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उत्तारणो दुष्कृतिहा पुण्यो दुःस्वप्ननाशनः ।
वीरहा रक्षणः सन्तो जीवनः पर्यवस्थितः ॥

ഉത്താരണോ ദുഷ്കൃതിഹാ പുണ്യോ ദുസ്വപ്നനാശനഃ
വീരഹാ രക്ഷണഃ സന്തോ ജീവനഃ പര്യവസ്ഥിതഃ

உத்தாரணோ துஷக்ரிதிஹா புண்யோ துஸ்வப்னநாசன
வீரஹா ரக்ஷண சந்தோ ஜீவன பர்யவஸ்தித

ಉತ್ತಾರಣೋ ದುಷ್ಕೃತಿಹಾ ಪುಣ್ಯೋ ದುಃಸ್ವಪ್ನನಾಶನಃ
ವೀರಹಾ ರಕ್ಷಣಃ ಸಂತೋ ಜೀವನಃ ಪರ್ಯವಸ್ಥಿತಃ

ఉత్తారణో దుష్కృతిహా పుణ్యో దుఃస్వప్ననాశనః
వీరహా రక్షణః సంతో జీవనః పర్యవస్థితః

uttaarano dushkritihaa punyo duhsvapnanaasanah
veerahaa rakshanah santo jeevanah paryavasthitah


923. Uttaaranah – “One who lifts us out of the ocean-of-change.” We, by identifying through our body- mind-intellect, with the changing whirls of matter around us, assume to ourselves the changes and these provide us, in their totality, the horrible sorrow of the mortal finitude. On lifting our attention from the giddy changes in these whirls of finite matter, when we fix it upon Him, the one Consciousness that illumines all changes in all living creatures, we get uplifted into a state of Immortality-Changeless, Blissful, Supremely Satisfying. Hence, Sree Narayana is called as the ‘Up-lifter,’ the ‘Saviour.’ The ‘Taara-mantra’ lifts us from the cesspool of sense living into the serener climes of the lit-up peaks of peace and perfection.
924. Dushkritihaa – ‘Kriti’ means actions; ‘Dush-kriti’ means bad actions. When actions are undertaken, prompted by sensuous desires, they leave impressions (vaasanaas) and these always have a tendency to make us repeat similar actions. When one turns the mind towards Narayana,-the Self, he is emptied of his existing vaasanaas, so Lord is indicated as the ‘destroyer (Haa) of the sins.’
925. Punyah – “Supremely Pure.” One who purifies the heart of His devotee-removing all his sensehunting vaasanaas of indulgence. Sree Narayana guides the pure-hearted to the portals of the final goal, the Higher Consciousness.
926. Duh-svapna-naasanah – “One who destroys all ‘bad dreams’.” The worst dream is the samsar. Perception of plurality is the horrible dream of terrible pangs, consuming fears and drowning sorrows. Dreams are explosions of the suppressions stored away in the subconscious. A real devotee exists in utter surrender unto the Lord. When his life is ever-centred in Narayana-smarana, in such total and humble dedication he has no chance of earning these suppressions. Since his sub-conscious mind is not loaded with half-digested thoughts and unexpressed intentions, repressed desires and suppressed motives, immoral passions and covetous inclinations, he has no fearful dreams in his daily sleep. Ultimately each seeker will rise above his little ego and its hungers and enters into the plane of Narayana-Consciousness.
927. Veerahaa – “One Who ends the passage from womb-to-womb-the wheel of birth and death.” ‘Veera’ means diversified ways, or one who functions in innumerable fields in countless ways.
928. Rakshanah - “One who is the Protector of the Universe.” Among the Trinity, Vishnu is the Protector, the Sustainer of all the created. “For the protection of the good, the destruction of the wicked and the establishment of righteousness, He takes different Incarnations.”
929. Santah - This term, used in the plural number, indicates “the good people.” They are considered as “good” who have moral virtues, ethical values, spiritual purity and scriptural knowledge. By using the plural form here, the import is that the holy beauty of Sree Narayana is found expressed in the glory of such a company of good and saintly men.
930. Jeevanah – “The Life-Spark in all living creatures.” The Flame-of-Existence that warns an organism to life is the presiding Consciousness Supreme, the Self. This Self is Narayana. “Permeating the earth I support all beings by (My) energy; and having become the juicy Moon I nourish all herbs”-is the declaration of Bhagavan. 931. Paryavasthitah - In all places, in all creatures, He dwells. He is the final Factor-Divine beyond which there is nothing, and upon which all else depends.