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clean, and is occupied by Him, that meaningful and proper stuti comes out
through our words. It is then that the greatness of bhagavAn takes shape in
the form of words and comes out as stuti. Thus, it is He who causes the stuti
to occur, and hence He is called stutih.
nAma 688. Staeta stotA
a) He Who praises those who extol Him.
b) He Who is also the form of the Eulogizer of bhagavAn.
stotre namah.
SrI BhaTTar's vyAkhyAnam is "sva-stotAram stotum Seelam asya iti stotA" -
He Whose nature it is to praise those who praise Him is stotA. He quotes from
vishNu dharma in support:
"yam stuvan stavyatAmeti vandamAnaSca vandyatAm" (75. 55) - "He Who
praises bhagavAn is praised by bhagavAn Himself, and he who adores bhagavAn
becomes an object of adoration for Him".
SrI BhaTTar gives the example of bhagavAn's kailAsa yAtra in His kRshNa
incarnation. The incident referred to is Lord kRshNa's praise of Siva in the
form of a hymn during the kailAsa yAtra. Siva constantly meditates on
bhagavAn through the tAraka mantra, and so He becomes an object of stuti by
bhagavAn, as He says in hari vamSa - "One who praises Me becomes
praiseworthy".
SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives the same interpretation as SrI BhaTTar -
stauti sva-janAn iti stotA.
SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshan gives the reason for bhagavAn praising His
devotee - He wants to bring out the greatness of such a devotee. He quotes
from the gItA - j~nAnI tvAtmaiva me matam (7. 18). Slokam 7. 17 of the
gItA also conveys this idea:
teshAm j~nAni nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir viSishyate; |
priyo hi j~nAnino'tyartham aham sa ca mama priyah ||
where Lord kRshNa declares that the devotee who has exclusive devotion to
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