Vishnu Sahasra Naamam-Vol V-Rr-edit.pub - Ahobilavalli

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The Bliss of the touch by bhagavAn's hands eliminates all misery, and is like
the herbs that can cure any ailment. His divine hands were the medicine for
gajendra, and the heat from His beautiful red lips were the comfort that
gajendra would do anything to have.
SrI veLukkuDi kRshNan gives another analogous example, where pirATTi
administers the cikitsA that is the most appropriate for the occasion. When
rAma came back full of bleeding wounds after victoriously eliminating the
rAkshasa khara and his army of 14,000 rAkshasa-s in janasthAnam, sItA
pirATTi administered the best treatment for the occasion - she gave Him a
very fond embrace. As Lakshmi, she is the embodiments of all cures, and thus,
Her embrace was the best cure for rAma's wounds.
tam dRshTvA Satru-hantAram maharshINAm sukhAvaham |
babhUva hRshTA vaidehI bhartAram parishasvaje ||
"sItA pirATTi was extremely happy to see Lord rAma who had eliminated the
rAkashas-s that were causing immense harm to the sages, and thus had
fulfilled the cause of ensuring the safety of these sages".
SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshaN also interprets the nAma based on the gajendra
episode - atha gajendra uddhArakatAm sUcayan Aha - svaika SaraNyasya
gajendrasya vipad vinASe ati-nipuNatvAt vidvat-tamaH - He Who handled the
surrender of gajendra in the most skillful manner.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri generalizes SrI BhaTTar's explanation - bhagavAn
is One Who knows how to remedy the bhakta's problems.
SrI Sa'nkara's interpretation is that bhagavAn has this nAma because He
alone, and no one else, always possesses the knowledge of everything -
nirastAtiSayam j~nAnam sarvadA sarva gocaram asya iti asti, na itareshAm iti
vidvat-tamaH. All the rest possess but a tiny fraction of His knowledge.
SrI vAsishTha comments that bhagavAn is All-Knowing - One Who knows
everything there is to know ever since creation started, and prior to that, and
for all future to come, and so He is vidvat-tamaH. This cannot be said of
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