Wordings
Shri Vallava. Iti, Barada, Iti, Dayapara, Iti, Bhaktapriya, Iti, Bhava, Lunthana, Kobida, Iti, Natha, Iti, Nagasayam Iti, Jaggannibash, Iti, Alprinam, Pratidinam, Kuru, dham, Mukunda.
Synonyms
Shri Vallava—Very dear to Laxmi (Consort of Godhead).; Natha—The Lord.; Iti—Thus.; Nagasayana—One who sleeps on the bed of serpent.; Barada—Endower of benediction.; Jaggannibash—Resort of cosmos.; Dayapara—Causeless merciful.; Alapinam—Constantly recitor.; Bhaktapriya—Very dear to the devotees.; Pratidinam—Everyday.; Bhava—Repeatation of birth & death.; Kuru—Please do it.; Lunthana—Plundering.; Mam—Unto Me.; Kobida—Expert.; Mukunda—Oh Mukunda my Lord.
Translation
Oh Mukunda My lord! Please do it unto me so that I can become a constantly recitor of addressing you thus as by the name of very dear to Luxmi, endower of benediction, causeless merciful, very dear to the devotees, expert in plundering the status quo of repeated birth and death, the real Lord Who lies down on the bed of serpent and the resort of the cosmos etc.
Purport
A devotee of Godhead is he who glorifies the Personality of Godhead dictated by transcendental ecstasy. This ecstasy is a by product of profound love for the Supreme which is attained by the process of glorification. In this age of quarrel and fight only such glorificatory chanting process as is recommended here by the King Kulashekhara is the proper way of attaining perfection. Diseased persons infected with material attachment and suffering from the pangs of repeated birth and death cannot
realise the effect of such recitation of the glories of the Lord as much as a person, suffering from the disease of Jaundice, can not relish the taste of sugar-candy. Patient suffering from Jaundice tastes sugar-candy as bitter as anything although sugar-candy by its very nature is as sweet as anything. Similarly the transcendental Name, Fame, attributes, pastimes, entourage etc of the Personality of Godhead is sweet to those only who are recovered from the infection of material sufferings in respect of the gross body & subtle mind, in respect of dealings with other living being and in respect of our cosmic relations. On the other hand sugar-candy is the only medicine of curing Jaundice. By regular doses of sugar candy treatment one can gradually get relieved from the affection of Jaundice and when the patient is perfectly cured—the same sugar-candy becomes as sweet as it is naturally.
Similarly the mundane people in general, so called philosophers and religionists who are constantly suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence—can get freed from all such trobles simply by chanting and glorifying the holy name, fame etc of the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is all spirit Absolute Truth & therefore His Name, Fame etc are non-different from Him. All of them are identical. The holy Name of the Lord is the Lord Himself and it is a question of realisation only. By chanting the holy names of the Lord which are innumerable, one can actually associate himself with the Lord personally and such constant personal touch
with the all-spirit Lord, one can get himself spiritually self-realised. And this process of self-realisation is very much suitable for the fallen souls of this age when life is short, people are slow in understanding the importance of spiritual realisation, prone to be mislead by false spiritual masters or association unfortunate in every respect and contionoly disturbed by manyfold problems of material infections.
The King Kulashekhara, who is an ideal pure devotee of the Lord, shows us the way of offering prayer to the Lord by his own realisation. As he is a Mahajan or the authority in the line of devotional activities, it is our prime duty that we shall follow his foot prints in order to achieve to the highest rank of devotional platform.
The first address of the Lord is said thus as the very dear Lord of Luxmi who is the consort of the Lord. The Lord is the spiritual Personality of Godhead and His consort is the manifestation of His internal potency. By the expansion of His internal potency the Lord enjoys His spiritual parapharnalia. The Lord is not therefore imperson or voidness in the highest spiritual realisation as it is conceived by different empiric philosophers. He is nothing of this material world but He is not simply a negation of material variegatedness but He is positively the Supreme enjoyer of spiritual variegatedness of which Luxmi or the internal potency is the fountain-head.
The Lord is addressed as 'Barada' because it is He only who can deliver the substance. By detaching ourselves from His association we are always in the midst of want & scarcity but as soon as we get into touch with Him, the gradual process of endowment of all bliss
begins. The first instalment of such bliss is the clarance of the lair of dust accumulated in our heart by material association of lacs & crores of years. As soon as the dust is brushed aside the clear mirror of heart reflects the presence of the Lord and as soon as we can see Him we are automatically freed from all kinds of aspirations and frustrations. At that time of liberated state everything is blissful in relation with the Lord and we have nothing to lament or nothing to desire. Following this endowment, full spiritual bliss comes upon us when full knowledge, full life and full satisfaction covering the whole existence are all ushered in.
