SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 83 - dur-jayah.
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• January 4, 2003
SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 83 - dur-jayah. 781. dur-jayah – a) He Who cannot be under control except by devotion. b) He Who is Invincible. c) He Who makes it possible for us to conquer duhkham. d) He Who can be won over by difficult practices such as samAdhi etc. Om dur-jayAya namah. dus is an upasarga. ji – jaye – to conquer, is the root involved. a) SrI BhaTTar’s vyAkhyAnam is that it is impossible to bring Him under control by the ordinary power of human or divine beings. The only thing by which He can be conquered is through total surrender (SaraNAgati) or through total devotion (bhakti), of which SaraNAgati is an a’ga. SrI satyadevo vAsishTha observes that anyone who follows the SAstric rules, and who performs actions consistent with His dictates, will always be successful. This is because bhagavAn resides in these people in His form as dur-jayah. This nAma is essentially same as the nAma a-parAjitah (nAma 721, Slokam 76, and nAma 866 in Slokam 92), and ajitah (nAma 553 in Slokam 59). In SrI BhaTTar’s scheme of organization of the nAma-s into groups, nAma 553 in interpreted in the group of names that describe Him as Suddha-sattva-svarUpI, nAma 721 is part of the same group that the current nAma belongs to, in that they both are part of the description in terms of the kRshNa incarnation. nAma 866 is part of nAma-s that stress His guNa as a dushTa-nigrahan – One Who punishes the dushTa-s. So it is interesting to see how SrI BhaTTar achieves differentiation in the interpretation of these three similar nAma-s in their four instances. For nAma 553, where SrI BhaTTar’s interpretation is in terms of bhagavAn being of Suddha-sattva svarUpam, his anubhavam is that bhagavAn has this nAma because He is the Owner of parama padam, whose other names are ajitA, aparAjitA, ayodhyA, etc. Everything here is composed of Suddha-sattva material, and birth and death are unknown because nothing is composed of perishable material. See Slokam 59 for details on this nAma. For nAma 721, SrI BhaTTar gives the interpretation in terms of Lord kRshNa’s role in the mahAbhAratra war (see the detailed write-up for nAma 721 in Slokam 76). For the current nAma, SrI BhaTTar gives the interpretation that He cannot be brought under control or won over, except when He wishes to reveal Himself – yan-na darSitavAn esha kas-tad-anveshTum arhati – “If He does not show Himself, Who can succeed in seeking and finding Him?” For nAma 866, in the guNAnubhavam of His dushTa nigrahatvam, the interpretation given is that it is impossible for anyone to obstruct Him, at any time, through any means, in His function as the Ruler over everyone and everything. In fact, all that is required to ensure invincibility for anyone is His blessing: yasya mantrI ca goptA ca suhRc-caiva janArdanah | haih trai-lokya-nAthah san kim nu tasya na nirjitam || (mahA bhArata udyoga. ) “What is there in this world that cannot be conquered by that person who has bhagavAn Hari as his mentor, protector, and friend?” Thus, all four interpretations describe His invincibility, but in each instance a different aspect of His invincibility is stressed. b) The corresponding vyAkhyAna-s of SrI Sa’nkara are: - For nAma ajitah in Slokam 59, “He Who has never been conquered in any of His Incarnations” – kenApyavatAreshu na jitah iti ajitah. - for aparajitah in Slokam 76, “He Who has conquered desires and the rest internally, and the demons and others externally”. - For dur-jayah in the current Slokam, “He Who is Invincible” – jetum na Sakyata iti dur-jayah. - For the instance aparAjitah in Slokam 92, “Unconquered by gods and men” – Satrubhih na parAjita iti aparAjitah. c) Coming back to the interpretations for the specific nAma dur-jayah, in addition to the interpretation ‘jetum na Sakyah dur-jayah’, SrI satya sandha yatirAja gives an alternate interpretation that He has the nAma dur-jayah because He makes it possible for us to conquer duhkha – duhkhasya jayo yasmAt iti dur-jayah. d) SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshaN gives yet another diversity to the anubhavam: duh-sAdhena samAdhinA jIyate hRdi vaSIkriyate iti dur-jayah – He Who is won over by the difficult practices such as samAdhi etc. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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