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SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 85 - su-locanah.

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champakam • February 3, 2003 


     SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 85 - su-locanah.

800. su-locanah – a) One with bewitching eyes.
		b) He of superior wisdom.
		c) One Who has the wisdom and the vision of the Self.
		d) He Who gives everyone else the ability to see.

om su-locanAya namah.

su is an upasarga.  The root involved is loc – darSane – to see.

a) SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam is – tathA hRdayAlu-cora-locanah su-
locanah – He is called su-locanah because (in His Buddha incarnation) 
He had charming eyes which enticed the tender-hearted.  He gives 
support from vishNu purANa -  

  - punaSca raktAmbaradhRk mAyA-mohah a-jitekshaNah (VP 3.18.16) – He 
was clad in crimson robes, and had eyes which were unconquered; and 
He deluded the minds of all by His mAyA.

As we all know, His beauty is not something that is used by Him only 
for deluding the asura-s, but also for drawing His devotees closer to 
Him.  ANDAL praises His beauty in many places in her pASuram-s, and 
SrI v.v. rAmAnujan refers us to one of these instances, in nAcciyAr 
tirumozhi 11.2 – 

    en ara'ngattu in-amudar kuzhal-azhagar vAi-azhaghar, kaN-azhagar, 
koppUzhil ezhu-kamalap pU-azhagar em-AnAr –

"My sweet nectar who resides in SrI ra'ngam, the One Who has 
beautiful hair, beautiful mouth, beautiful eyes, One from whose 
beautiful navel sprouts the beautiful lotus, the One Who has 
subjugated me as His own by His beauty".  One almost senses the 
exclamation "aiyo" of tiruppANAzhvar here.  

The nAlAyiram is full of references to the beauty of His eyes and the 
beauty of His tirumEni  (Sem tAmariak kaNNan, pavala vAi, kamalac 
ce'nkaN,.. ..), and they are too numerous to list.

b) SrI Sa'nkara gives the interpretation that He has the nAma because 
of His beautiful eyes, and alternatively, assigns the 
meaning "j~nAnam" to the word locanam, and gives the alternate 
meaning – He of superior wisdom – Sobhanam locanam nayanam j~nAnam vA 
asya iti su-locanah.

c) SrI cinmayAnanda points out that in addition to the beauty of His 
form that is reflected and enhanced by His beautiful eyes, the 
significance of the term "beauty" here is that His eyes can see 
constantly the infinite purpose and goal of the entire creation.  
These eyes of His can simultaneously perceive everything that is 
happening in all the three worlds all the time, not only the present, 
but the past and the future as well.  Thus, he gives the meaning "One 
who has the wisdom of the Self", to this nAma.  

d) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives the meaning that He has this nAma 
because of His beautiful eyes, and in addition, he gives the 
alternate interpretation that the nAma signifies that because of Him, 
the rest of the creation is able to see well, in His manifestation as 
the sun – samyag locante prANino yasmin udite sati iti su-locanah 
sUryah.  The sun and the moon are considered His two eyes – candra 
sUryau ca netre.  

Thus ends the commentary on the Eight Hundred names of Lord SrI MahA 
vishNu.

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan





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