Vishnu sahasra namam stanza-54

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STANZA-54

somapo mrtapah somah purujitpurusattamh

vinayo jayah satyasandho dasarhah satvatam patih

 

Somapah=one who drinks the juice of Soma

Amrtapah=One who drinks Amrita

Somah=the name of a musical god (Gandharva)

Purujit=successful repeatedly

Purusattamah=thegreatest and the best among the well-behaved ones, counted

repeatedly

Vinayah=humility

Jayah=Success

Satyasandhah=One who is wedded to truth

Dasarhah=belonging to the clan of dasarhas

Sattvatam=among the descendants of Saattvata

Patih=the protector and the Lord

MEANING :

Meditate theLord as the one who performs sacrifice and drinks there by the sap

of Soma and Amrtha . He is the one who is repeatedly successful and the one

gentleman who is born as the best among the human beings repeatedly . Humility

and success are his manifestation .He is wedded to truth and is born as the

chief of the clan of Dasarhas and the descendants of Saattvata

EXPLANAION:

1.The Soma-sacrifice is the greatest of all the Vedic rites. It includes

drinking the juice of herb, which enables one to taste the sap of his own

existence by consecrating his consciousness,word, thought  and identified to

Indra, the Lord of all these.

2.Amritha is the spirit of immortality that is experienced by the devas as their

food. Since the devas work as principles in the bodies and the universes and

since they do not themselves live in matter, mind of form, they have neither

birth nor death. Instead, they have manifestation and disappearance. Hence their

existence is immortality is the Lord Himself.

3.Soma is The name of a planet . The name of a Gandharva who presides over the

cosmic rhythm of music that causes the emerging and merging of the

universe.Among the individuals, he presides over the sense of periodicity,

frequency and beat . The faculty of music is governed by him along with Indra.

Both of them are located for their functions in the penial gland.Among the

planetary gods,he is the same who is known as Neptune in the mythology as well

as astrology. In the Vedas,he is known as the Lord of  aesthetic sense and

romance, whose influence is reflected upon the beings of the earth through the

Moon.

4.The cause of success is the set of virtues required and they are the

manifestation of the Lord Himself. ‘’I am the virtue in the virtuous,’’

says the Lord in Bhagavadgita, Chapter10.Thus success is being borne repeatedly

as successful beings who lay the law on earth.

5.The well behaved ones are the manifestations of the behaviour which is the

manifestation of the Lord. Hence the Lord stands as good behaviour beyond all

those who behave well.

6.Humility is the real cause of success and it is a form of the

Lord.Truthfulness is also one of his forms and all those who are wedded to truth

in their behaviour are the very manifestations of the Lord.

7.Dasrha is the name of a Sub-province and a particular clan among the Yadus who

belong to the place.Lord Krishna is a descendant of the clan.

8.Saattvata is one of the fore-father of Krishna . His descendants are also

called Saattvatas.Spiritually speaking Sattva is the quality of equilibrium and

poise and Krishna is a manifestation of that  quality . Hence he is called the

Lord  proctector of Saattvatas.

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A