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    Re: Kṛṣṇa's names - a deeper look

    hariḥ oṁ
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    Namaste rcscwc,

    Quote Originally Posted by rcscwc View Post
    Try what I may, the posts are filled with boxes. Could be written in Martian.
    I do not know how you solve this issue... perhaps if you address it with satay the administrator, you folks can work through the problem.

    [font=Tahoma][size=3]the text is in Tahoma font , and the sanskrit symbols are just that.


    hope you are able to find the correction.

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    Last edited by yajvan; 26 September 2016 at 02:48 PM. Reason: spelling
    यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
    yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
    because you are identical with śiva

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    Re: Kṛṣṇa's names - a deeper look

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    Namasté


    O viśveśvara I see your Universal Form (viśva-rupa); I see no beginning, nor middle or end." … Bhāgavad gītā 11.16

    viśveśvara विश्वेश्वर is a noun of śiva; yet we need to dis-assemble this word to viśve+śva+ra to appreciate this epithet of Kṛṣṇa

    When we use viśve it is equal to 'with' or 'all'; an application would be used with devā-s as in viśve-deva -'all the gods collectively' .
    From viśve we get to viśva विश्व - whole , entire , all-pervading or all-containing , omnipresent; it's a noun for the universe.

    And what of this śvara ? sva+ra . śva =svan and this is rooted in śvi 'to swell much' . This compliments viśva, whole or entire as 'śvi' swells to this wholeness, to the all-pervading, to the universe. And this 'ra' has a few definitions that nicely apply.

    ra is brightness , splendour , fire, heat as it is used in ravi ( the sun); it is also rooted in 'rā' meaing acquiring, possessing.
    So this viśveśvara is rich in meaning; that which is bright and splndorious (ra) that acquires (rā) or swells (śvi) to the fullness of the all-pervading, all-containing universe (viśva). This is the greatness of viśveśvara.

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    यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
    yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
    because you are identical with śiva

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    Re: Kṛṣṇa's names - a deeper look

    Namaste Yajvan ji,

    Thanks a ton for these explanations.

    I would like to give an input about the word KeSava

    In Vishnu Sahasranama, it occurs as 23rd word. Adi Shankara interprets the word keSava in 3 different ways. Similar to what you have explained. However there is some difference in the meaning deduced from Grammetially.

    23 केशव keSava

    Shankara BhASya by Gita Press

    Adi Shankara in his BhASya explains the meaning of the word KeSava in three different ways. The second definition is:

    KeSava is made up of 4 words

    'ka', 'a', 'isa', 'va'

    ka = Brahma
    a = Vishnu
    isa = Mahadev / Shiva / Shankara / Mahesha / Rudra
    va = That which one has in one's possession, what is under one's sway. i.e. One who contains in himself - Lord of Creation, Preservation and Dissolution is keSava.

    Paramacharya upon explaining this statement says: He must be ParamAtmAn

    Paramacharya also says that in Veda-s and PurANa-s Brahma and Vishnu are referred to as such (ka & a) at many places.

    Source:
    Page: 192, Part 6, The Guru Tradition, Kanchi Paramacharya
    Vishnu Sahasranama Shankara BhASya, Hindi Translation, Gita Press, Page 75-76

    Other two explanations of the word KeSava are:

    The one whose keSa (hair) is called as KeSava
    Then follows above explanation (Ref. Panini Sutra 5.2.109)
    The killer or slayer of demon KeSIkA is called as KeSava. Further acharya cites Ref of Vishnu PurANa 5.16.23


    We can connect the word KeSava with a famous SubhAshita-s which forms the essence of veda-s

    "Ruchinam vaichitryad rijukutil nana path jusham;
    nrinam ekogamyastvamasi pyasamarnavmiti"

    "Due to the differences in individual dispositions, people follow different paths, but you are the only destination of all of them, just as the sea is the destination of all the waters"

    Akashat patitam toyam sagaram prati gacchati,
    sarva deva namaskaram Keshavam prati gacchati"

    "All the water fallen from the sky goes to the sea,
    salutations to all the gods reaches to the KeSava"

    Hari OM
    Only God Is Truth, Everything Else Is Illusion - Ramakrishna
    Total Surrender of Ego to SELF is Real Bhakti - Ramana Maharshi

    Silence is the study of the scruptures. Meditation is the continuous thinking of Brahman which is to be meditated upon. The complete negation of both by knowledge is the vision of truth – sadAcAra-14 of Adi SankarAcArya

    namah SivAya vishnurUpAya viShNave SivarUpiNe, MBh, vanaparva, 3.39.76

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