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Saturday, May 16, 2026

the univeral form of Vishnu



भूः पादौ यस्य नाभिर्वियदसुरनिलश्चन्द्र सूर्यौ च नेत्रे
कर्णावाशाः शिरो द्यौर्मुखमपि दहनो यस्य वास्तेयमब्धिः |
अन्तःस्थं यस्य विश्वं सुरनरखगगोभोगिगन्धर्वदैत्यैः
चित्रं रंरम्यते तं त्रिभुवन वपुषं विष्णुमीशं नमामि ||
Shrutisaarasamuddharanam of Totakacharya
bhūḥ pādau yasya nābhirviyadasuranilaścandra sūryau ca netre
karṇāvāśāḥ śiro dyaurmukhamapi dahano yasya vāsteyamabdhiḥ ।
antaḥsthaṃ yasya viśvaṃ suranarakhagagobhogigandharvadaityaiḥ
citraṃ raṃramyate taṃ tribhuvana vapuṣaṃ viṣṇumīśaṃ namāmi ॥ ॥


I offer my Pranams to that All pervading Surpeme being Vishnu, who is having power and authority over everything in this univers,
Whose pair of feet are, or they cover the whole earth
Whose navel is the atmosphere

Whose life-breath is the wind blowing all over
Whose pair of eyes are the moon and the sun
Whose ears cover the entire cardinal directional points

Whose head is the sky

Whose face is as resplendent as the fire itself, who face is fire itself
Whose favourite abode is the sea, the milky ocean

Inside whom
the whole universe is placed and is functioning
the whole universe which is picturesquely populated and created for the enjoyments of Gods, humans birds, cattle, heavenly demigods Gandharvas, the nagas sarpas uragas and similar reptiles, the demonic people, daityas the sons of Diti,
The Lord is having the three worlds Bhoo, Bhuva and Suva… the earth, the middle world and the heaven as part of His body.

This slokam appears as the concluding stanza of Shrutisaarasamuddharanam of Totakaachaarya. We recite this stanza as the Dhyanaslokam of the Lord as a prelude to chanting Vishnu Sahasranaamam.



यस्य whose भूः पादौ pair of feet is the whole earth नाभिः वियत् whose navel is the atmosphere असुः अनिलः the lifebreath is the wind blowing all over नेत्रे चन्द्रसूर्यौ whose two eyes are the Sun and the moon कर्णौ आशाः whose ears are all the cardinal points शिरः द्यौ whose head is the sky मुखं दहनः whose face is the fire वास्तेयं अब्धिः whose abode is the sea च too
यस्य whose अन्तः स्थं being placed inside विश्वं the universe सुर gods नर men खग birds गो cattle भोगि reptiles गन्धर्व celestial demi gods.. gandharvas दैत्यैः the demons, sons of diti चित्रं picturesquely रं रम्यते shines for giving enjoyment to all तं him त्रिभुवन वपुषं who is having the three worlds, earth heaven and mid world as his body ईशं who is having absolute control over everything, spreads everywhere with authority विष्णुं that Lord.. the all pervading Vishnu नमामि I offer my Pranams.

ഭൂഃ പാദൌ യസ്യ നാഭിര്‍വിയദസുരനിലശ്ചന്ദ്ര സൂര്യൌ ച നേത്രേ
കര്‍ണാവാശാഃ ശിരോ ദ്യൌര്‍മുഖമപി ദഹനോ യസ്യ വാസ്തേയമബ്ധിഃ ।
അന്തഃസ്ഥം യസ്യ വിശ്വം സുരനരഖഗഗോഭോഗിഗന്ധര്‍വദൈത്യൈഃ
ചിത്രം രംരമ്യതേ തം ത്രിഭുവന വപുഷം വിഷ്ണുമീശം നമാമി ॥

