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VISNU SAHASRA-NAMA-II |
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| God is not only all things and beings, but also space and time, or space-time:
samvatsarah (91, 422), the year as well as space for all beings to dwell in;
ahah (90) Day;
ahah-samvartakah (232), the Regulator of day;
rtuh (416), the Seasons;
yugadikrt (300), He who makes the yugas;
yugavartah (301), He who makes them turn;
kalah (418), Time that measures all things. If God be wholly immanent and nothing more than the world, the defects of the latter would have to be predicated of Him. Such a God would be a limited deity, at the mercy of the vicissitudes of the world. God would then be a samsarin, although a glorified samsarin, primus inter pares, foremost, but only among equals. Hence the need to recognize the transcendence of God. Scripture declares: "A quarter of Him are all beings; three quarters of Him are in the immortal Heaven". In the Bhagavad-Gita Sri-Krsna says: "Supporting the whole universe but by one part, do I stand". A few of the many names in the Sahasranama which refer to the transcendent nature of Visnu are the following: ekapat (772), the one-footed; jyesthah (67), the Eldest; sresthah (68), the Excellent; brhat (836) the Big; mahan (840), the Great; srasta (588, 990), the Creator; visvayonih (117, 149), the source of the universe, the All-Cause; loka-nathah (733), the Lord of the universe; loka-bandhuh (733), its Friend; loka-svami (750), its Master; lokadhyaksah (133), the Witness of the world; lokadhisthanam (894), the Stay of the universe; trilokadhrk (751), the supporter of the three worlds; trilokesah (647), their Ruler; lokatryasrayah (614), their Refuge. |
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