Vishnusahasranama

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Creator of the Yugas, and here we are told that He is also the Power behind the

wheel of time that goes on changing and repeating itself, i.e. not only He is

the Lord of Time, but He is the Mighty Administrator of the performances of

Time, the very Law behind the constant flow of the flood of time. 302.

Naikamaayah -One whose delusory forms are endless and variegated. According to

Puranas, for the sake of sustaining the world and maintaining its order and

rhythm, the Lord had taken different forms, each of His manifestations

well-suited for the times of His arrival. Thus, we have ten in- carnations.

Also, in that mighty manifestations of the Lord, as Krishna and Raffia, we find

descriptions of how one and the same entity generated different attitudes and

emotions in different types of people. In short, one who has realised the Self,

can thereafter freely play through all his existing Vaasanaas and none of them

can ever entangle him,

because he has grown to be the master of his own Vaasanaas. Maayaa, otherwise

called as Avidyaa, is constituted of the Vaasanaas in us, forming our Causal

Body. One who has transcended this is the One who has realised the Infinite.

Lord is therefore, one who is without Maayaa in Him. An individual entity, like

us, is one who is under the tyrannies of Maayaa. The Lord is one who can wield

Maayaa for His purpose without Himself becoming involved in it. 303. Mahaasanah

-This word can be dissolved as He who eats up everything. One who swallows up

all perceptions, emotions and thoughts, created by the Vaasanaas, at the

various levels of personality, due to our own individual Vaasanaas. At the time

of Samaadhi when the limited ego is ended and the Supreme is experienced all the

expressions of Vaasanaas are, as it were, swallowed by that Infinite Experience,

and therefore, this Great Vishnu is called as the “Consumer of Everything.”

304. Adrisyah -Through the sense-organs, the mind and intellect at this moment,

we are aware of the outer objects and our subjective emotions and thoughts. The

ultimate Reality is neither the objects perceived by us, nor the instruments of

our perception. He is the Subjective Core, the Eternal Essence, wherein, the

perceived and the instruments of perceptions are all totally absent. This

Subjective Reality must necessarily be, by Its very nature, not an object-of-

perception, and hence, It is called as the Imperceptible meaning, He is the

very Perceiver in all perceptions. 305. Vyakta-roopah -He who has a form-

clearly perceptible to the meditator in his meditation. The contradiction is so

smotheringly apparent because of the very placing of the term. It is only

just-now, in the above term, that we are told that the Lord is imperceptible

(Adrisyah) and the very following term declares

that He is perceptible. Here it means that though He is not perceptible with the

physical instruments of perceptions, yet on transcending the equipments, the

Yogi intimately comes to experience the entire Divine Glory of the Self.

Though, ordinarily it is not easy to see Him, in the devotee's heart, the Lord

comes to play vividly and drives the devotee mad in his ecstasy. 306.

Sahasra-jit -One who vanquishes thou- sands. In all the Puranas everywhere, it

is found that the Incarnations manifest to destroy the diabolically fallen

(Raakshas) who approach the good in endless hoards to annihilate them. One who

conquers over these diabolical forces is the Lord Vishnu. Subjectively the

hosts of passions and lusts, greeds and jealousies which invade the inner

bosom, and loot away the seeker’s tranquillity and peace, are all ultimately

vanquished by this Higher Consciousness and therefore, the Self is indicated as

the one who is ever

victorious over all the hoards of our lower impulses. 307. Ananta-jit

-Ever-victorious. The victory of the Lord is endless; in every Incarnation, He

alone wins in the end. The victory over negative forces becomes complete when

once the Higher Consciousness is experienced, and hence, the Self is indicated

here as Ananta-jit. http://groups.msn.com/

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