STANZA -32 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-32

 

bhutabhavybhavannathah

pavanah pavano -analah

kamaha kamakrt-kantaha

kamah kamapradah prabhuh

 

Word Meaning :

 

Bhuta-Bhavya-Bhavat – Past,future and present

 

Nathah – Lord

 

Pavanah – The air that purifies

 

Analah – Fire

 

Kamah – Cupid himself

 

Kampradah – One who causes desire

 

Prabhuh  - Lord

 

Meaning

 

   Meditate the Lord as the one who rules over the past,present and future, as

the very air that purifies and   as the pure one himself.Meditate also as the

fire, the purest of all things.Meditate Him as the creator and the fire, the

purest of all things.Meditate Him as the creator and the destroyer of Cupid, as

Cupid himself who is the beloved of all.He is the cause of all desires by which

he says the whole creation as the Lord.

 

EXPLANTION :

 

Our past,present andfuture  are inter-twined as a continuous whole  which is

the product of our liking  and our own doing.Our own liking is dur to our own

separate existence away from the awareness of the omni-presence of the Lord.In

such a state,our consciousness is called the ego which is the Cupid of the

poetic imagery in the puranas.

 

       It is a necessary limitation to conduct the drama of our experience

th stages of creation which is in no way different from our experience of the

various aspects of the Lord. He becomes many as ourselves and conducts the play

of thecreation of our life incidence .In such a capacity the Lord gives birth to

Cupid and hence Visnu is the father of Cupid.TheLor makes our third eye[ the

divine discrimination called yoga] opened in course of time and burns  Cupid to

ashes, in his capacity as Siva.Before that Cupid gives us desire and he is the

most beautiful and the most beloved of all of us.We love each other without

being aware of the presence of the Lord in us .Then we beign to like each other

and desire very much for the presence of our beloved ones.This is all the play

of cupid who is no other than ego- consciousness in us. He is described   as

the  great  warrior who vanquishes everyone with his five arrows[our five

senses]

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

 

Regards

Bharathi.A