13/12/2022
Jai Shri Ram,
One of my favourite topics to
discuss or fret over is the dasha avatar of Shri Mahavishnu. Recently in the
last one month I read and heard a lot about the 1000 names of Vishnu through
Vishnu Sahasranamam. Two vaktas or speakers, Shri Dushyant S in English and
Shri Samavedam Shanmukha Sharma’s videos
in Telugu are very influential over that.
Now the thoughts of creation are something
the world frets over. While the western world thinks that the creation was not
there and it came up later, that means there is a creator and a creation and
the difference is between creation and creator. Like a builder of a house and
the house. The person who build it and then entered it. Unlike that, the Hindu
philosophy says: It’s like the cotton in the cloth. The creation and creator are
the same. The creation is not separate from creation. Just like the Pot and
earth (mud) in it, just like the cloth and fiber in it.
The Vishnu sahasranama was told by Bhishma
pitamah to Yudhisthira in the presence of Lord Srikrishna himself. There is a
lot of intelligentsia over this. Bhishma pitamah is a grand old man who knows
lot of things and an Acharya by himself. There is a point we need to
understand, Bhagvad Gita is told to Arjuna by Lord Srikrishna and Bhishmacharya
shares the Vishnu Sahasranamam, Both have the similar essence of each other but
then why they are told twice and why the vakta and shrota are different in each
of these?
In Bhagvad Gita the speaker is lord himself
and the listener is his friend and a bhakta Arjuna. Here the maturity levels
are high but in comparison to Yudhisthira who is clear that he has to fight as
it’s his dharma as a Kshatriya to fight for what is right. The emotional
quotient of Arjuna is weaker compared to Yudhistir, He can get emotional
quicker and get cleared off by a friend’s advice. While the higher order
thinking of Yudhisthir may not be capable to get influenced by a friend and
brother as much as it will be influenced by an elderly and knowledgeable person
like Bhishma charya.
Also being logical during one of the
question asked during the Yakshna Prashna, the yaksha had asked what is that
which is not understood but yet followed, Yudhushtira answers that it is the
Sanatana Dharma where Intelligent people differ in thoughts, no two things
agree and logic cannot solve it, hence we should follow what our ancestors have
been doing. Although the yaksha cleared the answer with full marks, Yudhistir
was not convinced by his own answer and he wanted to know it better and hence
he asks in the beginning of the Vishnu Sahasranaam, what and who is the only
one answer to which we can think (Japa), praise (Stotra – Stuti) and be out of
all janma sansar bandhan.
In answer Bhishma tells the Vishnu
Sahasranaam. I am pasting Dushyant’s English Video link for you to listen.
If there is a
fifth veda it is Mahabharata and in Mahabharata there are 5 ratnas or pancha
ratnas .. they are
Interaction between
Vidura and Dhritarashtra – Vidura Neeti
Interaction between Sanat kumara and Dhritarashtra –
Sanat Sujiyam
Interaction between yaksha and Yudhistira – Yakshna
Prashnam
Interaction between Arjuna and Krishna (Overheard by
Dhristarashtra) – Bhagvad Gita
Interaction between Yudhistir and Bhishma –
Vishnu Sahasranamam
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