Songs as divine intervention
Stanza 24
agraneer-graamaneeh sreemaan nyaayo netaa
sameeranah
sahasra-moordhaa visvaatmaa sahasraakshas-sahasrapaat.
sahasra-moordhaa visvaatmaa sahasraakshas-sahasrapaat.
Agraneeh -One wh0 guides us to
the end -the peak. Also the One, wh0 leads (Agra) the entire pilgrim- age-the
Guide. He moves ahead and following His footsteps, keeping Him in our gaze,
faithfully following Him, we shall reach the Goal and thus He is called as the
leader, Vishnu.
Graamaneeh -One who controls,
guides and leads the “Collection”, the “flock” (Graama). In Sanskrit Graama
means “a collection of many number of things”.
Sreemaan -Sree
means Light, Effulgence or glory. Consciousness has all these three, and
therefore, Sreemaan means the Self, the Lord.
Nyaayah -The
word in its direct meaning is “Justice”. In the spiritual world, it connotes
logical arguments (Tarka) and lines of contemplation (Yukti), which help us in
arriving at the absolute experience indicated in the Sruti, are together called
Nyaaya.
Netaa -the leader-one who
protects, nurtures, nourishes and guides all living creatures in the
world. One who is being the Superintendent of the machinery of life -(“Jagat-Yantra
Nirvaahakah”)-Sankara.
Sameeranah -One
who efficiently administers all movements of all living creatures. In the
physical body, all physiological activities are controlled by the five
‘Praanaas’ and thus in the form of ‘Praanaas’ He who governs all movements
of all living creatures in the universe is Maha Vishnu.
Sahasria-Moordhaa -One who has endless number of heads. All
living creatures are His manifestations and He Himself is the One who has
become the many. Therefore all heads are His, just as in a factory the
proprietor considers all the employees as his own ‘hands’. Here the term
Sahasra means innumerable.
Visvaatmaa -The
very Soul of the universe; the very inner Essence in all living
creatures.
Sahasraakshah -In
describing the macro- cosmic form of the Lord we have an endorsement of this
declaration in the Bhagavad Geeta.
Sahasrapaat -In
the Purushasookta of the Rig-Veda, the same terms are used in describing the
Infinite Form of the Mighty Truth: (“The Purusha is thousand-headed,
thousand-eyed, and thousand-footed.”)
The
“many heads” (224), “many eyes” (226), “many legs”
(227),
together indicate that, through all these equipments of thinking
(head), of action (leg) and of perception (eyes), the Thinker, the Doer and the
Seer, the One Infinite Consciousness expresses everywhere, in all forms, at all
times, and He is Lord Vishnu.
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