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to Me, it loses its form”.
The nine-syllabled mantra containing this nAma “(praNavam) kAla-nemi-nighne
namah” removes the root-cause of avidyA or ignorance, as summarized by the
author of nirukti:
kAla-cakrasya yA nemih avidyAklhyA ca durdharA
tAm nASayati yaScAsau kAla-nemi-nihA smRtah ||
navAksharo manurayam avidyA-mUla mocakah ||
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri explains that for those who are caught up in the
wheel of time (being born again and again?) because of avidyA, He stops this
wheel for them when they seek His help. He destroys their karmA-s
accumulated over time; He ensures that kAla (yama) does not get them in his
cycle, to be born again.
b) SrI Samkara interprets the nAma as a reference to His destroying the
asura by name kAlanemi – kAalanemim asuram nijaghAna iti kAlanemi-nihA.
kAlanemi was born later as kamsa, and bhagavAn destroyed kamsa also; so the
nAma can be interpreted as as a reference to His destroying kamsa.
SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives reference to SrImad bhAgavatam (10. 51.
42 – kAlanemi-hatah kamsah …), and gives the interpretation – kAlanemih
kamsah tasya nihanteti kAlanemi-nihA.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri also makes a reference to kamsa’s killing as an
interpretation for this nAma.
c) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives a different explanation. He uses the root hA
– to go, and interprets nihA as One who gives directions or makes things
happen. He interprets kAla as time, and nemi as the wheel, or that which keeps
going. So kAla nemi is interpreted as referring to the sun, and kAla-nemi-nihA
as He who makes the sun go, or who sets the direction for the sun, which sets
the direction for time.
d) SrI cinmayAnanda gives the interpretation that the Supreme Self is called
kAlanemi nihA because Self is beyond the reach of intellect, and time is but a
concept of intellect only, and since He is beyond this wheel of Time, He is
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