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Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 91) The Lord is the greatest Yogī and serves as the Lord of all yogīs. Now, the meaning of the word yogī isn’t clear. It could either be someone who performs yoga or has a lot of knowledge or can be some one who meditates above all things wordly. It is for the wise to deduce the right meaning भारभृत कथितो योगी योगीशः सर्वकामदः  | आश्रमः श्रमणः क्षामः सुपर्णो वायुवाहनः ||   bhārabhŗt kathito yogī yogīśah sarvakāmadah āśramah śramaņah kshāmah suparņo vāyuvāhanah bhārabhŗt The One Who carries the weight of the Earth in the form of ādiśeśa, kūrma etc kathitah The One Who is declared by the Vedas as the supreme, the most auspicious yogī The One Who establishes His ātman in His ātman , He is yogī yogīśah The One Who is the Lord of the yogīs sarvakāmadah The One Who fulfils all desires āśramah The One Who is the shelter for those who are wandering the thick jungle of samsāra śramaņah The One Who causes grief to ...

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 90) The beauty of the irony used in the names aņurbŗhat captures my mind just like the very feeling of His Highness Lord Vishņu. Once He is called as the minute atom ( aņuh) while in the very next name He becomes the ever expanding gigantic form of the universe ( bŗhat ). Similarly in the next two names also the reader will find this ironic situation. Such is the might of Our dear Lord of Vaikuntha, All hail GOVINDA GOVINDA! Lord Vishnu is the atom ( anuh ) as well as the ever expanding universe ( brihat ) अणुरबृहत् कृशः स्थूलो गुणभ्रीनिर्गुणो महान | अध्रितः स्वध्रितः स्वास्यः प्रान्ग्वंशो वंशवर्धनः ||   aņurbŗhat krśah sthūlo gunabhŗnirguņo mahān adhŗtah svadhŗtah svāsyah prāngvamśo vamśavardhanah aņuh The One Who is the smallest unit of everything, that is, atom bŗhat The One Who is gigantic and ever growing krśah The One Who can become so tiny that He can enter a stone sthūlah The One Who is stout and can accommoda...

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 89) Very pleasantly are the entangled relationship of The Lord and the number 7 explained here in these names. The first four names deal with 7 ( sapta ). We also note that Lord’s names show characteristics of Sūryadeva . In the final two names He is portrayed as the creator as well as the destroyer of fear for different kinds of people ( adhārmic and dhārmic ) सहस्रार्चिः सप्तजिव्हः सप्तैदा: सप्तवाहनः | अमुर्तिर्नघो अचिन्त्यो भयकृत भयनाशनः ||   sahasrārchih saptajivhah saptaidāh saptavāhanah amūrtiranagho achintyo bhayakŗt bhayanāśanah sahasrārchih The One Who is has the capacity of a thousand suns, He is the source of the sun’s light & energy saptajivhah The One Who has seven tongues, they are, kālī ( black), karalī (terrific), manojava (fluttering as the mind), sulohitā (red), sudhumravarņa (purple), sphulinginī (sparkling) and viśvaruchih (of universal form) saptaidāh The One Who has seven kinds of flames which...

Vedic Reflections - Shri VishnusahasranAmam (Stanza 88) Lord Vishņu is touted as a root that grows both above and below in the following stanza and such a tree which has no limitations set by time सुलभः सुव्रतः सिद्धः शत्रु जिछ्चात्रुतापनः | न्याग्रोधोदुम्बरो अश्वथः चाणुरान्द्रनिशूधनः ||   sulabhah suvratah siddhah śatrujichchatrutāpanah nyagrodhodumbaro aśvathah chāņurāndraniśūdanah sulabhah The One Who is easily available by giving leaves, flowers and fruits suvratah The One Who is of excellent oath siddhah The One Who is firm and existing independently śatrujit The One Who conquers all His enemies śatrutāpanah The One Who vanquishes enemies of demigods nyagrodhah The One Who grows downwards and fills the root of everything udumbarah The One Who nourishes the world with food aśvathah The One Who is the eternal tree with roots above and below and Whose existence is not ruled or barred by time chāņurāndraniśūdanah The One Who slayed an asura called chāņura from āndh...