STANZA-9 VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM

[Bharathi]

*STANZA -9 *
Isvaro vikramee dhanvee
medhavee vikramah kramah
anuttamo duradharsah
krtajnah krtiratmavan*
*(iswarah) *= The Lord of the Individual
*(VikramI) *= One who overtakes by valour
*(DhanvI) *= He who has a bow
*(Medhavl) *= resourceful
*(Vikramah) *= One who has a peculiar succession
*(Kramah) *= One who crosses over things
*(Anuttamah) *= the highest
*(Duradhar~ah]*=One who cannot be frightened
*(K.rtajnah) *= the faithful
*(K.rtih) *= the accomplished
*(Atmavan) *= the spirited one
*MEANING *:
*Invoke the Lord as the Lord of the individual and as the tne who
overtakes
by valour; the one who has a bow and is resourceful; who has a
peculiar
succession of things and who crosses over things. He is the highest
who
cannot be frightened. He is the faithful one, the accomplished and
the
spirited one.*
Explanation :
1. The inner Lord, the Lord of the atom, individual and the universe.
The
word *Iswara *means the light which pervades and influences the
individual
unit, especially in an administrative sense. The Vedas explain that
whatever
exists in this world is lived and ruled by Iswara. The Bhagavadgita
says
that He lives in the hearts of every being and makes the being work
and
evolve around himself Patanjaii says that the Lord is the light If the
Soul
for whom we conduct the practice of yoga. Meditating upon Him will
lead us
to yoga state.
*2. Vikrami *means the one who overtakes other by valour. In the
lower
plane, He is approached as competition and a :ompetitive spirit. On
the
administrative plane, He works as he sense of defence and
consciousnesS! On
the highest plane, He manifests as the unconquerable steadiness of
the
soul-light which can defeat every shortcoming.
*3. Dhanvi. *He possesses a bow. This is a sign of protection .nd war
like
nature. He is the valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked.
On the
lower plane, He is understood as the use of a weapon. On the higher
planes,
He is the point of the aPplication of consciousness, who is located at
a
point between he eyebrows. He is located as the attempt to utter OM.
*It *is
aid that the utterance of OM is the bow, the five senses are the
arrows that
should be aimed at inwards to hit the object of the individual
consciousness
which we call ego and we attain liberation thereby.
*4. Medhavi. *Resourcefulness is the invisible ocean upon he surface
of
which rises the wave of our application or approach to do things. He
lives
as invisible presence in us and makes his appearance in us and makes
his
appearance as our own approach when the situation comes.
*5. Vikramah. *Situations in life will be transformed from the nature
of
obstacles to the nature of steps to achieve by following a peculiar
succession of events. The arrangement of events into right succession
causes
success. This arrangement by the intuitive approach is the presence of
the
Lord Himsel£
*6. Kramah. *The Lord should be traced as the creative intelligence
which
makes us cross over incidents to remove the nature of obstacles from
them.
*7. Anuttamah. *Our constitUtion is an arrangement of everything as
better
than its lower. The betterness leads to the betterment of the lower
into the
higher. Thus the Lord's presence exists in us always as something
higher and
leads us to the highest state, which is Himsel£
*8. Duradharsah. *The vulnerability to get frightened at something
exists as
part of the lower nature in us; it exists as the result of objectivity
of
the cognisance of the non-self Fear is an expression of the unknown.
The
Lord. as pervasion expands as the awareness of His subjective presence
and
removes fear by this meditation. Thus the Lord Himself stands in us as
the
one who cannot be frightened.
*9. Krtajnah. *Faithfulness is the quality of remembering the good
deeds of
others. It is the intelligence which traces goodness and which
reciprocates
goodness. It is the Lord's presence in us as goodness.
*10. Kritih. *The above trait and its meditation leads one to the
realisation of accomplishing everything and live accomplished in Him
as the
accomplishment.
* 11. Atmavan. *The presence of the divine spirit in us makes
us
the spirited ones and this spirit expresses in its Own way on every
plane
until we realise it.
COURTESY -MASTER E.K
Regards
Bharathi.A