Vishnusahasranama

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investigations into Truth After observing the nature and behaviour of things and

beings when the investigator moves ahead seeking the ONE Harmonious Chord of

Reality that holds all phenomena in its inescapable love-web, the scientist of

Truth-comes to reject first the gross, and soon thereafter the subtle realms,

and ultimately even the causal factors, and thus-comes to apprehend this

harmony, which he is seeking as the very subjective core of his own Self. This

final Goal to be realized, “having known which everything else becomes known,”

the One Consummate Knowledge to be gained (Vedyah), is the Self, the Great

Vishnu. (164) Vaidyah -The One Supreme Doctor who alone can minister to the

world suffering from

ego and egocentric misconceptions. One who is a master of all knowledge (Vidyaa)

is also termed as Vaidvah (165) Sadaa Yogee -To the confused and the deluded

to detach themselves from the false vestures-of-matter and to seek their

identity with the ETERNAL Self is called Yoga. All attempts in attaining an

at-one-ment with the Self is called Yoga. The Goal, the Self, therefore, in the

language of the seeker must be Sadaayoga-ever-in yoga. (166) Veerahaa –“He

who destroys the mighty heroes”. The powerful men of strength and valour when

they grow in their audacity

to become tyrants, the Lord manifests to destroy such Raakshasas and thus

protects the Dharma and the Good. (167) Maadhavah -Earlier this term was

used (72) where we interpreted the term as the “Lord of Lakshmi.” Maa means not

only “Lakshmi,” but she is also “Vidyaa” (Knowledge). The Lord (Dhava) of all

Knowledge (Maa) is Maadhava. He who helps introspection and meditation in the

seeker is Maadhava. “To become conscious of the existence of a thing” is called

the knowledge of the thing, The Aatman, the Self is Existence (Sat) and

Consciousness (Sphurana) and, therefore, Lord Vishnu, the Self is the

source of all knowledge and as such the Master of all Vidyaas: (Maa-dhava),

Harivamsa says” “O Hari, You are the Lord (Dhava) of Knowledge (Maa), and hence

You are called as Maadhava, the Master of Maa.” (168) Madhuh -The term Madhuh

familiarly stands for “honey”. It is also a term to indicate “nectar.” One who

generates Nectarine Bliss in the hearts of His devotees is called Madhuh. The

springtime in India is called as Madhumaasa since spring is the season of

flowers; full of honey for the bees, and joy for man. The month called Madhu

(March- April) is the Chaitra month which is considered specially auspicious

for prayers, and meditation. One who is of the nature of the Maadhava-maasa,

the month of Maadhava (April-May) can also be the suggestion in this term.

Vaisaakha (April-May) is considered as the most auspicious time of the year for

the worship of Vishnu by all Vaishnavites. (169) Ateendriyah -One who is

beyond the sense-organs not only in the sense, that the sense-organs cannot

perceive Him as their ‘object’ but also in the sense that He is other than the

sense-organs and their functions. Lending to them, all their very vitality, is

His mere presence! He is the very ‘subject’ in the perceiver, and, therefore,

the instruments of perceptions, emotions, and thoughts cannot experience Him:

this Source of All-life is Maha Vishnu. Kathopanishad (3-15) says: “He is

soundless, untouched, formless, immutable, so without taste, eternal,

smell-less.

!supportEmptyParas] --> (170) Mahaamaayah -One who is the Supreme Master of all

Maayaa. He is the very Substratum upon which all the plurality spring up and

play their infinite enchantments, constantly basking in the Light of the

Supreme Consciousness. Aatman, the Self, is untouched by the play of Maayaa,

and yet the Maayaa-play is sustained only by the exuberant warmth of His Divine

presence. The Sun is the Master of all clouds, inasmuch as, in its presence,

borrowing its heat, water by its own nature gets evaporated, and the water,

vapour again, because of its own nature of a lesser density than the

atmospheric air, rises to the higher altitudes and gathers there as clouds. It

is, again, the nature of the atmosphere that at higher altitudes it is cooler

and the water-vapour so cooled becomes water again, and due to the higher

density of water it descends as

rain. In this example the Sun can be called as the “Creator” of all clouds and

the “Cause for the rams,” and consequently the sun is also the “ Master of the

Seasons.” And yet, the Sun is uncontaminated by all these phenomena that are

happening in its presence. In the same fashion the Infinite Reality, Vishnu,

is indicated here as the Great Magician, who has the magic of Maayaa at His

command. Krishna Himself confesses in the Geeta: “Very difficult indeed it is

to cross over My Maayaa” -(Geeta Ch. 7 St. 14). (171) Mahotsaahah -The Great

Enthusiast; the Ever-Dynamic Accomplisher. The Powers of creation,

of sustenance and of annihilation-in their totality is the world of birth and

death that we live in. This wonderful world cannot be sustained without the

endless enthusiasm of this Mighty Power. Looking at the ocean, through the

waves, we come to recognise the ocean as the “Sleepless Agitator”; similarly,

looking at Vishnu, “through the ephimeral kaleidoscopic changes in the patterns

of life available to us in our experience today, we call Him as the “Dynamic

accomplisher” (Mahotsaahah). The term employed here, the Enthusiastic

Accomplisher, is indeed one of the most appropriate names for Maha Vishnu.

(172) Mahaabalah -One who has Supreme Strength. He, being Omnipotent, is the

Source of all Strength that we see in each individual organism in life. His

Vitality

reflected in each of us, is our individual strength; naturally He is the

Infinitely Strong, Mahaabalah. http://groups.msn.com/