STANZA -5
Svayambhuh sambhur adityah
Puskarakso mahasvanah
anadinidhano dhara
Vidhata dhaturuttamah*
Word Meaning: -
Swayambhuh Self manifest
Sambhuh The one who manifests as peace and through peace
Adityah Son of Aditi
Pushkarakshah One who has eyes resembling the night lotus
[blue lotus petals]
Mahaswanah The great sound
Anadinidhanah One who has neither beginning nor end
Dhata Creator
*Vidhata *One who creates arrangement of things
*Dhatuh+uttamah *The Supreme Lord even to the creator.
MEANING:
Invoke the Lord as self born, born out of peace, and the one who manifests
through peace, as peace; the son of Aditi and the one who has eyes
resembling the tender petals of white lotus; the great sound of the
universe; as the One who has neither beginning nor ending. He is the Creator
of the arrangement of things. He is the Creator Himself and the Lord of the
Creator.
Explanation :
1. Birth is given to matter, force and mind by the higher principle which
pervades these three entities. The higher principles make their own
manifestation by their higher impulse. The impulse itself is the cause of
the birth of all the series of the lower and higher
principles whereas the impulse is born of itself Hence it is the Lord's
power of self-manifestation. Even in us also the soul and spirit produce
their own impulse to manifest and the lower principles are given birth to.
2. 'Sam' in Sanskrit is a man tram which means poise or peace. When
meditated, the sound produces poise. This is possible only when meditated in
a peaceful manner. An attempt to relax the attempt and be peaceful produces
peace. Peace in its turn gives the experience of peace. This aspect of the
Lord is called *Sambhuh.*
*3. Adityah *Aditi is the mother of all the devas and also the Supreme Lord.
In fact, the supreme God principle is self-existing without mother and
father. When he wants to come down as creation, He gives out the
mother-principle which was hitherto slumbering in Him. She comes down and
conceives Him in her womb as her child. Then the Lord comes down as the
first manifestation of the Lord who is called *Virat *or *Hiranyagarbha,
*the
self-effulgent egg. This mother-principle descends into all the series of
planes of creation upto the grossest material plane, conceiving the Lord as
the omnipresence in each of the planes. She is called Aditi. *Therefore the
Lord is understood as the child of Aditi.
4. The night-lotus is a symbol of the glory of night in Indian symbolism.
The eyes that are open ( aware) during the night of dissolution are compared
to the petals of a night lotus. The eyes of the Lord are not physical and
hence they have no wink either in creation or dissolution. The word
*Pushkara
*esoterically means the source of replenishing and fulfilment. The graceful
look of the Lord fills the whole universe with fullness and replenishes
everything with mind, life and food.
5. Great sound means the totality of the utterance of the whole universe in
all its detail as the spell of the one word, OM. It means the sound
principle which exists in space and which forms the back-ground of all the
sound vibrations of all planes. This is invoked as the Presence of the Lord
here.
6. Beginning and ending are to the Feation and the creator but not to the
background. When clay is made into a pot and when the pot is broken, there
is a beginning and an ending to the pot but not to the clay. The Lord forms
the clay of the whole universe which imbeds the potter in every atom of it.
Hence, he has neither birth nor death.
7. The word *Dhaata *denotes the creator, who is the content of the
self-effulgent golden egg and who manifests as fourfaced *Brahma. *Since he
comes out of the background Lord along with the egg, the four-faced Brahma
is also remembered as the Lord Himself in the capacity of His son.
8. The whole creation is an arrangement of principles that manifest as the
folds of sp~ce and time. They unfold into the workings of intelligences,
forces and the layers of matter. All these exist dormant in the egg like the
colour, fragrance and shape of the tender petals in a bud which is the would
be flower. The one who takes care of the arrangement of this totality is
called *Vidhaata. *On lower mental plane and the plane of force and matter,
He is understood as the law of inevitability which is called *fate. *A proof
of the existence of this principle is the manifestation of everything
according to its own nature and set properties.
9. If the Creator who is the totality of the intelligence of one unit
creation is to meditate, he has to meditate upon his own presence as his own
background whom he can conceive as the Lord. Therefore the Lord is Supreme
even in the eyes of the creator himself
COURTESY-MASTER E.K
Regards
Bharathi.A
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