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STANZA-33

yugaadi-krt yugaavarto naikamaayo mahashanah |

adrishyo vyaktarupashcha sahasrajid anandaji ||

Word Meaning :

 

Yuga vartah – The maker of thedawn of the yugas

 

Yuga vartah – Maker of the activity of the yugas as cycles

 

Neikamayah – One who presides over the various manifestations of maya.

 

Mahasanah – The paramount consumer of all.

 

Adrsyah – Cannot be made an object  of the senses

 

Avyaktarupah – The form unmanifest

 

Ca – And also

 

Sahasrajit One who overcomes by his thousand ways

 

Anantajit

 

MEANING :

 

    Meditate the Lord as themaker of the beginning and the cycles of the

yugas and the one who  manifests as, and presides over thevarious forms of

maaya. He is the paramount consumer of every thing , the one with His invisible

form which is manifest and unmanifest at the same time.He overcomes everything

in the creation by his thousands of ways with the infinite number of methods.

 

Explanation :

 

1. The whole creation is an alternation of active and passive phases called

thedays and nights of Brahma.The days are again divided into sub-period called

yugas.Each  gret yugas is subdivided into four yugas which are composed of

units containing 432 solar earth years multiplied by tens,hundreds and

thousands.The Lord presides over all these periodicities in the form of his 

omni-presence as time.

2.     Each unit of time has its own unit activity as his presence .All the

details of the above said periodicities is but a playful conditioning of his own

existence with thehelp  of his own nature

 

3 .   All this activity with its details is instantaneously wiped of into

relative nothingness on his own back ground of absolute everthing .Hence  the

Lord is the paramount consumer of all.

 

4.    Among all the forms of the creation,theLord lives as the one form

imperceptible to anyone.

  

5.    His form manifests to thosewho can see through synthesis.At the same

time, it is  unmanifest to those who see with themind and the senses

 

6 .    His maya or conditioning imbeds thecapacity to teanscend it in the

formof the secret that is concealed in the mantra ‘ ‘ Sa-ha-sra ‘ ‘.

Literally it means thousand which denotes the thousands of his forms with their

thousands of heads,feet, etc.The syllables Sa and Ha form the mantram of

respiration and the pulsation  of prans in the indicates the respiration and

the pulsation of prana in the individual as well as the cosmic scale.The

syallable ‘Sra’ indicates the respiration with the expression of thesound

manifesting the cosmic breath along with the cosmic utterance manifesting 

through the individual’s voice.It is called  Sudarsana [su darsana], the

mantra of the wheel of existence which includes the periodicities in the various

scales. It is to be meditated as the rotating wheel at the  tip of the finger

of the Lord. Those  who meditate Him like this, overcome maya by the power

conferred upon the individuals.

 

7 .    Each individual form has its own approach to meditate upon the Lord

when the individual transcends his own conditioning of maya .Hence the Lord 

presides over the infinitesimal number of ways that are used to over come maya.

 

 

COURTESY -MASTER .E.K

 

Regards

bharathi.A