Vishnu Sahasranama (05/19/12)

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811 OM paavanaaya namaH . ##(see 292)##
"One Who ever purifies." The impurities of a personality are gathered when the
mind and intellect, in a natural impluse of animal voluptuousness, rush
towards the sense-objects and to peacefully let it settle in contemplation of
the divine nature and the eternal glory of Sree Narayana, the Self, is to
exhaust all the existing vaasanaas, which are the personality-impurities
within.

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465 OM svaapanaaya namaH .
One who puts people to sleep; stupefying. Lord Vishnu as Isvara has for
Himself the total Vaasanaa (Maayaa) as an equipment for His self-expression as
Eesvara (Narayana). He, through His Maayaa, veils each individual and renders
them ignorant of their own divine nature. This "veiling-power" (Aavarana
Sakti) creates many agitations (Vikshepa), due to which individuals rush out
for sense-gratification. Since Isvara, thus, with His Maayaa-power deludes
everybody, He gathers to Himself this epithet Svaapanah, meaning "the mighty
stupefying force."

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528 OM nandaaya namaH .
One who is freed from all limited worldly pleasures. Worldly pleasures come
through contact with the objects of the sense-organs. The term means One who
has no contact with the world of senses, as He dwells in transcendence of all
the equipments of pleasure--the body, mind and intellect. Chandogya Upanishad
says, "That which is immensity is felicity; there is no felicity in
littleness."*

* "Yo vy bhuma tadamRutamatHa yadalpam tanmatrya" --Chan.7.24.1, and also
"Yo vy bhuma tatsukham nAlpe sukhamastita" --Chan.7.23.1.

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586 OM shubhaaN^gaaya namaH .
One who has the most beautiful form. That one who is enchanting, most
handsome.

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675 OM mahaakratve namaH .
"The Great Sacrifice." The Supreme cannot be experienced without the greatest
sacrifice, the total sacrifice of the Ego, the Jeeva-Bhaava. The Great
Sacrifice indicates traditionally the Asvamedha Yaaga. Therefore, some
commentators explain this term "as one who is of the very form of Ashvamedha
Yaaga."*
* One if the great sacrifices. It is performed by mighty kings wherein an
enormous amount of wealth is distributed. One hundred such Yagas is said to
qualify one for the status of Devendra. It declares the sovereignty and
powess of the sacrificer king.

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