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The idea that SrI bhaTTar reflects is conveyed by nammAzhvAr in
tiruvAimozhipASuram 4.5.7:
enRum onRAgi ottArum mikkArgaLum, tan tanakku
inRi ninRAnai ellA ulagum uDaiyAn tannai
kunRam onRAl mazhai kAtta pirAnai….
The important point here that bhagavAn is not only superior because of His
parattvam, but more so because He is unique and excels everyone in His
soulabhyam by His own choice; He behaves and sees Himself as another human
being, even though in every sense He retains His parattvam in His human
incarnations – aham mAnusham manye.
SrI Sa’nkara’s vyAkhyAnam is that He is loka-svAmI because He is the Lord of
the fourteen worlds, the seven worlds above and the seven worlds below –
caturdaSAnAm lokAnAm IsvaratvAt loka-svAmI.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives support from the kaushItakI Upanishad –
eshalokAdhipatih (3.9).
SrI cinmayAnanda comments that He is loka-svAmI in the sense that He is the
Creator, Controller, Director, the Lord and the Governor of all fields-ofexperience
of all creatures, at all times, everywhere; He is the Consciousness
that illumines matter.
SrI vAsishTha gives an alternate interpretation, based on “One Who has lokam
or the Universe as His svam or aiSvaryam”. Adding the affix Amin to the word
loka-svam, he derives the meaning for the nAma as “The Lord Who has the
Universe as His wealth”.
nAma 757. iÇlaekx&t! tri tri-loka tri loka-dhRt loka dhRt
a) He Who supports the three worlds (the worlds above, the worlds below, and
earth in the middle).
b) The Supporter of the three states of experience (waking, dream and deep
sleep)
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