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) His being adorned with all different kinds of beautiful ornaments;
c) His adorning this Universe with all kinds of beautiful creations and equipping
them with qualities such as love and intellect, and above all, giving them the
vital force of life by being their antaryAmi;
d) His adorning the Universe through His different incarnations, and thus
decorating the place where He is by His very presence.
nAma 636. ÉUit> bhUtih
a) He Who is wealth to Hisdevotees.
b) He Who is the personification of Glory.
c) He Who is the cause of all glory in His creations.
d) He Who exists in the forms of all His creations.
bhUtaye namah.
The root from which the nAma can be derived is bhU - sattAyAm - to be, to
live,to be born.
The nAma can also mean vibhUti - wealth. SrI cinmayAnanda quotes amarakoSa
- vibhUti bhUtir_aiSvarye. The other amara koSa definitions are bhavati iti
bhUtih, and bhavati anayA SrImAn iti bhUtih, which support the two meanings
indicated. The different interpretations for this nAma are centered on these
two meanings.
a) SrI BhaTTar explains that He is the wealth in every way to those who
havetotally surrendered to Him, and so He is called bhUtih. nammAzhvAr
captures this sentiment in tiruvAimozhi 5. 1. 8: "SelEi kaNNiyarum perum
Selvamum nan makkaLum mElAt tAi tandaiyum avarE iniAvArE" (SrI v. v.
rAmAnujan). SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj echoesthe same idea in his
interpretation - paramA sampath bhaktAnAm iti bhUtih.
b) Among the interpretations SrI Samkara gives are: a) BhavagavAn is called
bhUtih because He Himself is the embodiment of Glory (vibhUtih), or, b) He is
the cause of all glories in all His creations, or the source of all glorious
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