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The Sri Vishnu Sahasranam, or the Thousand Names of Vishnu, is
an important Stotram that is chanted in many temples of Vishnu throughout
the world. It is used at important times or occasions, or even simply for
personal meditation. It is extremely powerful and offers numerous
spiritual benefits. Its recitation creates a most spiritual atmosphere for all,
destroys negative influences and elements, and produces a high
vibration for peace and positivity.
The author of Srimad Bhagavatham as also Sri Mahabharata,Veda Vyasa
[ a contemporary to Lord Krishna ] gave out as one of the many
invaluable gifts, the Vishnu Sahasranama w hich hints at many a scret of
phenomenon of creation, packed in the names of Lord. Each name has its significance
and is used to denote the phenomenon in any one of the three planes, the
matter,force and consciousness.
Kulapathi Ekkirala Krishnsmacharya, unlocked and gave out the
significane of each of the 1000 names, utilizing the spiritual keys ,viz., the
Etymological ,Astrological ,Astrological and Times keys .The author
popularly known as Master EK to his followers in the East and the
west has been an excellent example of the one who fulfilled in himself and a
few of his followers, the meditation of Vishnu and Vasudeva , as described in
the precedings paras.
The importance of recital of the 1.000 names is too well known to be
elaborated.The intelligent understanding of the names in the light of
the vedic thought helps the reader a longway in reaching the goal in
spiritual pursuit.The commentary has been written by Master E.K. for the
benefit of all true seekers.May the Lord Vishnu arrange its distribution into
the deserving hands, in which direction,
'' OM VISHNAVE NAMAH''
Visvam visnurvasatkaro
bhutabhavyabhavatprabhuh
bhutakrdbhutabhrdbhavo
bhutatma bhutabhavanah
Visvam Universe
Vishnuh The Lord of pervasion
Vashatkarah The Lord who makes himself live as universe
Bhuta past
Bhavya future
Bhavat present
Prabhuh The Lord Executive
Bhutabhrid The one who maintain the beings
Bhavah being
Bhutatma The soul and spirit of beings
Bhuta bhavanah The one who conceives the beings.
MEANING:- The whole universe is a form of Vishnu, The Lord of
pervasion .He is the Lord who makes himselfs live as the universe .He is the
past ,future and present .He is the Lord Executive and the Maker of
beings .He being the soul and spirit of beings, maintain them ,He is the one who
conceives the beings.
Explanation :-
1. The universe should be meditated upon as the lord.This is the
first step of spiritual practice in any path.Without this step, any path
becomes black magic or sorcery.Before one gets the first spiritual
awakening,he understands the universe as something objective of himself and also
as something filled with things animate and inanimate.Such an
understanding is due to the state of ignorance which precedes the state of awakening.
The ignorance will be repeatedly attacked by this first step of
meditation.
2. The second step is the meditation of the lord as presence in
all things .While the first step is to meditate everything as the
Lord,the second step is to meditate everything.This makes us find a place for
everything in the body of the Lord as the the ultimate fitness of
things.This importance of names. Shapes and peculiarties of
everything will be lost into the fitness without losing any aspect of it.This gives us
the place of individual existence in the womb of cosmic existence.
3. There is the first call of everythijng into existence from
the background of the Lord.The background is relatively understood as
non-existence.The call is always from within the background.It is
called the first stir or awakening.This call is called Vashat,the call for vas
or existence. The ritualist repeats this before he meditates.This is by
way of imitating the work of the Lord By this he gets into the awakening of
the Lord.
4. Past,present and future exist on a background which is the
eternal presence of the Lord .Even to us also they exist to the mind and they
do not exist to the consciousness ,Time and states of matter are only the
projections of the outer layer of existence The inner layers from the body
of Lord who is etetnal .Hence the Lord is to be meditated upon the as the
three headed one in this aspect,What we call past is only our impression of
the past,same thing with the other two,Meditating these things as the
Lord will remove our impression and lead us to His existence.
5. The second stage of creation is the process of objectifying a
part of Himself,as an object to create.At this stage the Lord descends as
the creator.On his own background He works as the Creator of His own
creation.The creator who desends from Him is called the son [ Brahma, the
four headed ].The object of creation is called the word after the
commencement of the utterance [ Sarawathi ].This Brahma is the maker
of beings.
6. Then the Lord also descends as the maintenance of the created
beings.This is the form of food to every living being.The Lord is
attracted as food and is eaten by everyone as His own food. In fact, He is not
eaten.but He eats every living beings into His fold of extience by the power
of metabolism.
7. Existence is a miracle,Til now none of the beings can know how
he exists,yet he knows that he exists,This miracle is to be meditated
upon as one of the wonders of the Lord's existence.
8. Everyone exists as his own identification with himself.This
identification is the cause of his own separate existence .Still he
exists only on the background of His identity towards which he begines to
take his journey of existence through the various rungs of evoulation.This
goal within himself is called the soul which exists as the background of
his body,senses,mind ansd the whole psychological mechanism.Gradually the
individual begins to understand that he has a soul.After some time he
properly understand that he has the soul.By the time he succeeds in
merging in the soul consciousness which wick be know as the spirit,Thus the
Lord exists as the spirit of everything and every one
9. In the Lord state there are no beings ,yet the Lord has
beings within him.This is because the Lord conceives the beings without
having an intension to conceive. Intention is only to the conceived beings
inclusive of the creator. Apoet gazing into the ocean of eternity conceives some
fine ideas of the waves of the ocean.He does this with out an
intension.After some time,he finds that he has conceived these thoughts.Then he finds
the thoughts wonderful.he rejoices in them and beings to embellish them
unto perfection .This process is first taking place in the mind of the
Lord.Meditate upon this phase of the Lord .You will be a creator on
the background of the Creator.
COURTESY-MASTER E.K
REGARDS
ADUSUMILLI
mihira adusumilli | i dont know about that Megha mala ''okko raasi varu okko namam chadavali anni''
and people who can chant VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM dont know what is the meaning of each namam right
whiel chanting bhavam is important with out that if we chant 1000 times aslo no use
if we know the meaning and then chat we can enjoy wile chanting imagining the LORD
Posted at: 15, Oct 2009 2:00 PM |
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