The Lord is addressed as 'Dayapara' i.e. there is nobody else, who can become a causeless merciful friend of us, except the Lord. He is called the friend of the needy. Unfortunately we seek our friends in the mundane world at times of our need without knowing how a needy man can help another needy fellow. No mundane man thinks himself full in every respect. Even the greatest of all richmen—thinks himself needy because he is devoid of the relation of the Lord. Everything is zero without the Lord. The Lord is the positive digit with which if the zeros added the number becomes multiplied by ten. No zeroman can become a happy man without the association of the Supreme One. The Supreme One always wants to make our zero efforts valuable by His association as much as the beloved father wants his unhappy son to be in the prosperous position by all means. A rebelled soul however, stubornly refuses the cooperation of the loving father & suffers thereby all sorts of miseries. The Lord therefore
not only sends His bonafide representatives in all parts of the material creations but sometimes He comes Himself to reclaim His fallen sons. 8/1/58 He also exhibits the actual life in the transcendental world and the different relations with the Lord in servitorship, friendship, parenthood as well as consorthood of life. All these different relations in the material world are but perverted reflections of such original order. In the mundane world we are engaged with the shadows only whereas in the spiritual world the reality exists. The Lord is so merciful that He is always mindful of our difficulties in the mundane world and He is more anxious to get us back to home than we are actually anxious to go back to Godhead. He is by nature merciful upon us even in our rebelled attitude. Even in rebellious condition we get all supplies of foodstuff from Him, the air, light, warmth, coolness and whatnot from Him. We simply mismanage the paternal property so needed for our life because we are detached from Him. The planning leaders of men are misleaders because they have no plan to revive our lost relation with the Lord. And yet His bonafide devotees do try their utmost to remind the fallen souls for going back to home or going back to Godhead. Such stainless servants of Godhead, who try to broadcast the message of our transcendental relation with Him, are very dear to Him. Such men who works so compassionately do get special favours of the Lord so much so that they can go back to Godhead even in this very span of life without being forced to take another birth.
The Lord is therefore specifically addressed as Bhakta-priya or very affectionate to His devotee.
The sublime and transcendental relation of a devotee with the Lord in terms of affectionate loving service of the Lord is described in the Bhagwat Geeta very nicely. The Lord has definitely declared there that He is undoubtedly equally kind to all living being because all of them are His parts & parcels spiritual sons—but out of them, those who are especially attached to Him by love & affection,—are particularly dear to Him because to them (the devotees) nothing is dearer than the Lord. Lord Jesus Criest agreed to be crucified most mercilessly because He was unable to give up the preaching work on behalf of God. He was never prepared to make any compromise on the issue of disbelieving God. Such a son of God and personality cannot be anything but dear to the Lord. Thakur Haridas was advised to give up the chanting of the holy name of God but He refused to do so at the risk of being flogged in the open street of 22 markets! Prahlad Maharaj agreed to disagree with the views of His atheist father Hiranyakashipu the great and voluntarily accepted different types of cruelties committed upon Him by His so called mundane father. These are some of the grand examples of the renounced devotees of the world and we should simply understand how much such devotees are dear to the Lord. The Lord has therefore emphatically declared that nobody can perish His devotees in all circumstances.
When Amburish Maharaj was deliberately put in to difficulty by the great mystic Durbasha, who attempted in the extinction of life of the King, was suitably punished by the Lord even though Durbasha was a powerful yogi who could approach all the gods including the Lord Himself even in his material body.
A devotee is never anxious to see the Lord as much as he is anxious to render service to Him. But the Lord Himself does appear before the devotee as He is more anxious to see His devotee as much as an affectionate father is more anxious to his son than the son is anxious to see his father. There is no disparity in such difference of quantity in affection. It is there in the original set up and the samething is reflected here in the mind of the mundane parents not only in human society but also in the animal kingdom. The paternal affection is exhibited even in the midst of lower animals because originally the affection in its fullness exist in God, the original father of all living beings of all denominations. When an animal is killed by a man, the affectionate father God is perturbed & pained at heart, and the slaughterer of the animal is suitably punished in the hands of material energy as much as a murderer is punished by the lawmaker King through police actions. By the mercy of the Lord a devotee develops all good qualities of God, because the devotee can never remain in the darkness of knowledge. A father is always anxious to impart knowledge and experience to his son and it depends on the choice of the son whether he does or does not accept such instruction. A submissive devotee becomes automatically enlightened of all intricate knowledge because the Lord from within dissipates ignorance of a devotee by the light of self illumined lamp burned by the Lord. If the Lord instructs Himself to His devotee how a devotee can remain a foolish person like a mundane wrangler.
The Father is naturally inclined to do good to his son and when the father chastises his son that chastisement is also mixed up with affection. All living entities who have lost the paradise on account of disobedience, are put into the hands of material energy for undergoing a prison life of threefold miseries. But yet the Supreme Father does not forget His rebelled sons. He creates for them the scriptures like Vedas and Puranas in order to revive the lost relation and awaken divine consciousness. Intelligent persons take advantage of the knowledge contained in these scriptures and attain the highest perfection of life. And only for the devotees, He descends personally to give them relief and save them from the insane acts. It is foolish to limit the unlimited potency of Godhead to the status of a living being and say obstinately that the Supreme Lord cannot descend! No He descends as He is for the sake of His devotees only without any infection of material qualities. He descends to mitigate the material pangs of His devotee.
