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the virtuous after death, the space above the sun or between the sun
and the polar star, the third of the three vyAhRti-s.
SrI VeLukkuDi kRshNan notes that in this nAma only three out of the
fourteen worlds, namely the bhU, bhUva and svar-loka-s, are mentioned, and
the protection aspect described in this nAma refers to the naimittika pralaya,
when the three worlds referred to by the terms bhU, Bhuva, and svar-loka-s
get submerged in the waters during the pralaya, and bhagavAn protects all the
beings of these three worlds by swallowing them and keeping them in His
stomach. However, He is also the Protector for all the beings in all the
fourteen worlds. So the nAma can be understood to mean that bhagavAn is the
Protective tree for all the beings of all the fourteen worlds.
SrI BhaTTar gives the following support:
samASritAt brahma taroH anantAt |
nis-samSayaH pakva phala prapAtaH ||
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(VP 1.17.91)
"If a person resorts to the eternal Tree of Brahman, there is no doubt that
the ripe fruit (of release from the bondage of samsAra and the attainment of
moksha) will certainly fall in his hands."
SrI v.v.rAmAnujan refers to nammAzhvAr's tiruvAimozhi pASuram 2.8.5,
where AzhvAr refers to the same concept:
OvAt tuyarp piRavi uTpaDa maRRu ivvevvaiyum
mUvAt tani mudalAi mU ulagum kAvalOn..
(tiruvAi. 2.8.5)
"Single-handedly, bhagavAn protects all the beings of the three worlds, who
are full of sufferings etc. He is the Sole cause for all the beings, and after
creating them, He takes responsibility for protecting them, and does not back
down under any circumstance".
Specifically to be noted in this nAma is the emphasis on the protection aspect