STANZA-45 VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM

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STANZA-45

rtuh sudarsanah kalah paramesthi parigrahah

ugrah samvtsaro dakso visramo visvadaksinah

 

Rtuh-The Lord of seasons

Sudarsanah-The great wheel

Kalah-Time

Paramesti-The one who is the form of the grand sacrifice(the creation)

Parigrahah-that which clings to us

(the result of Karma in the form of what we have in this life)

Ugrah-ferocious

Samvatsara-the year

Daksah-One prajapathi who is the able one

Visramah-relaxation

Visvadaksinah-One who has the whole universe as his offering in the sacrifice

 

MEANING

 

Meditate the Lord as the cycle of seasons, the wheel which destroys the demons,

the time which revolves as the detail of the year and the great sacrifice which

we call the creation.He is the form of that which clings to us as the result of

our karma.He is ferocious in killing the demons and the very manifestation of

the Prajapathi,Daksha,who is the able one.He also manifests as our leisure and

as the whole universe in the form of his offering in his sacrifice.

 

EXPLANATION

 

1.The seasonal effects which follow the division of two months each are called

the ruthus or the seasons.They are six in number.

a.Vasanta (the spring)

b.Greeshma (summer)

c.Varsha (the rainy season)

d.Sarat (the moon season)

e.Hemanta (the season of snow)

f.Sisira(the season of leaf fall)

Each season governs the effects upon the various beings of the earth and

represents one form of the Lord.

2,3.Already explained.

4.Paramesti : Virat is the form of the Lord which is the totality of the details

of the creation.It is the form of the sacrifice of the Lord in which he

sacrifies Himself into the various forms.

5.Already explained

6.Ugraha : When the killing of demons is included, He is the most fierce in His

expression of the incarnation.Nrisimha who killed the demon Hiranyakasipu with

his claws ina most fierce way is an example.

7Already explained.

8.Already explained

9.As leisure , the Lord replenishes the beings with rest and life.

10.In the form of Virat who is the Lord of the whole creation as his sacrifice,

he offers himself as the spur of each living being. He makes this offers as his

offering to every living being by way of distributing himself as his own wealth.

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

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Bharathi.A