Nov 12, 2008

Stanza-091

भारभृत् कथितो योगी योगीशः सर्वकामदः ।
आश्रमः श्रमणःक्षामः सुपर्णो वायुवाहनः ॥

ഭാരഭൃത് കഥിതോ യോഗി യോഗീശഃ സര്വകാമദഃ
ആശ്രമഃ ശ്രമണഃ ക്ഷാമഃ സുപര്ണോ വായുവാഹനഃ

பாரப்ருத் கதிதோ யோகி யோகீச சர்வகாமத
ஆஸ்ரம ஸ்ரமண க்ஷாம சுபர்ணோ வாயுவாஹன

ಭಾರಭೃತ ಕಥಿತೋ ಯೋಗಿ ಯೋಗೀಶಃ ಸರ್ವಕಾಮದಃ
ಆಶ್ರಮಃ ಶ್ರಮಣಃ ಕ್ಷಾಮಃ ಸುಪರ್ಣೊ ವಾಯುವಾಹನಃ

భారభృత్ కథితో యోగి యోగీశః సర్వకామదః
ఆశ్రమః శ్రమణః క్షామః సుపర్ణో వాయువాహనః

bhaarabhritkathito yogee yogeesah sarvakaamadah
aasramah sramanah kshaamah suparno vaayuvaahanah

847. Bhaara-bhrit – “One Who carries the load of the Universe.” This carrying is not as a man would carry a load-something other than himself. The Self Itself has become the world so here it means only that Narayana is the very material Cause of the Universe.
848. Kathitah – “One Who is glorified in the Vedas and other spiritual text books.” Narayana-essence is the theme of all scriptures in the world.
849. Yogee – “One Who can be realised through Yoga:” “One Who is the greatest Yogee.” The term Yoga is defined in the Sastra as ‘stopping all thought flow.’ One who has no thought agitations-who has totally conquered the mind( Maayaa) and lives in His own Effulgent Self-nature is the greatest Yogee.
850. Yogeesah – “The King of Yogees.” “One who realises the Self, becomes the Self,” is an Upanishadic declaration. Therefore, Self alone is the perfect Yogee and Sree Narayana, the Self, is the King of all Yogees. The sense of agency-in-action and the sense of enjoyership-in- experience is the ego (Jeeva-bhaavanaa). To end this ego-personality is to rise to the awareness of the Universal Consciousness, the Self. Sree Narayana, the Absolute Reality, alone can be free-entirely and fully-from any involvement while being ever in the midst of Samsar and its seething activities. Hence He is glorified as the best among Yogees.
851. Sarvakaamadah – “One Who fulfils all desires of all true devotees.” Such devotees have no other desire but to reach, meet and merge in Him. In this way the term would also indicate that He destroys the chances of fulfilment of all unholy, sensuous and lusty desires in the faithless.
852. Aasramah - Sree Narayana is the harbour, the sequestered haven for all who are tossed about in the storms of life without and within. For each one, the source of all strains is attributable entirely to his functioning as a body-mind-intellect equipment. To remain as the Self-the essential real nature of man-is to experience the end of all stresses and strains. This state of Peace and Joy, of Quiet and Bliss is Sree Narayana, the Lord of the heart.
853. Sramanah – “One Who persecutes the worldly people”- who, driven by their hungers and passions, seek sense-gratifications. By the very nature of the ephemeral sense-objects and the ever-changing instruments of experience in us, the life of gratifications can only yield exhausting fatigue and weary disappointments. This is the ‘Law’ and Sree Narayana is the ‘Law-Giver.’ The Law and the Law-Giver are but one in theology.
854. Kshaamah – “One Who destroys everything during the final deluge”- He who prunes our agitations and shrinks our desire-prompted world-projections.
855. Suparnah – “The Golden Leaf.” In Bhagavad Geeta the world is pictured as the Asvattha tree and its leaves are declared to be the Vedas. The theme of the Vedas is none other than the Self, making the term extremely en- chanting with its springs of suggestions.
856. Vaayu-vaahanah – “The mover of the winds.” From fear of Him Fire burns, Sun and Moon function, earth rotates, the Wind moves....declares the Upanishad.

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Credits

Inspiration & courtesy:
Contribution of Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Professor, Department of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, U.S.A.

Sanskrit script Courtesy:
Shri. N. Krishnamachari