The Lord
("prabhu") of the Immortals ("a-mara"),
the Devas. The Denizens of the Heavens, including all the office bearers
therein (Dikpaalakas etc.) along with Indra, are called ‘Devas’,
and they enjoy in their heavenly state a relative immortality.
The
devas live and continue functioning till the great dissolution-the Sleep of the
Creator. Compared with the short span of the existence of man on this globe,
the aeons through which the Devas live can be considered as end-
less or immortal.
One
who serves them with His might, giving protection and security to all
creatures, is called, therefore, Amaraprabhuh.
Visvakarmaa -The
very creator-of the world-of-objects, of all equipments-of-experiences,
and of all experiences in all bosom-is called the Visva-Karmaa.
Herein the Infinite Lord is but a Witness of all that is happening and though
the experienced world is sustained in Him, He is not involved in the
imperfections or mortality, that are happening all around at all
times in the Visvam. “They are in Me, I am not in them”-Geeta.
Manuh -The
term means One who has the ability to reflect upon the Higher
(Mananaseelah Manuh). Manu also means mantra and
so, as applied to the Lord, it can mean as the One who has
manifested Himself in the form of the Vedic mantras.
Tvashtaa -One who
makes gross things of huge dimensions into minutest particles. At
the time of the world’s dissolution, the entire gross-world folds back
into its subtler elements until at last pure objectless space
alone comes to remain.
Sthavishthah -lt is the superlative degree of gross
(sthoola) and thus ‘the Supremely gross’ is the subtlest Reality. The contradiction
that it contains is itself its vigour and beauty. The Infinite
as the subtlest is All-Pervading in Its own nature. It is this Maha-
Vishnu who has Himself become the entire universe of gross things and beings.
Just as all waves are the ocean, the total world of gross things is itself the
form of Vishnu.
In
His cosmic form, Narayana had manifested to Arjuna in he Geeta. There the words
of Arjuna’s chant will clearly bring home to us that the entire gross world is
ever His own Divine form.
Sthaviro Dhruvah -The Ancient
(Sthavirah) and the Motionless or firm (Dhruvah).
He is called the ‘Ancient’ because the very first ‘unit of time’ itself
had risen from Him. He was the progenitor of the very concept of
Time in us. Therefore, ‘Time’ cannot condition Him. Thus He
becomes the most Ancient. He is the ‘Firm Truth’; nothing that happens in
the phenomenal world can affect Him at any time.
