual has his synthesis in the soul

consiousness and the spark of spirit within .This unit of soul and  spirit

serves as the Lord or the Master of the personality which contains the mechanism

of psychology and intelligence.

 

5 .  The Lord once came down in the body of man with a lion¢s head when he

wanted to kill agreat demon Hiranyakasipu to save Prahlada, the son of the demon

and who was a great devotee. The manifestation of a human body with  a lion¢s

head was only to prove the possibility of His descent in any form or in any

combination in the biological kingdom .

 

6 .  The mantram Sree invokes wealth and splendour .It denotes the qualitative

aspect of the whole creation.Sree is described as the female aspect of the Lord

Himself.In one capacity she is described as His queen taking her abode in his

heart and making her manifestation on his chest.The light of the sun¢s rays and

the glitter of gold are described as the glory of the Mother Goddess.The Lord is

invoked along with her to make the meditation complete.

 

7 .  The whole of the cosmic consiousness is to be invoked as the One Person

growing the various layers of the universes as his own hairs on the head and

along the pores of the body.

 

8 .        The spiritual anatomy of the ancient seers explains the existence of

the three layers of personality of the Lord in us and in every atom of the

universe.

 

              A,    The personality which undergoes transformation .

 

B.          The personality beyond transformation.

 

              C      The background of the above two.

 

All the beings of creation belong to the personality of transformation.The

dweller in them is beyond transformation.The background of both is the beyond

transformation.The background of both is the Lord of all Lords.He is called the

first person¢ I AM¢.The fifteenth chapter of Bhagavadgita  explains this in

detail.

 

COURTESY- MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A