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champakam • January 25, 2003 


      SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 84 - kRta-karmA.

794. kRta-karmA – a) He Who practiced the acts He preached to the 
asura-s, in order to convince them.
		b) One Who has achieved all there is to achieve.
		c) One Who keeps repeating the processes of creation 
etc., with perfection
		d) One Who has performed acts that no one else can 
ever perform.

om kRta-karmaNe namah.

a) SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam is that bhagavAn played His role of 
deception by following the practices that He preached to the asura-s, 
to ensure that they believed in Him completely – svayam anushThita 
tad-AcArah.  SrI v.v. rAmAnujan comments that bhagavAn stressed the 
motto "ahimsA paramo dharmah" to the exclusion of every other code, 
and made sure that the asura-s rejected vedic sacrifices and such 
other acts.  

b) SrI Sa'nkara gives the interpretation that He has the nAma 
because "He is One of fulfilled activities", that is, He has nothing 
more to achieve – na kartavyam ki'ncidapi karma asya vidyata iti kRta-
karmA.

SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj refers us to gItA 3.22:

	na me pArtha asti kartavyam trishu lokeshu ki'ncana   |
	na anavAptam avAptavyam varta eva ca karmaNi  ||       (gItA 
3.22)

"For Me, arjuna, there is nothing in all the three worlds that is 
left yet to be done, nor is there anything unacquired that ought to 
be still acquired.  Yet I go on working."

c) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives the interpretation that the nAma 
signifies that bhagavAn is "One Who keeps repeating the process of 
creation, protection, and destruction in cycles – One Who keeps doing 
these actions again and again" – kRtameva jal-lakshaNam karma punah 
punah karoti.  He gives the Rg vedic mantra "yathA pUrvam akalpayat" 
(Rg. 10.190.3) – "He created everything as before", in support.   

d) SrI vAsishTha gives an alternate interpretation as well – He Who 
performs the work that no one else can do" – anyaih kartum anarham 
bahubhirapi yat karma, tat karoti iti kRta-karmA.  He gives the 
example of the function of the sun appearing and setting unendingly 
every day from the beginning of the world, and continuing till the 
end of the world.  This process of creation is something that no one 
else do, with perfection, over and over again. 

SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshaN, a follower of the caitanya tradition, has 
the anubhavam of the nAma in terms of the many acts of kRshNa that 
are in the category of "No one else can do" – the slaying of 
narakAsura, the liberation of the 16000 rAja kumAri-s who had been 
imprisoned by him, the fetching of pArijAta tree for satyabhAmA, the 
victory over rudra in the battle with bANAsura, the freeing of 
aniruddha and usha, etc.

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan



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