Friday, 25 May 2018




Dridhah -“The Firm.” One who is firm in His convictions, judgements, love and mercy. It is in this sense that the Bhakti Marga describes the Lord often as ‘A-Dridhah’, especially when a sinner prostrates before Him; meaning that in full repentance were a criminal to surrender himself to the Lord’s Feet, the Infinite Justice even wavers and becomes anxious to help the sinner out of his mistaken notions and his consequent ugly actions. The Lord is ever vigilant to re-establish such a one in his own wisdom, which is his real nature.
Sankarshano-achyutah -During the great dissolution of the entire universe of names and forms, He, being the one who merges the entire plurality into His own es-sence-He is called ‘Sankarshanah.’ When an individual sleeps, his entire world of ex-periences get absorbed into himself and they all remain in seed condition in the ‘Causal-body’ as mere vaasanaas. One who never falls away from His own essential nature is called ‘Achyutah’ -one who knows no fall (Chyutih). The one expression used here for the Lord is the combination of both these terms. The Lord Narayana who absorbs the whole world into Himself at the time of the deluge, and He who never falls away from His own Real Nature.

Varunah -Since, in the evening, the sun reaches the western horizon (Varuna-Dik), the sun is called Varunah. Also after his day’s functioning in the world, in the dusk he gathers his scorching rays unto himself and disappears. Like the setting sun, the Lord withdraws all the pluralistic world unto Himself. The Eternal Reality, functioning through the sun as the sun’s energy and light, is described in the Upanishads as the ‘Golden One’, and hence the appropriateness of using this term Varunah for Narayana. The designation Soorya- Narayana is very familiar to the students of Purana.



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