Vishnusahasranama

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Sreemaan means the Self, the Lord. (221) Nyaayah -The word in its direct meaning

is “Justice”. In the spiritual world, it connotes logical arguments (Tarka) and

lines of contemplation (Yukti), which help us in arriving at the absolute

experience indicated in the Sruti, are together called Nyaaya. (222) Netaa -the

leader-one who protects, nurtures, nourishes and guides all living creatures in

the world. One who is being the Superintendent of the machinery of life

-(“Jagat-Yantra Nirvaahakah”)-Sankara. (223) Sameeranah -One who efficiently

administers all movements of all living creatures. In the physical body, all

physiological activities are controlled by the five ‘Praanaas’ and thus in the

form of ‘Praanaas’ He who governs all movements of all living creatures in the

universe is Maha Vishnu. (224) Sahasria-Moordhaa -One who has endless number of

heads. All living creatures are His manifestations and He Himself is the One who

has become the many. Therefore all heads are His, just as in a factory the

proprietor considers all the employees as his own ‘hands’. Here the term

Sahasra means innumerable. (225) Visvaatmaa -The very Soul of the universe; the

very inner Essence in all living creatures. (226) Sahasraakshah -In describing

the macro- cosmic form of the Lord we have an endorsement of this declaration

in the Bhagavad Geeta.227. Sahasrapaat -In the Purushasookta of the Rig-Veda,

the same terms are used in describing the Infinite Form of the Mighty Truth:

(“The Purusha is thousand-headed, thousand-eyed, and thousand-footed.”) The

“many heads” (224), “many

eyes” (226), “many legs” (227), together indicate that, through all these

equipments of thinking (head), of action (leg) and of perception (eyes), the

Thinker, the Doer and the Seer, the One Infinite Consciousness expresses

everywhere, in all forms, at all times, and He is Lord Vishnu.

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