STANZA-35 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-35

 

acyutah prathitah pranah pranado vasavanujah

apannidhradhisthan amapramattah pratisthitah

 

Achyutah One who has no slips and fall

Prathitah The well known

Pranah Life and pulsation

Pranadah Thegiver of life

Vasavnujah The younger brother of Indra

Apamnidhih The treasure house of water  

Adhistanam the seat to acquire

Apramattah Who has no unawareness

Pratistitah One who is made is made stable

 

MEANING :

 

Meditate theLord as the one who has no slip and fall.He is the most popularized

and well-known one, thevery life and the life giver of all.He is the younger

brother of Indra, the abode of water and the one to be attached .He is never

unware of anything and hence he is the one who is established.

 

EXPLANATION :

 

1. Slip and fall occur due to error in procedure which is human and never

divine.Since the Lord isan embodiment of continuous awareness in others , he has

no slip though others sometimes may have due to their own unwareness towards

Him.

 

Since the Lord is all,and everyone knows something or other in this world, the

Lord is by all individuals  as their own branch of individual knowledge and

Hence He is the one known by all.Gradually this knowledge of the one or many

others things in the world leads beings to a knowledge of his omnipresence.

 

Life is the one which visits bodies tochoose them as its own abodes.It again

leaves the bodies  when the purpose is over.Hence it is the one form of the

Lord  who visits all and leaves all.Others are forms and life is the in-filling

presence which lives in forms.It is also the vital pulsation that makes its

appreance and disappreance in the very space.This cosmic pulsation causes the

pulsation of respiration and heart- beat in us which is the sign of life. Hence

the Lord is the very life of the whole universe and each individual.

 

He is also the giver of life to the forms since He is the one who proposes to

fill them with life.Bodies coming into life can never be caused by individual

since the causation is due to the presence of the Lord as the vital

awareness.Sometimes there areindividuals who give us life by saving us from 

great danger like disease and catastrophy.Once again, the presence of the Lord

is to be collected in them as the cause of their saving us.Honour them , as a

token of gratitude  and you are honouring the Lord as the cause of your safety

 

As the incarnation of Vamana the Lord is born as an younger brother of

Indra.Both areborn to the same parents kasyapa [thevault of heaven] and Aditi

[the primordial matter].Vamana came down to earth to restore the kingdom of Gods

from Bali toIndra and also to restore the eternal kingdom of his own presence

upon Bali

 

The electricity in space is the abode  of water in all the three states:

steam,water, and ice. Vidyuth, the electric fire in space, synthesizes and

analyses waters to creat and destroy.The Lord is thus the abode of waters when

he works as the creator and destroyer of the world.The formation of ocean  on

this earth and the clouds in the heaven is also a play of the Lord as abode  of

the waters.

 

Space is the seat to be acquired by the beings created from space.Hence the Lord

is the abode of beings as well as the attainment of the various stages of 

creation and realization.Everything lives in Him even after created and hence

the Lord is the real acquisition of all.The imaginary things acquired and

possessed by beings are also the various presence  of Lord in their true

existence.

 

If we observe the workings of nature and creation, we see no error in any

step.Error is characteristic of the mind of the created beings especially the

humanbengs. In nature, everthing abides the law while  manifesting the

properties of matter,force,mind and space.This is due to the presence of the

Lord  as the awareness in all.Even in us,he  is aware as the indercurrent of our

consciousness [Gaytri] which guides us to perfection through our errors and

falls.

 

Everyone tries to established  his own concepts,beliefs and ideals.Eveyone

tries to prove the validity of what he knows as knowledge. Thus everyone tries

to establish the Lord's presence in the form of his own knowledge.Hence the

Lord  is the one who is established and stablished by all.

 

courtesy-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A