Vishnu Sahasranamam Final 2015 (1).pdf

the series of planes of creation upto the grossest material plane,conceiving the Lord as the omnipresence in each of the planes.She is called Aditi. Therefore the Lord is understood as thechild of Aditi.4. The night-lotus is a symbol of the glory of night inIndian symbolism. The eyes that are open ( aware) during thenight of dissolution are compared to the petals of a night lotus.The eyes of the Lord are not physical and hence they have nowink either in creation or dissolution. The word Pushkaraesoterically means the source of replenishing and fulfilment.The graceful look of the Lord fills the whole universe withfullness and replenishes everything with mind, life and food.5. Great sound means the totality of the utterance of thewhole universe in all its detail as the spell of the one word, OM.It means the sound principle which exists in space and whichforms the back-ground of all the sound vibrations of all planes.This is invoked as the Presence of the Lord here.6. Beginning and ending are to the creation and thecreator but not to the background. When clay is made into apot and when the pot is broken, there is a beginning and anending to the pot but not to the clay. The Lord forms the clayof the whole universe which imbeds the potter in every atomof it. Hence, he has neither birth nor death.7. The word Dhaata denotes the creator, who is the contentof the self-effulgent golden egg and who manifests as fourfacedBrahma. Since he comes out of the background Lordalong with the egg, the four-faced Brahma is also rememberedas the Lord Himself in the capacity of His son.8. The whole creation is an arrangement of principlesthat manifest as the folds of space and time. They unfold into41