SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 87 - sarvato-mukhah.
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• March 15, 2003
SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 87 - sarvato-mukhah. 822. sarvato-mukhah – a) He Who can be approached from many paths. b) He Who has faces on all sides. Om sarvato-mukhAya namah. sarvatah means "from all sides, in every direction, everywhere". mukham means mouth, face, and in a generic sense, to an opening. a) SrI BhaTTar gives the interpretation that the nAma signifies that there are many ways of accessing and attaining Him. He has not laid down any rule that He can be attained only by a particular means and not by another. On the other hand, He can be easily attained by means that are sometimes inexplicably simple – yena kenApi vyAjena supraveSatvAt sarvato-mukhah. SrI v.v. rAmAnujan refers us to SaraNAgati gadyam 17, where emperumAn tells bhagavad rAmAnuja: yena kenApi prakAreNa dvaya vaktA tvam kevalam madIyayaiva dayayA – As long as one surrenders with the utterance of the dvaya mantra with or without sincerity, the natural Divine Grace of bhagavAn will protect this person. Be it with sincerity (sa-hRdaya), or with feigned sincerity (a-hRdaya), one who needs immediate help (Arta), or one who may need support sometime in the future (dRpta), one who is His friend or one who is His sworn enemy (such as rAvaNa), as long one approaches Him in the name of SaraNagati, it is His vow to protect that person. During vibhIshaNa saraNAgati, Lord rAma tells sugrIva that He considers it the sworn duty of a dharmishTan to protect anyone who surrenders to him, even by giving up his own life if needed – Arto vA yadi vA dRptah pareshAm SaraNAgatah | arih prANAn parityajya rakshitavyah kRtAtmanA || (yuddha kANDam 18.28). b) SrI Sa'nkara's vyAkhyAnam is that the name signifies that bhagavAn has faces on all sides – sarvatah pANi-pAdam tat sarvato'kshi Siro mukham | sarvatah Srutiman loke sarvam AvRtya tishThati || (gItA 13.13) "Everywhere are Its hands and feet; Its eyes, heads and mouths are everywhere; Its ears are on all sides; and It exists encompassing all things". SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives references to the Sruti in support: - viSvataS-cakshuruta viSvato-mukhah (tai. AraN. 10.1) - pratya'ng-janAs-tishThati sarvato-mukhah (SvetASva. 2.16) - pratya'ng-mukhAs-tishThati viSvato-mukhah (tait. AraN. 10.1) SrI cinmayAnanda gives the analogy of the sun whose light shines in all directions, or the light from a lamp that shines in all directions simultaneously. Yet another anubhavam is given by SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj – Bhakta- s are singing His praise from all sides simultaneously, and He has faces on all sides to listen to all of them simultaneously - sarvAsu diSAsu bhajamAnaih bhaktair-hi SrImad bhagavato mukham avalokyate | A similar interpretation is given by SrI baladeva vidyA bhUshaN – atah sarvato-mukhah sarva-dig-deSa-vartishu bhakteshu mukham asya iti sarvato-mukhah. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan -------------------------------------------------------------- - 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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