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power, happiness, etc. Alternatively, he gives the interpretation that the nAma
refers to "One Who has taken different incarnations", exhibiting in all of them
the glories of the Supreme.
c) SrI Samkara gives the meaning bhAsamAnatvam (Effulgence) to the term
'bhUti", and "true existence" to the term sat, and thus gives the
interpretation that this nAma of bhagavAn signifies that He alone truly exists,
and has the effulgence which is revealed without any other external object.
Without Him nothing else exists, and without His Effulgence, nothing else is
revealed. One translator has translated SrI Samkara's original vyAkhyAnam as
follows: "As the supreme Self is ever-existing as Consciousness and shining, He
is unsublated being".
d) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha uses the root bhU - sattAyAm - to be, to live, for
the term bhUti, and thus gives the interpretation suggestive of "His truly
existing in different forms" (sati = SASvatI, bhUtih = bhavanam = vividha
bhAvena pariNAmah, sad-bhUtih). He gives as an illustration the fact that the
tree exists in the seed, and the seed exists in the tree, and both are real and
true. Time does not destroy this relationship, and this relationship is eternal.
This same relationship extends to everything in the universe. Thus, bhagavAn
is both the nimitta kAraNam and the upAdAna kAraNam (tathaiva idam brahma
jaDa cetana rUpasya asya viSvasya nimittam kAraNam na tu upAdAna
kAraNam, bIjAnAm vapte ca).
nAma 708. sTpray[> (or) sTpray[m! sat sat-parAyaNam
sat parAyaNam
a) The Support for the good.
b) The supreme Goal for the good.
c) He Who has the good people as His support.
sat-parAyaNAya namah.
SrI BhaTTar gives two alternate versions for this nAma - sat-parAyaNam or
sat-parAyaNah. The first version is in neuter gender, and the second one is in
masculine gender. SrI BhaTTar's interpretation corresponds to the meaning
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