പ്രപഞ്ചം മുഴുവന്‍ വ്യാപിച്ചു നില്‍ക്കുന്ന പരമാത്മാവായ വിഷ്ണുവിനെ ഞാന്‍ വണങ്ങുന്നു.
അവിടുന്നാണ് ഈ ലോകത്തിലുള്ള എല്ലാ വസ്തുക്കളുടെയും യഥാര്‍ത്ഥ ഉടയോന്‍.
അവിടുത്തെ കാലിണകള്‍ ഭൂമിയെ മുഴുവന്‍ വ്യാപിച്ചു നില്‍ക്കുന്നു.
അവിടുത്തെ നാഭി അന്തരീക്ഷം ആകുന്നു
അവിടുത്തെ ശ്വസനവായുവാകുന്നു ഈ പ്രപഞ്ചത്തില്‍ വീശുന്ന കാറ്റെല്ലാം
സൂര്യചന്ദ്രന്മാരാണ് അവിടുത്തെ ഇരു കണ്ണുകള്‍
അവിടുത്തെ ചെവികള്‍ പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിലെ പത്ത് ദിക്കുകളിലും വ്യാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.
അവിടുത്തെ ശിരസ്സ് ആകാശമാണ്‌.
അവിടുത്തെ മുഖം അഗ്നിപോലെ തേജസ്സുറ്റതാണ്, അഗ്നി തന്നെയാണ്.
അവിടുത്തേക്ക് ഏറ്റം പ്രിയമായ ഇരിപ്പിടം, പാലാഴി എന്ന സമുദ്രമാണ്.
അവിടുത്തെയുള്ളില്‍ ഈ പ്രപഞ്ചം പരിപൂര്‍ണ്ണമായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്നു, പ്രപഞ്ചം അവിടുത്തെയുള്ളില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നു.
അവിടുന്ന് എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും ആനന്ദത്തിനായി സൃഷ്ടിച്ച പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിലാണ് വൈവിധ്യം നിറഞ്ഞ ജീവന്മാര്‍, ദേവന്‍മാര്‍, മനുഷ്യര്‍, പക്ഷികള്‍, മൃഗങ്ങള്‍, സര്‍പ്പങ്ങളും നാഗങ്ങളും ഉരഗങ്ങളും അടങ്ങിയ ഭോഗി വര്‍ഗ്ഗം, ഗന്ധര്‍വ്വന്മാര്‍, ദിതിയുടെ മക്കളായ അസുരന്മാര്‍ എന്നെ പലേ രൂപങ്ങളിലും സന്തോഷത്തോടെ ജീവിക്കുന്നത്.
അവിടുന്ന്, ഭൂമി, ആകാശം.. സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗം , ( ഭൂര്ഭുവ സുവ ലോകങ്ങള്‍) മുഴുവന്‍ സ്വന്തം ദേഹമായി ഉള്‍ക്കൊണ്ട് വിരാജിക്കുന്നു.
തോടകാചാര്യരുടെ ശ്രുതിസാരസമുദ്ധരണം എന്ന കൃതിയുടെ അവസാനമായി ഈ ശ്ലോകം കാണാം.
വിഷ്ണുസഹസ്രനാമം പാരായണം ചെയ്യുമ്പോള്‍ ഭഗവാന്‍റെ ധ്യാനമായും ഈ ശ്ലോകം ചൊല്ലാറുണ്ട്

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Who else other than Krishna can protect us?



वेद्यो वैद्यः सदा योगी वीरहा माधवो मधुः vedyo vaidyaH sadaa yogee veeraha maadhavo madhuH.......
He is the doctor
औषधं जगतः सेतुः aushadam jagathaH sethuH
He is the medicine
पुण्यो दुःस्वप्ननाशनः punyo DuHswapna Naashanah
He dispels bad dreams
भूशयो भूषणो भूतिर विशोकः शोकनाशनः bhooshayo bhooshano bhoothir vishokaH shokanaashanaH
He saves us by destroying all our miseries
लोकबन्धुर्लोकनाथो माधवो भक्तवत्सलःlokabandhurlokanaatho maadhavo bhaktavatsalaH He is the relative of all,
He is the master of all.
And He loves us all.
प्रमाणं प्राणनिलयः प्राणभृत प्राण जीवनः pramaanam praana nilayaH praanabhrut praanajeevanaH
He is life,
He is the source and abode of life
these are all from Vishnu Sahasranamam.. (of course I have described only the protective features of the Lord.. and the quotes have greater meanings)
Who else other than Krishna can protect us?

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The context of VishnuSahasranamam in Bharatham



The context of VishnuSahasranamam in Bharatham is like this.

Bheeshma Pitamaha is defeated and covered all over his body by the arrows sent by Arjuna in the war and he is just lying in the battlefield in a bed of arrows awaiting death.. because he has the power to choose the time of death, and he wants to leave his mortal body when Uttarayanam starts..

