Namaskar Mahatmas!

RECAP:

• Amoghah – The Lord is the ever ful-filler of all our wishes and demands
• Pundareekaakshah – One who we can be in touch and fully experience in the Heart Space.
• Vrishakarmaa – One whose very activity is Dharma and one who acts only to establish righteousness
• Vrishaakritih – One who is of the form of Dharma; He and Dharma are one and the same.

RUDRO BAHU-SIRAA BABHRUR VISVAYONIS-SUCHI-SRAVAAH

RUDRAH: One who makes all the people weep. At the time of death or at the time of dissolution, the Lord who makes everyone to weep is Rudrah. We can also understand this name Rudrah, as one who liquidates all our sorrows in no time. In the tenth chapter of Gita, Lord Krishna says “Among the Rudras, I am Shankara”. According to our Vedas there are eleven Rudras and the eleventh Rudra is Shankara – One who blesses all with Auspiciousness.

BAHUSIRAAH: One who has many heads is called ‘Bahusiraah’. The Purushasuktam describes the Lord as “The Purusha of thousand heads, thousand eyes and thousand feet”. In Gita the Lord is described as “Everywhere legs, everywhere hands, everywhere eyes, everywhere His face” – which underlines the subtle meaning that whatever we see is He alone; the hands at work is His; the legs that walk is His; the tongue that speaks is His; the face we see be it an animal or a human or any creature is He alone. All the different names and forms, which are innumerable is the Lord, Bahusiraah.

BABHRUH: One who rules over the world like a king. In Atmabodham it is explained that: “He in whose presence all the instruments of perception, feeling and knowing continue their co-ordinated activity is the Self, the Atman”, who is the Great Lord Vishnu.

VISVAYONIH: Yoni means womb. The womb from which thoughts and actions had arisen is Visvayonih. The Lord is the total cause from which alone the entire world of experiences has come out.

SUCHISRAVAAH: One who has the beautiful and efficient ears is Suchisravaah. It also means one who has Divine and sacred names. We will surely accept that the Lord has beautiful and efficient ears with our experiences. The Lord has answered Gajendra, the elephant, Draupati, Meera, Andaal, Appar, Manikavaachakar, Thyagarajar and many other devotees in a winking time. A devotee can invoke Him with even one of these thousand names of the Lord and He can readily listen in and rightly understand the exact purity and the inner depth of devotion in us. The Lord’s name is the worthy of being heard by seekers.

Nama is the prince of all righteous actions, sat-karmas, for sat is God, and therefore that alone is sat-karma which leads to Him. Nama is a sovereign cure for Bhava-roga, the disease of worldliness. Nama directs our love to God, detaching it from its present object, the world. Nama relieves us from all pain and misery. God, His name, and His devotee form the divine trio – Shri Gondavalekar Maharaj

Hari Om Mahatmas! We will meet tomorrow.