vishnu sahasra namam, stanza-56

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STANZA-56

ajo maharhah svabhavyo jitamitrah pramodanah

anando nandano nandah satyadharma trivikramah

 

Ahah                            beyond birth

Maharhah                     fit for great adoration

Svabhavyah                  followed by his own plan of nature

Jitamitrah                      one who conquered all those who are other than

friends

Pramodanah                 Source of self-satisfaction

Ahahdah                       bliss

Nandanah                     the cause pf bliss

Nandah                        one who enjoys his own bliss

Satyadharma                one who has truth as his law

Trivikramaha                the one who has pervaded by three strides

 

Meaning:

The Lord is beyond births and is the objects of great adoration . Nature follows

him as his own plan . Anyone who   is not a friend is sure to be conquered by

Him . He is the source of satisfaction , the bliss , one who enjoys the bliss

and the one who experiences Himself as the bliss . Truth is his Law . He

pervades everything by his three strides.

 

Explanation :

1.Previously explained

 

2.Any form of worship reaches the same Lord offered in any name . Hence all the

worship of all the creatures is the one worship of the Lord . Hence he is the

object of great worship and adoration

 

3 . Nature is a manifestation from the Lord and it is periodical . The working

of nature with its chain actions form his own way of manifestation . He is the

one who manifests s nature through nature . Hence nature is his path of working

..

 

4 ..Real friendliness and companionship are divine traits . Those who have these

traits are those who follow the path of the Lord . Those who do not believe this

path will behave as something other than a friend to to others. They are surely

conquered by the Lord in the name of their own undoing . They cut themselves off

from all companionship and stand miserable and helpless , when they are forced

to think of God in the name of help.

 

5 .Any thing which is the object of self-satisfaction is a form of the grace of

the Lord .

6 .Ananda or bliss is the state of absolute poise in cosmic consciousness . It

is the true perception of the existence of God .

7 .8 .The one who experiences bliss  as well as the object get merged in one

another and stand as one in the priess of experiencing bliss . hence the object,

subject and the process are the three simultaneous of the same Lord .

9 .Absolute truth is law of existence of the whole universe . At this point,

truth and law get identified with one another .

10 .As the dwarf Vamana, the Lord could occupy the whole creation with his three

steps and took it away from the great  emperor Bali . The allegory describes how

the Lord allows the ego to develop and comprehend its own environment as

belonging to itself . Then the Lord consciousness  replaces the sense of

possessiveness of the ego  . This is because the Lord pervades the whole

universe as His three strides, matter , force and consciousness that are know by

the three mantras , Bhooh, bhuvah and suvah.

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A