STANZA-14 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-14

sarvagah sarvavidbhanur

visvakseno janardanah

vedo vedavidavyango

vedango vedavit kavih

 

(Sarvagah) = He pervades all                           

 (Sarvavit) = He knows all   

 (Bhanuh) = Brilliant as His own rays   

          ,                      .                      .

(Visvaksenah) = The leader of the army of the universe

 

jana rdanah) = He eats away all the beings in  his manifestation as time  

 

   (Vedah) = wisdom   

(Vedavit) = one who knows the wisdom

(Avyangah) = the one without any defective

limb                                                

(Vedangah) = the owner of the limbs of wisdom

  (Vedavit) = the knower of scriptures   

 (Kavih) = the prophet poet  

 

  

MEANING:

 

Invoke the Lord as the all pervading, all knowing and the one brilliant as his

own rays. He is the leader of the armies of the universe and He eats everyone

into Him since He is also time. He is the wisdom, the knower of wisdom without

any

defective limb since He is the Lord of the limbs of wisdom. He is the knower of

the scriptures as well as the prophet poet who composes them.

.. Explanation :

1. The presence of the Lord pervades each unit space and time. It pervades each

unit counterpart of the atom. The presence of the different states of existence

like matter, force, life, consciousness etc., are all due to the folds of

ignorance and the layers of iimitation in the cognizance of the individual

consciousness. The difference between the dynamic and the static states, the

living and the non-living, the conscious and the unconscious are ap due to the

various layers that are objective. The Lord exists as the one subjective

presence of all these and hence, He is the Lord who pervades. 

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2 He.starts as the observer consciousness on the plane of objectivity and hence,

He plays the role of the ignorant one who starts His journey of unfoldment in

the living beings. This goes on until He expands into the comprehension of the

cosmic and supra-cosmic expanses. Thus the Lord is the omniscient one, who knows

everYthing before the beginning and who goes on knowing everything as an

individual.

 

3. If we observe a sun-globe, we find that His brilliance is due to his own

presence as his rays. The same is the case with the comprehension of everyone of

us. The brilliance of comprehension is limited by the concept of the individual

while the brilliance goes on expanding the concept as the urge of   knowing and

realising the unknown until the limitation of the concept breaks " and gives way

to the conte~t as the one all-brilliance.

 

4. The devas of one universe stand in a beaUtiful arrangement both in position

and in work. The intelligences and the energy centres that manifest from these

devas also stand in a pre-arranged discipline and order which keeps the ultimate

fitness of things in the pattern. This order and discipline is manifesting

itself through the pattern of the solar system in the atom with the solar

precision of the year as well as the atomic structure and number. All these

things reveal that there is a particular manifestation of the Lord as the

Commandant GeneraJ with all the devas as his armies. Such a one is called

VishvaksentJ in the Vaishn.ava symbolism. He is said to hold the rod in his hand

and lead the armies through channellised patterns to form the defence line of

the Lord's kingdom. In the Saiva symbolism, He is called Subrahmanya, the first

Kumara who holds Sakti (power) as his weapon and leads the armies of gods.

 

5. Time is the one which dissolves forms and incidents. After everything has

served its purpose as a time-marker it will work oUt its own removal from form

and existence. This is done by virtue of the time-sense through it. Just as we

remove everything to its original place from the table after the dinneI is

finished, everyone in the universe is dissolved into the background from its own

place temporarily decided. This is one of the properties of time which works out

only through the individual. The winding up of great institutions, the breaking

up of empires and governments and the individual deaths on the physicaJ plane

are all affected by this manifestation of the Lord as time.

 

6. One unit breath of the whole cosmos holds all the array of its own detail as

one unit of wisdom which is probed into by the individuals according to the

permitted windows of oomprehension. This un~t of the whole wisd.om of the cosmos

is called Veda in Sanskrit. It is verily the photograph of the Lord Himself

 

 

7. The knower of the Veda is also the Lord Himself in the guise of an individual

unfolding into the total pattern. For this reason, it is understood in the

Indian tradition that there is no difference in quality between the Lord and a

Brahmin who knows the Veda in its true sense.

 

 

8. The limbs of an individual are his own counterparts. The Lord in every one of

us is a unit Lord who is provided with a complete set of all the limbs to

develop. Though sometimes the actions of the lower natUre may render the

physical development of the limb defective, any creature is never created

defective of the potential mechanism of the limbs, Above the etheric plane, the

body of every individual is perfect and without any defect. For all the beings

well-behaved, the same perfection holds. good with the manifestation of the

physical limbs also. Perfection of manifestation is one of the splendours of the

Lord.

         9. The cosmic wisdom has six keys which work as the limbs of the whole

pattern. They are :

(I) Chandas, the periodicity and the ryrhm of the  universe expressed in terms

of time and space.

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(II) Kalpa or the practical detail of one unit creation as it is worked. out in

the form of a ritUal by the creator. A knowledge of these two branches give us

the measures of time and space that are revealed through the ancient scriptUre.

It is said that the whole expanse of creation  is having divisions of its active

and passive phases expressed as the day and night ofBrahma. The day is composed

of one thousand .divine years and is sub­divided into manvantaras each having

seventyone Mahayugas. The detail of all this is called Kalpa or the practical

unit ~f the total formula of creation worked out by creator as the grand ritual.

(III) Vyakarana The cosmic grammar which gives the utterence of the whole

creation as the one sentence with its subject, predicate and object as the

three­fold manifestation of the Lord Himsel£

(IV) Siksha or the process of utterence through the power of sound which we call

OM.

(V) fyotisha or the phenomenon of light and its splendours. This is understood

in terms of astronomy and astrology which is of a superior nature when compared

with the present mitigated understanding of astrology and astronomy.

(VI) Nirukta or the meaning of words as a key to the cosmic wisdom. ..

 

All these six limbs of wisdom develop from the one embryo of wisdom who is the

Lord Himself, in His creative aspect. There are books in the various languages

which counterfiet the names of these branches but they are the partially copied

passages from the pages of the cosmic wisdom torn by each scholar according to

his own blind spots of comprehension.

 

11. Similarly we find the literary counterparts of the cosmic wisdom which we

call the scriptures of the world. The Vedic text as well as any other scripture

is a literary photograph of the vedic wisdom that exists on the cosmic plane.

For this reason the texts of the vedas are also honoured as the exhalation of

the Lord Himsel£

 

12. The word Kavi in Sanskrit means a poet in its ordinary sense. But when used

in the Vedas and allied scriptUres it means the sun-god who is the seer of the

whole universe. He is said to have a continuous, instentaneous glance of the

whole universe by the power of his rays of illumination. He is further described

as the poet who utters the splendours for the whole creation by the powers of

his own imagination and description as a poet. He is also described as the

prophet who prophesies the occurances of one spell of creation.      

 

COURTESY- MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A                                                                      \

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