Vishnu Sahasranamam Final 2015 (1).pdf

helplessly tied down hand and foot to his own behaviour as selfconditioning.Since the Lord is the in-filling principle of the wholecreation, He is understood as the one grand sacrifice, upon thebackground of which every one is a self-sufficient unit of sacrificeof its own magnitude.5. When the zodiac is divided into any number of equaldivisions, each set of divisions is called a nakshatra of its ownmagnitude. The 28 divisions is the commonest of all and representsthe reproductive cycles of the female principle of creation.6. The moon measures these divisions while, she goes roundthe zodiac conducting the duties of fertilisation.7. The ability to forbear is the real test of one’s own ability.The Lord presents Himself as this trait in all the beings since hestands as the able one who supports the beings through this trait.8. Famine and pestilence are thrown upon the beingsperiodically as the result of their own undoings. The experienceproves them the value of things created.9. The succession of desires makes one feel theimpermanency and the painfulness of desire and makes onetranscend the level of desires. Thus the Lord works out perfectionin the comprehension of his own beings.175