Stanza-096

सनात्सनातनतमः कपिलः कपिरव्ययः ।
स्वस्तिदः स्वत्सिकृत्स्वस्ति स्वस्तिभुक्स्वस्तिदक्षिणः ॥

സനാത്സനാതനതമഃ കപിലഃ കപിരവ്യയഃ
സ്വസ്തിദഃ സ്വത്സികൃത്സ്വസ്തി സ്വസ്തിഭുക്സ്വസ്തിദക്ഷിണഃ

ஸநாத்ஸனாதனதம கபில கபிரவ்யய
ஸ்வச்தித ஸ்வச்திக்ரித்ஸ்வச்தி ஸ்வச்திபுக்ஸ்வச்திதக்ஷிண

ಸನಾತ್ಸನಾತನತಮಃ ಕಪಿಲಃ ಕಪಿರವ್ಯಯಃ
ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿದಃ ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಕೃತ್ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿ ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಭುಕ್ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿದಕ್ಷಿಣಃ

సనాత్సనాతనతమః కపిలః కపిరవ్యయః
స్వస్తిదః స్వస్తికృత్స్వస్తి స్వస్తిభుక్స్వస్తిదక్షిణః

sanaat sanaatanatamah kapilah kapirapyayah
svastidah svastikrit svasti svastibhuk svastidakshinah

896. Sanaat – “The Beginningless and the Endless factor is He.” Time cannot condition Him. He, the Consciousness, illumines the very concept of Time and Space. He was, is and shall ever be-He being Changeless, Immutable.
897. Sanaatanatamah – “The most Ancient.” It is from Him that the very intellect springs forth and thereafter one of the concepts of the intellect is Time. Therefore, He is the most’ Ancient,’ inasmuch as He was already there to be aware of even the first experience of the beginning of Time.
898. Kapilah - The Lord Himself, manifested as the great Rishi Kapila, propounded the Saamkhya philosophy. In the Geeta, Bhagavan Sree Krishna declaring His own Glory, describes Himself: “I am Kapila among the great ones.”
899. Kapih – “One Who drinks water” -by one’s rays. The Sun it is that dries up everything, evaporating the water-content contained on the surface of the earth.
900. Apyayah – “The One in whom the entire Universe merges”-during the great deluge when the Total- mind-the Creator-rests. The Supreme Atman functioning through the Total-mind is the Creator, Brahmaaji-each mind being ruled by its own vaasanaas. The Total-vaasanaas in the Universe (Causal-Body) is Maayaa and the Supreme Self expressing through Maayaa (the Total-Causal-Body) is Eesvara. Therefore, Sree Narayana, as Eesvara, is the One into Whom the total world of experiences merges when the Total-mind rests during the ‘pause’ between two busy cycles of Creation and involvement in the projected world of thoughts-feelings-objects. In the north this term is read as Avyayah where the meaning is clear: “Immutable”: and needs no explanation.
901. Svasti-dah – “One Who gives Svasti to all His sincere devotees.” A true devotee is one who has discovered his fulfilment in seeking and gaining the Infinite Bliss that is Sree Hari. Naturally, he comes to turn away from the realms of inauspiciousness. To the extent he is able to move into the Hari-Consciousness, he is to that degree in the Bliss- Experience. Therefore, the Lord is termed as the ‘Giver-of- Auspiciousness.
902. Svasti-krit - As in many earlier terms which were preceded by the suffix ‘ Krit,’ here also, it expands into two meanings: “One Who brings Auspiciousness” -or “One who robs all Auspiciousness.” To the seeker who is moving towards the Narayana-Consciousness, his experience is of added joy and peace in life, but the one who seeks only sense-gratification and so moves away from the Reality, to him the experience is more and more sorrow, agitations, tears and tragedies-total inauspiciousness. The indeclinable (Avyaya) Sanskrit word ‘Svasti’ means Auspiciousness.
903. Svasti – “One Who is the Source of all Auspiciousness” -as He is Himself the Auspicious. In essence His Nature is Sat-Chit-Aananda so there can be no cause for inauspiciousness therein. The individual functions within the powers of His avidyaa and so is under the infatuation of Maayaa, while the Lord rules over Maayaa and plays out through Maayaa.
904. Svasti-bhuk - “One who constantly lives in His Experience a perpetual sense of holy Auspiciousness”-as it is His very nature-divine. It can also be interpreted as “One Who showers Grace and makes His devotees constantly experience Auspiciousness in their loving Narayana- centred hearts.”
905. Svasti-dakshinah - Lord is ever engaged in smartly distributing Auspiciousness. The word ‘Dakshinaa’ has, apart from the meaning of ‘gift,’ also a meaning: “One who is efficient and quick.” Therefore, the term indicates that Sree Narayana quickly and efficiently will reach His sincere seekers to give them the experience of Auspiciousness which is the Lord’s very nature.