Meanwhile the Pandavas win the battle, Yudhistira becomes king.. Krishna is present to assist in establishing the Pandavas securely in the throne. In spite of many discussions with Krishna and others, all feel that the final authority in law, politics and Dharma is Bheeshma alone, and so the King, accompanied by his brothers and also the Blessed Lord Krishna, pay a visit to the dying Patriarch Bheeshma, and the Grand old man willingly shares all his knowledge with the Emperor that too in the presence of the Eternal Being Krishna standing there is great reverence to the elderly warrior.
After discussing statecraft and law, the discussion turns to the means available for human beings to attain welfare in the earthly life as well as life of eternity thereafter..
Bheeshma lists the most important thousand names of Lord Narayana,, present before Him as Krishna the son of Devaki, and declares that chanting or contemplating on these thousand names is the ultimate for a human being in spiritual and temporal life..
The greatness of the mantra is that the dying old man is stating with ultimate faith and authenticity about the glory of the Supreme being, who just stands before him like an obedient child and listens..
And Bheeshma does not fail to deliver the final punch..."रथाङ्गपाणिरक्षोभ्यःसर्वप्रहरणायुधः rathaangapaanir akshobhyaH sarvapraharanaayuthaH --the man who wears the wheel of a chariot ready to strike...
Yes, Krishna has promised that He would never wield a weapon for strike in the Bharatha war, and Bheeshma was keen that the lord should be forced to wield the weapon..
In a fierce battle with Arjuna, where Krishna was the Charioteer, Bheeshma would disarm Arjuna and force Krishna to charge ahead with the wheel of a chariot in hand to attack Bheeshma and protect Arjuna.. and Bheesma withdraws at that moment in deference to the Blessed Lord Krishna..


In fact, it was just because Krishna wanted to admit defeat and break a promise for the sake of a pure devotee that such a thing happened..

It was the zenith of glory for Bheeshma and the old man concluded the Vishnusahasranamam, calling Krishna as the one who wielded the chariot wheel in battle, breaking a promise.

Monday, December 22, 2014

chanting Vishnu Sahasranamam

One mantram on which I have thorough and absolute initiation is Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam..
I can call five persons as my Guru..
Some boys of our agraharam, below the age ten, would be chased by three old men all in their seventies, and forced to sit in the praakaaram after the Garuda Mandapam of our Sekharipuram Lakshminarayanaswamy temple at 6-30 in the evening after the first Deeparadhana and we would be asked to accompany the elders in chanting Sahasranamam..
One was a Swaminatha Mama, One my own maternal Grandfather and another equally respected thatha.. whose name I am not able to recollect now, but his pious and simple form lingers before my eyes.
Then there will the Perumal and His Madam and Garuda Azhvar also listening..
(the Divine Couple Lakminarayana, Garuda Azhwar and the three elderly thathas were my five gurus)
If there are two dozen boys loitering in the street running around two or three would be caught, asked to wash legs and face, wear Vibhoothi and sit with the elders..
Initially, it was a torture and I could not utter any name properly..
But within a few days, the beauty of the names with its rhythm and sacredness percolated gradually into my mind..
So it is almost for sixty two years that I am under the spell of Vishvam Vishnur Vashatakaaro...
Someone who did not understand Vishnusahasranamam and its beauty was asking me the other day while I was chanting..

"After Wishing someone, and shouting at someone, you start calling bhoothams.. Are you trying to do some black magic?"
विश्वं विष्णुर् वषट् कारो भूत भव्य भवत् प्रभुः भूत कृत भूतभृत भावो भूतात्मा भ्प भूत भावनः पूतात्रमा पमात्मा च ... so many bhoothams ?
I can only reply..
एको विष्णुर् महत् भूतं पृथक् भूतानि अनेकशः त्रीन लोकान् व्याप्य भूतात्मा भुङ्ग्ते विश्वभुक् अव्ययः
Krishna the Vishnu is the Bhootham of immense dimensions, imposing size, that has encompassed all the other Bhoothams or beings of all variety, has spread over the entire Universe, and standing there is witnessing and enjoying everything.
स भूमिम् विश्वतो वृत्वा अत्यतिष्टत् दशाङ्गुलं.
Love you Sweet Krishna

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Vishvam Vishnur...



Maybe it is only a story...if you ask where it is found, in which purana, which chapter, which slokam.. No answer.

We know AdiShakarabhagavatPadaa wrote a commentary on Vishnusahasranamam.. Judging by the clear attachment of Shankara for the smartha way of life, this is an enigma.

There is a story abot it..

One day the Acharya was planning to compose a commentary on Lalitha Sahasranamam.. He asked his disciple Sureshwarachary to fetch the palm-leaves containing the text of Lalithasahasranamam from the inside of the Mutt..
The disciple went inside and brought a bundle of palm-leaves and to his surprise it was Vishnusahstranamam..
The Acharya pointed out the mistake and sent the disciple to fetch the correct text.

This time when the disciple went in he saw a cute girl of eight years red in colour and clad in red and this girl handed over a bundle of palm-leaves saying this that must be the book the Guru was searching for..

Dutifully Sureshwaracharya took the bundle, and when Acharyaswamikal opened it it was found that Vishnusahasranamam alone has been brought once again ..

The Guru asked the disciple as to why the wrong text was brought once again.

