Vishnu Sahasranama (05/23/12)

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637 OM vishodhanaaya namaH .
"The Great Purifier." The One, meditating upon Whom all vaasanaas get
exhausted and the personality purified from these desires, becomes free of all
its accustomed, existent agitations. He Who is the very Source of Purity; Who
lends purity even to the sacred-places. By remembering Him, the human heart
becomes cleansed of its sins, immaculately swept of all consequent feelings of
restlessness.

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595 OM vR^isha-priyaaya namaH .
Vishnu delights in Dharma. 'Vrisha' means 'Dharma', so the term can be
dissolved as "One who delights in Dharma". Or it can signify, "One who is
beloved of the virtuous, the Good."

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789 OM kR^itaagamaaya namaH . ##(see 655)##
"One who is the author of the Vedas." The vedic mantras are called Aagamah.
The mantras were revealed to the great Rishis during moments they were not
identified with the Body-Mind-Intellect and, therefore, they were not, at
those inspired moments, limited individual egos. Where the ego is thus
ended,the Self alone comes to manifest. In this sense of the term, all
scriptures have burst forth from prophets and seers when they transcended
their limited existence to experience their oneness with the Eternal, Sree
Narayana. In Bhagavat Geeta also, Lord Krishna confesses, "I am the author of
all the Vedanta; I alone am the knower of the Veda." *

* (Vedaischa sarvairahameva vedyo vedaantakrid vedavideva
* chaaham.)--Geeta-15.15.

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772 OM ekapade namaH .
"The one-footed." The term 'paada' in Sanskrit has two meanings: a 'part' and
a 'foot'. The Lord in Bhagavat Geeta, uses the first meaning to describe His
mighty Glory: "The whole universe is supported by one part of Myself."* There
is a reference in Taittireeya Aaranyaka which clarifies the latter meaning:
"All beings are His foot." The significance here is the same as in
Geeta--wherein even the totality of all universes cannot be compared to Him,
the Infinite Absolute Existence.
* (Vishtabhyaahamidam kritsnamekaamsena sthito jagat.) --Geeta-10.42.

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629 OM bhuushhaNaaya namaH .
"One Who adorns the world": physically with the infinite beauties of His
Creation; emotionally He gives love and other finer instincts, and
intellectually He is the One behind all great, noble and beautiful thoughts
which have enriched human life, history and culture. Lord Narayana, in His
various Incarnations, has also glorified the world.

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