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bold;">(38) Sambhuh -He who brings Auspiciousness- both inner goodness and outer

prosperity to His devotees. Sambhuh is one of the famous names of Lord Siva. By

using this term in invoking Vishnu, by its suggestion, it declares that Vishnu

and Siva are not two Divine Entities, but they are both manifestations of the

One Essential Reality. (39) Aadityah-The Truth (Purusha) that glows with a

golden splendour in the solar orb is called Aadityah. There are twelve Aadityas

and of them One is called Vishnu. Krishna Himself declares, ‘I am Vishnu among

the Aadityas’ -Aadityaanaam Aham Vishnuh- (Geeta Ch. 10, St. 21). The word

Aaditya can mean ‘Son of Aditi’-signifying the one who was born as the son of

Aditi in His Vaamana incarnation. The term Aadityah can also mean in Sanskrit

‘One who is like the sun’. The Sun is the one who illumines all, and every

living creature draws its

nurture and nourishment directly or indirectly always from the sun alone. In the

same way Brahman is the one Sun in the universe of living creatures illumining

all experiences of all creatures. (40) Pushkaraakshah -One who has eyes like

the lotus. Joy and Peace in the bosom of an individual are expressed in the

world outside at no other point so vividly as in the eyes. The One, whose inner

peace and joy, beaming out through His eyes, bring into the devoted hearts all

the aesthetic beauty and romantic thrills of seeing a lotus dancing in the

breeze, In short, the term indicates the Lord who with His beautiful looks,

magically lifts all the sorrows in the devotee’s heart and fills it with Peace,

Joy and Perfection. (41) Mahaasvanah- One who possesses thundering voice of

compulsion: Svana means ‘sound’. One whose

‘call’ is thundered in all hearts, familiarly known as the ‘compelling whisper’

of the Higher. Or, Svanam can also mean ‘breath’; and so, the term can mean,

‘He whose great breath is the very Vedas’. “Thus, O Maitreyee, this has been

breathed forth from this great Being what we have as Rigveda. Yajurveda”

-Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad (4.4.10). In the Spiritual literature of India we

often read Vedas described as His breath; He breathed out the Vedas

(Nih-svasitam). (42) Anaadi-nidhanah –One who has neither birth (Aadi) nor

death (Nidhanum). Thus One who is changeless is Anaadi-Nidhanam; for, any

change should include the death of an old condition and the birth of newer

condition. To the Immortal and the Immutable, change is impossible. (43)

Dhaataa- One who is the Substratum for the world of names and forms. And who

supports all fields of experiences in all. He who is the

screen for the cinema of empirical experiences’ (Visvam). (44) Vidhaataa -The

One who is the Dispenser of all ‘fruits-of-actions’. In the Karma-kaanda

portion of the Vedas, Eesvara is described as the Dispenser of fruit (Karma-

phala-daataa Eesvarah). He is the Lord who is behind this universe of

scientific truths and rhythm. He is the One who has not only ordered the laws

of the nature, but he is the one afraid of whom, the phenomena dare not disobey

his laws anywhere at any time. The light of the sun, the heart is the fire, the

sweetness in the sugar, the pains in the sin and the joy s in goodness, are all

their ‘nature’ and none dare ever disobey these laws. The one who is thus the

unquestionable law behind the entire universe of laws is Vidhaata. (45)

Dhaatur-uttamah –the fundamentals that form the reinforcement on any existent

thing are called Dhaatu. In science of life, as explored by the Rishis, all

corporal forms have risen form and exist as composed of some definite

‘elemental factor’ called the Dhaatus. Of the end less varieties of Dhaatus

available in existence, the subtlest Dhaatu, without which no existence, is

ever possible, is the chit Dhaatu, and this is the Dhaatu-ruttamah. Though

very rarely, we do find some commentators splitting this word into two as

Dhaatu and uttama. But in the majority of the cases we find it taken to form

one term and explained as ‘the subtlest of the Dhaatus’. For More Information

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