VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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479. A-Sat -The Conditioned; Limited; the One who appears at this

moment as the limited, conditioned, and therefore confined only to the

world of plurality. That which actually is not, but apparently seems to

be there, is called a delusion and this is indicated by the word " A-

Sat. " In the Vedantic terminology, higher-Self (Param) is ever

Immutable and Eternal, while the lower-Self (A-param) constituted of

all the universe of manifested things and beings, is mutable and

ephemeral. Sri Narayana Himself is, in His Apara nature, expressing as

the world of the many that we today recognise around us. Bhagavan Sri

Krishna confesses to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Geeta: " Arjuna, I am at

once immortality and mortality. I am both existence and non-existence. "