Sri Vishnu Sahasra namam -STANZA-13

[Bharathi]

STANZA-13

rudro bahusira babhrur
visvayonih sucisravah
amrtah sasvata sthanur
vararoho mahatapah

Word Meaning:

(Rudrah) = The Lord who manifests Himself as Rudra; the Lord of
vibration

(Bahusirah) = He possesses many heads

(Babhruh) = He has varigated pattern as his form

(Viswayonih) = womb of the universe

(SuciSravah) = He listens to only clean things

(Amrthah) = The immortal
,
(Saswatah) = the eternal

(Stha'nuh) = the static

(Vararohah) = born as a highclassed being

(Mahatapah) = The great penance.

MEANING:

Invoke the Lord as the form of Rudra, as having many heads,
manifesting as the pattern of varigated colours. He is the birth place
of the whole universe and the whole universe is his birth-place. He
listens to only clean things. He is immortal, eternal and static. He
takes a high birth and conducts great penance while He manifests as
the urge to do great penance.

Explanation:

1. The gods of each universe operate as three groups:
Adityas, (devas of radiation), Rudras (devas of vibration) and Vasus
(devas of materialisation). Among them, the Rudras fill the volume of
space (Rodasi) to manifest in all groups presiding over form,. colour,
and sound etc. All these devas are to be understood as the
manifestations of the same Lord who is the background. "I am Sankara
among the Rudras" says the Lord in the Bhagavadgita. It means that
Sankara is the manifestation among the Rudras which leads to the Lord
consciousness.

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2. The heads of all the created beings are to be meditated as the
heads of the Lord in various bodies. "The Lord has thousands of heads,
eyes and feet" says Purusha Sukta. Head means a vonex of His'
manifestation. The space-globe, the sun globe and the various
planetary globes as well as the atoms are all his heads.

3. Everything in this universe is a pattern in space made up of the
matrix of space which manifests as Rudras or vibrations. Hence each of
the five states of matter as well as their secondary and tertiary
manifestations is a pattern of varigated colours like the spectrum. It
is also a pattern of varigated sound vibration, for example, a musical
note which manifests as the periodicity of the solar system and its
planets, the heart-beat, respiration, an uttered syllable, a word,
sentence or its meaning.

4. The Lord is the birth place of the whole universe since everything
springs up from space in time in the pre - atomic state. Space and
time are manifestations of the primordial substance ( moolaprakriti)
which in its tUrn emerges from and merges into the background as the
Lord in the form of the cosmic breath or pulsation. Also the
background manifests itself as the whole universe and hence, the whole
universe is the one womb which hatches the Lord into concept, form and
being.

5. The power to hear is one among the five senses and it manifests as
sound consciousness. Living beings speak and hear things clean and
unclean as they think with their mind, but the power to hear, receive
and grasp only sound vibrations through sound principle, that are
heard by the ears contain nothing except the presence of the Lord and
hence, they are always clean. The ears hear only sounds that are ever
clean while the mind hears things clean or unclean. Also the aptitude
and the capacity to hear passages of wisdom from the scriptures as
well as £rom the universe are caused by the Lord Consciousness in us.
The grace of Lord makes us like the various paSsages that contain the
grand wisdom of the universe and this leads to liberation.

. 6. Time starts only after the beginning of the first stir of
creation and ends with the last stir of merging. The Lord is the
background of both and is hence, beyond time.

7. We have an impression that things like stone, mountain and tree are
static. We also take it for granted that the earth is static. This
sense which cognizes things that are static is only false though it is
true relative to the mind. This false sense of static natUre in things
makes beings live in their own sense of relativity which gives a sense
of location and identity. The Lord works as this false sense of static
nature which protects things through a false sense of security.

8. The birth of any creature is to realise the Lord through a constant
process of purification which is worked out through evolution. Hence
every birth is clean in its own way since it helps the breaking up of
a limitation of that particular stage iike the breaking. of the
egg-shell to the chicken inside.

9. Great saints and devotees take birth in His higher natUre which
spurs them into conducting great idea of doing penance even from quite
an early age like Prahlada and Dhruva. By dint of their penance they
realise the Lord and stand as His cosmic counter-parts or principles.
All this is due to the grace of the Lord. Hence, the Lord Himself is
the great penance the doer of the penance and the object of
realisation.

COURTESY -MASTER E.K

Regards
Bharathi.A