THE 108 NAMES OF SRI BHAGAVAN We had done 82nd Name of Bhagavan’s yesterday totalling 9 counting from ascending order…today’s 9 Names will be from 81st – 73rd. These names like the earlier names posted on timeline will be with explanations. 81.Mahabhagah: One who is endowed with the noblest Qualities. [The egoless person is the dwelling place of all greatness and goodness.] Om Mahabhagaya namah. 80.Atmaramah: One who rejoices in the Self. [The Gita praises one whose bliss is in the Self as atmarati,atmantrpta,atmasantushtah. Bhagavan was nirvikara, nityopasanta, unchanging , ever serene because he rejoiced in the bliss, the contentment, the simple purity of awareness .] Om Atmaramaya namah. 79.Sarva sadguni: Possessor of all good qualities. [ He did not pursue, practise and acquire one good quality after another. He realized the Self, and all good qualities flocked to him unsought. Bad qualities arise from identification with the body-mind. Identification with awareness dispels all bad qualities and brings in all good qualities. One made up of awareness has all the daivik endowments, all divine, auspicious qualities, as his inherent and natural splendour.] Om Atmaramaya namah. 78. Sarvavani matsthanam aradhyah: One adored by the followers of all religions in the whole world. [Advaita sums up and transcends all the different creeds. The goal and the core of all religions is the experience of oneness, the direct realization of the Self. Bhagavan enjoyed and expressed this experience and is therefore adored by Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Hindus of all schools. In Him we find the final fulfilment of every creed.] Om Sarvavani matasthanam aradhyaya namah. 77.Atmavan: Ever-composed and Self-possessed. [Bhagavan is all atman. Not being any one single body, he is all bodies as the atman or awareness equally present in them all. He is the one indivisible Being-Awareness dwelling as Bliss in all creatures. Awareness is Bhagavan’s whole being and nature and sole possession. He knows the Self, enjoys the Self, is the Self.] Om Atmavate namah. 76.Soumyah: Embodiment and auspiciousness, of benevolence. [Peaceful, sweet and gentle, he is capable only of spreading goodness. Cool like the moon, ambrosial like the soma juice.] Om Soumyaya namah. 75.Rasajnah: Relisher of rasa, of enjoyment. [There is a lot of difference between rasika and rasajna. A rasika enjoys beautiful things, he is a man of taste. A rasajna enjoys enjoyment as a mode of awareness and is therefore free from the triputi[triad] of enjoyer, that which is enjoyed and the act of enjoyment. In every act of enjoyment, his own or anyone else’s, Bhagavan saw only a manifestation of the one Being-Awareness-Bliss. He enjoyed not only what he as a person enjoyed but all the joy of all creation. God is rasa. Bhagavan as a rasajna knew God as rasa. Rasovaisah – He himself is rasa, enjoyment. He enjoys knowledge. He knows joy. He does not merely know or enjoy objects. Like a good parent who enjoys the child’s enjoyment of a story, he is sukhi sukhitva. Om Rasajnaya namah 74.Varnasrama matatitah: One who has transcended varna (caste-distinctions) and asrama(stages of life). [Varna and asrama are concepts based on the body-mind. When one has ceased to identify oneself with the body-mind the question of one’s conforming to or departing from the rules and limitations of this conceptual system does not arise. The experience of Reality ends all conceptual distinctions. Frontiers and boundaries, elevations and depressions, exist on earth; the ethereal sky of satchitananda is one and indivisible.] 73.Gitopadesa-saradi grantha sanchhinna samsayah: One who dispels all doubts by his Gita, Upadesa Sara and such other works. [ Kavkyakantha’s Ramana Gita in 18 chapters and 300 slokas is a modern masterpiece answering many questions raised by Ganapati Muni, his wife and other disciples. It is absolutely original in many parts and has high metaphysical and practical value for earnest seekers because it explains the most profound truths in simple, clear, precise language. If Ganapati Muni was responsible for Ramana Gita, another bee which sipped honey and made music at the lotus feet of Bhagavan was Muruganar, who was responsible for Upadesa Saram and Ulladu Narpadu. The former was translated into Sanskrit, Telegu and Malayalam by Bhagavan and the latter into Sanskrit by Kavyakantha. The common feature of these works, brief but clear, precise and definitive , is that they face and solve all the honest doubts that trouble earnest seekers. They are not theoretical or speculative treatises for study, but practical guides for sadhana and direct experience of Reality. They take the reader firmly by the hand and convince him that jnana is the all-pervasive basic or turiya element underlying and transcending Karma, bhakti and yoga, that these other methods are concerned with ‘becoming’, while jnana , concerned with ‘being’, includes and harmonizes these three modes of becoming. Bhagavan destroys every shadow of doubt by the light of jnana.] Om Gitopadesa saradi grantha samchinna samsayaya namah.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 05:52:58 +0000
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