As soon as a devotee agrees to surrender unto Him the Lord takes complete charge of such devotee and being satisfied with the activities of such devotee, He gives him instructions from within so that a pure devotee may advance progressively on the path of back to Godhead. He is expert in guiding such pure devotee. A pure devotee is not at all anxious for material superiority. A pure devotee does not wish to possess material wealth neither does he wants to become the leader of a great following. He does not either desire to have good & beautiful wife because he knows by the mercy of the Lord about the insignificance of such material happiness. What he desires at heart very sincerely is to continue the loving service of the Lord even there is a chance of repeatation of birth. But when
a neophyte devotee deviates from the path of devotion and simultaneously wants to enjoy sense-gratification then the all-merciful Lord very tactfully makes the bewildered devotee correct by exhibiting the real picture of this material world.
In the material world, the so called love 21/9 [another date? & initials?] and affection are covered by an illusory curtain of mercinary relation. The so called wife or husband, the so called parents & children or the so called master & servant are all concerned with reciprocal money making business. As soon as the shrouding cover is removed the dead body of material love & affection is at once manifest to the naked eye. The Lord therefore, as an expert dealer, breaks the capitalistic ice of a devotee and by such action of the Lord the devotee finds himself alone in the midst of so called relatives. And in a helpless condition only he can experience his awkward position of his so called relations with so called wife & children. When a man is finished by financial rupture no body cares to love him even the wife or children. Such seemingly poverty stricken devotee, more perfectly fixes up his faith in the Lord & the Lord then delivers him from the fate of frustration.
The whole cosmic creation is an expert arrangement of dilution to the false enjoyer the living being. The living being is constitutionly a servant of the Lord. But in transcendental relation, the servant of the Lord are also identical. In that relation the Lord serves the servant and the typical example is Shri Krishna's becoming the charioteer of Arjuna, His eternal servant. The illusioned mundaner cannot understand this transcendental identy and therefore some of them wants either to lord it over the material nature or others cynically want to merge into the Absolute. Forgetful of his constitutional position, the living being wants to become either a lord or a mendicant but such illusions are arrangement of Maya. The false
setup of life either as a lord or as a mendicant is met with frustration until the living being comes to his senses. That is an expert arrangement of putting a fulstop of repeated birth & death. The sensible man understands this fact and moulds his life in that direction.
The Lord is therefore addressed as Natha or the real Lord. Perfection of life is attained only by realising the real Lord. The whole material atmosphere is surcharged with unreal lordship of the living being. The false lordship of the living being is so fastlely changing and yet the illusioned being struggles for overlordship. Nobody wants to serve Every one wants to be the Lord although such lordship is conditional & temporary. A hard working man thinks himself to be the lord of his family and estate but actually he is a servant of desire and employee of anger. Such service of the senses is neither pensionable nor terminable. The master like desire and anger are never to be satisfied. The more one serves them the more the masters exact services from the servant and as such the false overlordship till the day of annihilation. As a result of such false overlordship the living being is pushed into degraded life and such foolish being fails to realise the Lord as the Lord of the universe, friend of all entities and beneficiary of all assets. One who knows the real Lord is called a Brahmin but who fails to know Him is called a Kripana or the miser number one.
The Lord of the creative energy is called Ananthasayanam. The material energy is impregnated by the glance of this feature of Lord and then she is able to give birth to
all sorts of organic and inorganic matters. This Anathasayanam sleeps on the bed of Shesha Naga whose form is like a serpent but He is identical with the Lord. The Shesa Naga sustains by His spiritual energy all the globes and planets upon His invisible hood popularly known as Samkarsana or that which keeps balance by magnetic law. In the scientific world such attractive feature of the Lord is called the law gravitation. This law of gravitation is one of the energy of the Lord which keeps all the planets & satelites floating in the air. This function of the Lord has celebrated His Name as the Supreme resort of the universes. All the universes are born along with the breathing of the Lord lying in the SheshaNaga and all of them are annihilated along with the intaking air. The Lord is therefore Jaggannibasha—cosmic sustainer
There are hundreds and thousands of other names of Lord Vishnu and each one of them are as powerful as the Lord is Himself. Every one can chant constantly any one of such names of the Lord and thereby make a constant association with Him. There is no hard and fast rules for chanting such names. At any time and at any stage of life one can freely chant the names. But unfortunate as we are, we are misled even to utter this simple thing. That is the way of misleading energy. One can avoid her ways simply by adherance to the lotus feet of the Lord. The King Kulashekhara prays for this facility from Mukunda the (?—)