STANZA -21 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-21

 

 maricirdamano hamsah suparno bhujagottamah

hiranyanabhah sutapah padmanabhah prajapatih

 

 

Word Meaning :

 

Marichih  =  The light that shines in darkness

 

Damanah =  One who controls

 

Hamsah =  The great swan [ the song of breath ]

 

Suparnah =  The bird with good wings: [Garuda],The great eagle

 

Bhujagottamah = The greatest serpent [Ananta ]

 

Huranyanbhah =  The one with a golden navel

 

Sutapah =  Good penance

 

Padmanabhah =  The one having a lotus in navel

 

Prahapatih =  The progenitor and the protector.

 

 

MEANING :

 

         Mediate the Lord as the Light that shines through darkness

and the Light that manifests as self-control.Know Him as the divine

swan,breath of life,the wellwinged bird Garuda and the greatest

serpent Ananta who carries the Lord and the universe.Also know Him as

the Lord with golden navel.the form of good penance,the lotus-navelled

one and the progenitor and protector of beings.

 

Explanation :

 

 

1.      Marichi is one of the seven lights who makes their manifestation in

the beginning of the creation.These lights are called the seven great

rishis.They preside over the spectroscopy of the rays of our sun.

 

2.      The higher instinct to have control over the mind and the senses is

the effect of the Lord’s presence.

 

3.      The divine swan is the one which bestows upon us the power to

discriminate things eternal from the manifestations of a fleeting

nature .It is described as a bird which separates milk from

water,takes in milk and leaves water.It is another form of ‘’soham’’,

the song which is the breath of life.It is the mantram which makes the

vital    force pulsate to produce  our respiration.

 

4.      Suparna is the great eagle-god who carries the Lord on his back in

the form of a globe containing ambrosia.He denoted the activity of the

cerebro-spinal pulsation that conducts the heart beat and looks to the

welfare of the breath upto the tip of the nose.The mystery that exists

in the heart and makes the tip of the nose inhale is the ambrosia

which makes us live on this earth as beings.For this reason,Gruda is

represented by along nose resembling the beak of the eagle with its

inward curve.

 

5.      Ananta or Adisesha,the first or the eternal serpent has the Lord

slumbering in the muse of yogic consciousness amidst the coils of the

serpentine body.Lord Vishnu,the Lord of pervasion sleeps in the bed of

the body of Adisesha floating on the waves of the ocean of

eternity.Also the great serpent bears the burden of the whole earth on

the hood of his thousands heads.He is infact the great serpent is the

formula of the whole creation as the pontential or the coiled coil of

the Lord consciousness on the oneside and the totality of all the

forms of the universe on the other side.While the great serpent

represents the potential aspect of the Lord’s presence.The pair is in

fact the transcendence and the immanence of the Lord co-existing as

the created beings

 

6.      The golden navel means the self-luminous golden egg of Brahma’s

manifestation in its beginning.It makes its appearance as the

whirlpool of stardust on the background of the great deed which of the

Lord.

 

7.      The firy aspiration is created from a solar system down to an ego

of the individual.It causes the urge to do penance in the hearts of

the human beings of this earth.Hence the urge is one form of the Lord.

 

8.      Lotus is an ever unfolding principle of space as its contents.It

indicates the next stage, of the whirlpool.From this lotus,the Lord

makes his appearance as the Brahma,the four-faced creator along with

His creation,For this reason,the great Lord is described as slumbering

in the serpent with an unfolding lotus in his navel.

 

9.      The prajapatis are the sons of theBrahma who were born as the

second set of his children.The first set are the Kumaras who represent

the existence of the spiritual intelligences of this creation form and

matter, who reproduce the whole creation every moment. Hence they are

the forms of the Lord Himself

 

COURTESY MASTER E.K

 

 

Regards

Bharathi.A