VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM.STANZA-58

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STANZA-58

Maha-varaho govindah sushenah kana-kangadee |

Guhyo gabheero gahano gupta-shchakra gadadharah ||

  

Mahavarahah                the great boar

Govindah                      one who is attained as the

light of the senses

Susenah                        one who has good number of

armies

Kanakangadi                one who has gold jewellery

Guhyah                         one who is concealed and

to be sought

Gabhirah                      one who is deep

Gahanah                       difficult to comprehend

Guptah                         kept as a secret,preserve

Cakragadadharah         one who wears the wheel and the mace

 

MEANING :

The Lord who is to be meditated as the great boar haying the wheel and the mace

in the hands, followed by armies and decorated by jewellery all in gold is the

one who is deep, concealed , diffcult to understand and is to be sought after

through meditation as the light of the sense.

 

EXPLANATION:

1.The great boar is the Avathar that lifted the whole globe of objectivity from

under the ocean of subjectivity on top of its tusks .Since the boar lifted the

whole creation into existence, it can be meditated as the great one, whose size,

volume and possibility cannot be completed.

2.The prefix ‘ ‘ go  ‘ ‘ in the word Govinda signifies the senses of a

being and the rays of light and the path of planets in the solar system. Govinda

literally means the one who is obtained through the path of the light of senses.

In the stages of passive objectivity, the senses perceive the versatility of the

world.When the Lord is meditated as form , light ,name,sound, colour,meaning

etc. , and when the Lord is recollected in every  piece of objectivity, then

the mind and the senses find their light.This, when followed, will be found as

the presence of the Lord.

3.The good number of armies of the Lord are the number gods and those who

springs up from them to make the creation created. The term also means good

armies to signify that they are not armies of battle but are those of the poise

between the emerging and merging of creation.

4.Gold is a physical plane symbol of the light of the Lord’s grace which we

call his brilliance, golden yellow, a ray of which is seen as the splendour of

the Sun-globe.The Lord’s form and frame are made up of only his light. Hence

the parts of his body shine with the units of his light that go all the way to

decorate him with his own form.

5.Every time we return to objectivity from the meditation of his presence, we

once again feel his  absence of our perception filled with the presence of our

sense of objectivity. Hence the Lord is always concealed under form, quality and

name and is continuously sought for by the mind.

6.For the above reason, the presence of the Lord exists in his own depths of

subjectivity under his own surface of objectivity.

7.For the above reason and due to the constant escape of mind into the manyness

of objectivity throught the sense, the Lord is tought to be approached again and

again

8.For the same reasons described above, the Lord is always concealed within the

consciousness of the perceiver as  a secret well-protected by the viscosity of

one’s own presence.

9.Yet he can detected by his devotees through the sacred wheel and the mace

which stand as his weapons forever .The wheel is the ring of the horizon around

the observer and is known as ‘The good vision’(su-darsana). The mace is the

comprehension of the sun-globe and the ray of the Sun which travels from the

Sun-globe to himself.

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A