And Sureshwara replied that a small girl child was standing inside the mutt and had given him this text and insisted that it should be taken to the Guru ..

The acharya could not understand what was happening.

." A young girl in our mutt?.".

So the Master went in to verify what was happening, with Sureshwara following closely.. He saw the Girl of the hue of Sindooraaruna, clad in dark red dress, and she was telling.
" You describe the names of my brother, I am pleased to hear that more than mine.."

It was Gauri Lalithamahatripurasundari, instructing Shankara.. He prostrated at Her lotus feet and started explaining Vishnusahasranamam..

The great Bhagavatha exponent and Tapaswi , Brahmasri Sengalipuram Anantharama Deeskhitar has narrated this story in many of his discourses..

Saturday, February 11, 2012

viswam vishnur vashatkaro...

viswam vishnur vashatkaro... 

विश्वं विष्णुर वषट्कारो


so starts Vishnusahasranaamam 


Guruvayurappan is the whole universe Viswam Himself.. 
and not the granite idol we see consecrated in the sanctum .. which is only an icon. 


By growing beautiful flowers on earth which is a part of His self he adorns himself.
He is the fertile land where such beautiful flowers bloom.


Opinions can vary on this issue ..


Sankara once apologized to Lord shiva for having seen the divine manifestation restricted in a stone idol while He, the Lord is present in the whole universe, as the ashtamurthi... 


The famous prayer of Kalidasa in 
Ahijnaana Shakuntalam.. the opening invocation 


या सृष्टिः स्रष्टुराद्या वहति विधिहुतं या हविर् या च होत्री
ये द्वे कालं विधत्तः श्रुतिविषयगुणा या स्थिता व्याप्य विश्वं
यामाहुः सर्वबीजप्रकृतिरिति यया प्राणिनः प्राणवन्तः
प्रत्यक्षाभिः तनुभिरवतुवः ताभिरष्ताभिरीशः॥
महाकवेः कालिदासस्य अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तळात्॥
Yaa shrastuH shritiraadhyaa vahati vidhihutam yaahavir yaa cha hotri, 
ye dwe kaalam vidhattah shrutivishayagunaa yaa stitaa vyapya viswam, 
yaamaahu sarvabhiijaprakrutiriti yaya praaninah praanavanthaH 
pratyakshaabhiH tanubhiravatu vaH taabhirashtaabiriisah... 


who is the first among creations..water, 
who takes oblations properly made to gods..agni, 
which is the offering in yajna the havis, 
who is the person making oblation.. brahmana, 
who knows the past and future.. time, 
who is the medium of hearing and sustains the life of all beings..air, 
who pervades the whole universe, the teja in the shape of akasha, 
and 
who as the prakriti is the mother for all beings..the mother earth... 
Lord Ashtamurthi the 
Shiva who manifests in these eight forms may protect us. 


In purushsooktham they say 


तं यज्ञं बर्हिषि प्रौक्षन्
tam yjanam barhishi praukshan... 


यज्ञेन यज्ञं अयजन्त देवाः 
yajnena yajanamayajantha devaah.


तस्मात् यज्ञात् सर्वहुतः . 
tasmaad yajnaad sarvahutaH ... 


He is the oblation, He is the yajna process Himself and He conducts the yajna.


so we see the manifestation of Shiva the Krishna everywhere.. Nothing special can be achieved by adorning any symbol or worshipping any Icon.. 


I do not say this to hurt or challenge the sagunopasakaas, 
but it would appear that worship of symbols is only a stage in growth of a sadhaka.. 


when Krishna said Patram Pushpam Phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayachchati... 
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति 
He only meant that when we see the leaf, flower, fruit and water which we offer to Krishna 
we should praise the creator who is none other that that black fellow Himself
We are offering to Him only Him manifesting as His creation 
Krishna I love you...

Monday, August 22, 2011

: vishnu sahasranamam meanings... sankara baashyam


 You can read the book in the following links
 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2n1qyKu0eCceFJzalZHRGdZT3M/edit

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21645659/Vishnu-Sahasranamam-Meanings

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।श्रीकृष्णो रक्षतु।
|śrīkṛṣṇo rakṣatu|
Have a nice and happy day
with profound respect and warm regards
K V Ananthanarayanan
blog   http://kanfusion.blogspot.com/
त्यजन्तु बान्धवाः सर्वे निन्दन्तु गुरवो जनाःI
तदापि परमानन्दो गोविन्दो मम जीवनंII
let all my relatives abandon me, let the great people insult me, still I am in supreme bliss since my life  is GOVINDA alone.
Iकृष्णात् परं किमपि तत्वं अहं न जाने"I
लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु।
lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu|




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