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It is worth nothing that both SrI Sa’nakara and SrI bhaTTar chose to use only
the root mAn as the basis for their interpretation of the nAma, and gave the
meaning to the nAma as “He Who is worthy of worship”, while the dvaita
interpreter chose to see the nAma as mA + anyah.
nAma 756. laekSvamI loka loka-svAmI
loka svAmI
The Master of the Universe.
loka-svAmine namah.
One meaning for the word svam is aiSvaryam. The amara koSavyAkhyAnam for
svAmI is svam aiSvaryam asya asti iti svAmI. There is a pANini sUtra, svAmin
aiSvarye (5.2.126), which equates the word svAmin with aiSvaryam. The affix
Amin after the word sva comes in the sense of lordship. aiSvaryam refers to
sovereignty, Lordship, power, wealth, etc. Thus, one interpretation for the
nAma is: He is called loka-svAmI because He is the Lord of the Universe.
The thread in SrI bhaTTar’s vyAkhyAnam is worth revisiting for the full
enjoyment of his vyAkhyAnam. BhagavAn is called amAnI (nAma 753) because
He is not proud of any of His possessions or guNa-s, He is mAna-dah
(nAma754) because He honors His devotees, and he is mAnyah (nAma 755)
because He considers Himself worthy of respect because of His special
relationship of affection to His devotees. Now we come to His nAma – lokasvAmI
(nAma 756) – The Master of the Universe. In what sense? According to
SrI bhaTTar, it is not because of His superior power or wealth or parattvam,
but because He is the Master in simplicity, based on the previous three nAmas,
and so He is loka-svAmI in soulabhayam. This anubhavam of bhagavAn as
living for the devotees and acting for the devotees, is the crowning aspect of
SrI bhaTTar’s bhAshyam, which can be seen throughout the vyAkhyAnam. His
interpretation for the current nAma is: he is loka-svAmI because He is amAnI,
mAna-dah, and mAnyah as explained above – ka evam karmakarah? lokasvAmI.
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