STANZA -18 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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Word Meaning :

 

Vedyah - the knowable

 

Vaidyah - the healer

 

Sada yogi - yogi forever

 

Madhavah - dear husband of the Goddess of splendour

 

Madhuh - embodiment of sweetness

 

Atindriyah - one who transcends the senses and one who is beyond the

comprehension of the senses

 

Mahamayah - the great illusion

 

Mahotstahah - the great fondness

 

Mahabalah - the great strength

 

MEANING:

 

Invoke the Lord as the knowable and the healer; as the yogi forever

and the one who strikes down great heroes in war; as the dear husband

of the Goddess of splendour and as the very embodiment of sweetness.

The Lord transcends the senses and is beyond the comprehension of

senses. He is also the great illusion, the great fondness and the

great strength that leads the beings of creation.

 

Explanation :

 

1. Everyone has something knowable according to his own degree of

comprehension. This goes on increasing as the individual unfolds into

knowledge and hence, it leads him on unto perfection which is the

experience of the presence of the Lord everywhere through eternity.

This capacity is one form of the grace of the Lord and hence, He is

the knowable.

 

2. The Lord heals the defects of the body by revealing the science of

medicine. He heals the man, by rev~aling the path of yoga. Through the

incidents occuring to everyone according to his past deeds, everyone

gains in experience and goes on rectifying himself Hence the Lord is

the healer of all in the form of the result of one's own karma.

 

3. The Lord consciousness in everyone keeps all the vehicles in

synthesis which we call life. Hence, the Lord is the power of

synthesis which is yoga itself When anyone is ready to appreciate this

synthesis and practise yoga, he finds a yogi to guide him as his own

guru. This occurs unfailingly. One yogi creates another yogi as his

disciple and the process goes on forever. Thus the Omnipresence

continues to be a yogi in the form of a relation between the Master

and the disciple. Thus the Lord is a Yogi forever.

 

4. Valour among the warriors manifests as a force which establishes

the law by destroying the enimical forces in war. Hence, the Lord is

the war-like nature among the rulers.

 

5. The Goddess of splendour manifests as the name, shape and the

beauty of everything while the Lord forms the content of it. Hence, He

is the Lord of the splendour.

 

.. 6. Everyone has his own object of sweetness which leads him from

plane to plane until he tastes the highest plane of pervasion which is

the presence of the Lord Himsel�

 

7. Since the senses are the very manifestations of the Lord through

the working of Prakriti, they caimot comprehend the Lord who is within

Him. Hence, the Lord is the comprehension beyond the sense and at the

same time, He is the object of realisation to the senses.

 

8. Just as the fabric of cloth makes us forget about the cotton with

which it is made and attracts our view away towards the utility of

cloth and its ownership etc., so also the forms and the behaviour of

the worlds make us forget about the Lord who is the content and

attract our attention away towards the relationships we establish and

the utility we work out. This quality is called mahamaya or the great

illusion which keeps the living beings interested in working out the

plan of the whole universe. It is all a play of the Lord Himsel� � � �

�.

 

9. Everyone has his own spur towards action which works as the

fondness that attracts him towards his work. It is also a play of the

Lord.

 

10. Every one has his own source of strength according to his own

concept. This sustains him and keeps him work out things that are to

be accomplished through him. It is also a play of the Lord.

 

 

COURTESY �MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A