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SrI vishNU sahasra nAmam - Slokam 81 - tejo-vRshah.

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Narasimhan Krishnamachari • December 18, 2002 


             
              SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam – Slokam 81.

tejo-vRsho dyut-dharah sarva-Sastra-bhRtAm-varah     |
pragraho nigraho vyagro naika-SRÂ’ngo gadAgrajah      ||

om tejo-vRshAya namah
om dyuti-dharAya namah
om sarva-Sastra-bhRtAm-varAya namah
om prgrahAya namah
om nigrahAya namah
om vyagrAya namah
om naika-SrÂ’ngAya namah
om gadAgrajAya namah

763. tejo-vRshah – a) He Who showers His splendor on His devotees in
the form of His protection.
		b) He Who showers rain through the sun.
		c) He Who showers His radiance on everything.
		d) He Who showers His fierce weapons on His enemies in defense of His
devotees.

Om tejo-vRshAya namah.

The two roots applicable to this nAma are given by SrI satyadevo
vAsishTha as: tij – niSAne – to whet, or tej – niSAne, pAlane ca – to
whet, to protect, and vRsh – secana – to rain, to shower.   tejah also
can refer to tejas – luster, light, brilliance, splendor.   varshati
iti vRshah.    Thus, the nAma can mean One who showers brightness, One
who showers protection, etc.

a) SrI bhaTTar emphasizes the meaning “protection” in his
interpretation:  evam suhRt-pAlana lakshaNam tejo varshati iti
tejo-vRshah – “Thus He showers splendor in the form of protection of
the good-hearted beings.  So He is tejo-vRshah”.  
As all of us know, SrI bhaTTar sees a connection through the sequence
of nAma-s, and the current nAma-s are being interpreted as referring to
the kRshNa incarnation.  So here the protection of the cows and the
cowherds that we saw in the previous nAma is being referred to.    

SrI v.v. rAmAnujan explains the nAma as referring to bhagavAn showering
His tejas or Sakti on His devotees in the form of His protection.   The
innocent folks in AyarpADi loved kaNNan with all their hearts, and He
showered His Grace and protection on them even as the mother cow
secretes the milk for its calf with all its heart.

b) The word tejas also refers to water, and SrI SaÂ’nkara uses this
meaning in his interpretation – tejasAm ambhasAm Aditya rUpeNa
varshaNAt tejovRshah – He always showers rain through the medium of the
sun.   SrI ananta kRshNa SAstri elaborates:  tejAmsi AdAya Aditya
rUpeNa varshati vA.  

The dharma carkam writer points out that just as the sea water, which
by itself is unusable for most purposes, is converted by the sun into
potable and usable water, so also the thought of bhagavAn distills our
mind and purifies it from bad thoughts.  Just as we cannot live without
water, we cannot live without Him either.  Just as the sun keeps
functioning behind our conscious thoughts to purify the sea water into
a form that is usable by us, so also His Grace is always functioning to
purify our thoughts constantly.   

c) The anubhavaam of SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj is that this nAma
indicates that He showers His luster on everything because of His
divine and auspicious Form – SrI vigrahAt tejasvinah prabhA kiraNAh
sarvatah prasaranti.   Whatever radiance a living organism has, is a
result of a miniscule fraction of His tejas.

d) SrI baladeva vidyA bhUshaN has yet another different interpretation:
 sva-bandhu rakshAyai cakrAdi duh-sahAni tejAmsi varshati iti
tejo-vRshah – He Who showers His magnificent weapons such as the cakra
(on the enemies) in the cause of protection of His bhandu-s (devotees),
is tejo-vRshah.  

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan

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