Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 91)

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 91)

The Lord is the greatest Yogī and serves as the Lord of all yogīs. Now, the meaning of the word yogī isn’t clear. It could either be someone who performs yoga or has a lot of knowledge or can be some one who meditates above all things wordly. It is for the wise to deduce the right meaning

भारभृत कथितो योगी योगीशः सर्वकामदः  |

आश्रमः श्रमणः क्षामः सुपर्णो वायुवाहनः ||

 

bhārabhŗt kathito yogī yogīśah sarvakāmadah

āśramah śramaņah kshāmah suparņo vāyuvāhanah

bhārabhŗt

The One Who carries the weight of the Earth in the form of ādiśeśa, kūrma etc

kathitah

The One Who is declared by the Vedas as the supreme, the most auspicious

yogī

The One Who establishes His ātman in His ātman, He is yogī

yogīśah

The One Who is the Lord of the yogīs

sarvakāmadah

The One Who fulfils all desires

āśramah

The One Who is the shelter for those who are wandering the thick jungle of samsāra

śramaņah

The One Who causes grief to adhārmic beings

kshāmah

The One Who causes such beings to decay in their own sins

suparņah

The One Who likes the auspicious leaf of tulasi

vāyuvāhanah

The One Who makes the wind blow as He rides on garuda that moves faster than the wind

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Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 90)

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 90)

The beauty of the irony used in the names aņurbŗhat captures my mind just like the very feeling of His Highness Lord Vishņu. Once He is called as the minute atom (aņuh) while in the very next name He becomes the ever expanding gigantic form of the universe (bŗhat). Similarly in the next two names also the reader will find this ironic situation. Such is the might of Our dear Lord of Vaikuntha, All hail GOVINDA GOVINDA!

Lord Vishnu is the atom (anuh) as well as the ever expanding universe (brihat)

अणुरबृहत् कृशः स्थूलो गुणभ्रीनिर्गुणो महान |

अध्रितः स्वध्रितः स्वास्यः प्रान्ग्वंशो वंशवर्धनः ||

 

aņurbŗhat krśah sthūlo gunabhŗnirguņo mahān

adhŗtah svadhŗtah svāsyah prāngvamśo vamśavardhanah

aņuh

The One Who is the smallest unit of everything, that is, atom

bŗhat

The One Who is gigantic and ever growing

krśah

The One Who can become so tiny that He can enter a stone

sthūlah

The One Who is stout and can accommodate millions of universes within Him

gunabhŗt

The One Who is the bearer of the three guņas, that is, sattva (goodness/divine), rajas (passion/luxurious) and tamas (ignorance/downtrodden)

nirguņah

The One Who is quality-less, that means He is so much above all these things that He cannot be defined by any quality

mahān

The One Who is the greatest

adhŗtah

The One Who supports everything including the earth

svadhŗtah

The One Who is supported by His own glorious self

svāsyah

The One Whose face is as beautiful as the moon and the lotus flower

prāngvamśah

The One Whose dynasty has been existing since everything began

vamśavardhanah

The One Whose dynasty, glory and form are ever expanding

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Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 89)

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 89)

Very pleasantly are the entangled relationship of The Lord and the number 7 explained here in these names. The first four names deal with 7 (sapta). We also note that Lord’s names show characteristics of Sūryadeva. In the final two names He is portrayed as the creator as well as the destroyer of fear for different kinds of people (adhārmic and dhārmic)

सहस्रार्चिः सप्तजिव्हः सप्तैदा: सप्तवाहनः |

अमुर्तिर्नघो अचिन्त्यो भयकृत भयनाशनः ||

 

sahasrārchih saptajivhah saptaidāh saptavāhanah

amūrtiranagho achintyo bhayakŗt bhayanāśanah

sahasrārchih

The One Who is has the capacity of a thousand suns, He is the source of the sun’s light & energy

saptajivhah

The One Who has seven tongues, they are, kālī (black), karalī (terrific), manojava (fluttering as the mind), sulohitā (red), sudhumravarņa (purple), sphulinginī (sparkling) and viśvaruchih (of universal form)

saptaidāh

The One Who has seven kinds of flames which are forms of His tongue. The agni (fire) is able to burn down the seven planetary systems at the time of pralaya

saptavāhanah

The One Who rides on a seven-horsed vehicle, Sūryadeva or the Sun god is known to ride a seven-horsed vehicle and from what we have read in the previous lines we can wonder whether Lord Sūrya and Lord Vishņu are being used here interchangeably. Ofcourse, Everything is a manifestation of the Lord, even Sūrya

amūrtirh

The One Who has no physical form

anaghah

The One Who is devoid of sadness or sin

achintyah

The One Who cannot be thought of

bhayakŗt

The One Who creates fear in the minds and lives of those who do not follow the path of dharma

bhayanāśanah

The One annihilates the fear in the minds and lives of those who are steadfastly following rules 

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Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 88)

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 88)

Lord Vishņu is touted as a root that grows both above and below in the following stanza and such a tree which has no limitations set by time

सुलभः सुव्रतः सिद्धः शत्रु जिछ्चात्रुतापनः |

न्याग्रोधोदुम्बरो अश्वथः चाणुरान्द्रनिशूधनः ||

 

sulabhah suvratah siddhah śatrujichchatrutāpanah

nyagrodhodumbaro aśvathah chāņurāndraniśūdanah

sulabhah

The One Who is easily available by giving leaves, flowers and fruits

suvratah

The One Who is of excellent oath

siddhah

The One Who is firm and existing independently

śatrujit

The One Who conquers all His enemies

śatrutāpanah

The One Who vanquishes enemies of demigods

nyagrodhah

The One Who grows downwards and fills the root of everything

udumbarah

The One Who nourishes the world with food

aśvathah

The One Who is the eternal tree with roots above and below and Whose existence is not ruled or barred by time

chāņurāndraniśūdanah

The One Who slayed an asura called chāņura from āndhra desa

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