STANZA-16 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

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STANZA-16

 

bhrajis nur bho janam bhokta

sahisnur jagadadijah

anagho vijayo jera

visvayonih punarvasuh

 

Word Meaning:

 

Bhrajisnuh) = The one with shinning nature

 

(Bhojanam) = that which is eaten for

 

sustenance

 

(Bhokta) = One who eats and sustains

himself

 

(Sahisnuh) = One who has enduring nature

 

Jagadidijah) = One who is born as the

beginning of creation

 

(Anaghah) = untouched by sin

 

(Vijayah) = success

 

Ueta) = the conqueror

 

(Viswayonih) = the .womb of the universe

 

(Punarvasuh) = the replenishing one

 

 

MEANING:

 

       Invoke the Lord as having shining nature and who is the

food of all. He is also in the form of the eater of food. The Lord is

the one who endures all. He is the one born as the first creation in

the beginning. Untouched by sin, he shines as success and as the one

conqueror of all. He is the birth place of all things and has

everything as his birth-place. He is the replenishing principle of

all.

 

Explanation :

 

1. Nature is the brilliance of the Lord and through it. He shines

forth into his objectivity. He knows himself and he sees himself as

all the beings by virtue of his power of brilliance. Everyone knows

all others and the environment also by the same power of His

brilliance which is called maya or conditioning.

 

2. The same minerals- water, air etc., which live in our own body

exist in the bodies of others which we call animals and plants. Yet we

eat the same matter as food from the bodies of animals and plants and

sustain ourselves with it. The Lor4 gives birth to the bodies of

living beings beyond number and serves as the food of all. Every being

eats another being as food to sustain itsel£ In doing so, it is eating

the Lord in various forms. Verily the Lord is the food of all.

 

3, 4. In the same way, the Lord Himself manifests as the eater in all

the beings. Finally He is the eater of all, who eats everything into

his own subjectivity and hence, He is the one, who endures all.

 

5. The first born in creation is the creator Himself and the sacred

ones who are the first three, four, seven and twelve. The first three

are Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The first four are the four Kumaras who

remain pure throughout the creation. The first seven are the seven

great lights who are known as the Saptarishis (The seven seers).

They are formed by the combination of the three and the four and

manifest through the spectroscopy of the creation. The first twelve

are the Adityas who preside over the twelve months of the great year

of one creation. They are formed oUt of the multiplication ot the

first three and the first four. " They all take birth in me and they

are my mind-born ones, " says the Lord in the Bhagavadgita.

 

6,7. Since the Lord is the purest spirit from which everything comes

out, He cannot be touched by anything that came out before it can be

transmUted as Himsel£ Like the fire, which cannot be polluted by the

type of fuel it burns, the Lord cannot be touched by anyone of the

sins of creation. The Lord is the success of all. Everyone who can

believe in Him knows the order of the universe and its plan and acts

only accordingly. Hence He knows no defeat. A knowledge of the Lord is

truly a knowledge of success.

 

8, 9. The spirit of conquering is an expression of rajasic natUre

which manifests as rulership, administration and leadership. It is the

divine weapon to establish the law and to protect it. It is one of the

manifestations of the Lord.     •

 

10. Vasu means wealth and Punarvasu means the replenishing of wealth

at every step. It is the truth of resourcefulness that ever exists in

nature as the grace of the Lord. One who cultivates confidence upon

this truth becomes resourceful in its true sense. Others who place

confidence on money and possessing things suffer at every step from

want and lack of resources and consequently from constant fear. This

is because of the lack of planning which is characteristic to the mind

of a possessive natUre. The Lord is verily the true source of all

resources to all.

 

 

COURTESY : MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A