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through His own Free Will. The four species are: those that come from an egg,
such as birds, serpent, etc.; the humming kind, such as the mosquito, bee, etc.;
the species such as trees, and the human species.
nAma 777. ctuveRdivt! catur catur-veda
catur veda-vit veda vit
a) He Who is known by those who are learned in the four veda-s.
b) He Who is the Knower of the four veda-s.
c) He Who makes it possible to know the four veda-s.
catur-veda-vide namah.
Literally, the term catur-veda-vit refers to one who is an expert in all the four
veda-s. This unequivocally applies only to bhagavAn. Other who are learned in
the four veda-s, see but a drop of the Great Ocean that He is, because the
magnificence displayed in the vyUha and vibhava is vast like the ocean, which
cannot be comprehended by anyone.
a) nammAzhvAr addresses Him as “maRaiyAya nAl vEdattuL ninRa malarc
cuDarE” in tiruvAimozhi 1.3.10 (SrI v.v. rAmAnujan).
SrI V. N. Vedanta deSikan points the use of the two words maRai and vedam, in
this pASuram. MaRai refers to this great secret being concealed from the
undevoted, and vedam refers to its being revealed to the great devotees. In
gItA 15.15, Lord kRshNa reveals that He is the Only One Who is to be known
from all the veda-s, He is the One Who created the veda-s, He is the One Who
brings about the fruition of the rituals of the veda-s, and He is the One Who
knows the veda-s –
“vedaiSca sarvam ahamevavedyah |
vedAnta-kRt, veda-videva cAham ||”.
To know Him as He is in parama padam is extremely difficult, to say the least.
But in His vyUha and vibhava incarnations, with His Grace, a tiny part of His
mahimA can be realized.
b) SrI Sa’nkara’s vyAkhyAnam is that He has this nAma because He is the Only
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