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the interpretation that this nAma indicates that bhagavAn binds the creatures
that have the ability to move around such that they function as a unit with all
their parts intact. We are given the ability to walk and to run fast, but we do
not ever worry about our legs falling apart as we run. We watch a dancer
dance, and in the process our eyes move all around, but there is never a
thought in us that the eyes will fall out as they move around constantly. This
general rule, trivial as it may seem, is an important part of the whole world
functioning - when the planets keep moving around, we do not worry about
their falling apart, colliding with each other, etc. All this is because of
bhagavAn- the SUra-sena, who keeps everything bound in a way that
everything functions as a unit and all things co-exist with each other. SrI
vAsishTha-s summary of this interpretation is - evameva sakalam carAcara
dRSyam adRSyam ca cintayam acintayam ca jagat tasya vishNoh SUra-senatva
lakshaNam guNam prakASayan SUra-sena abhidhAnam labhate.
The learned people know and understand that bhagavAn has given us the
freedom to move around, and at the same time He is the One who keeps us all
together as one unit, and has established the rules for all of us to follow. The
mahA-purusha-s understand this simple and universal secret that permeates in
everything all around, and praise this SUra-sena and thereby all their sins are
removed.
The dharma cakram writer illustrates the significance of this nAma in terms of
the mahA bhArata war. In that war, bhagavAn used the pANDava army
consisting of the good people such as arjuna, and defeated the wicked kauravas.
When duryodhana enlisted good people such as bhIshma and droNa on his
side, and when arjuna hesitated to kill them for the sake of dharma, bhagavAn
imparted true knowledge to him and made him fight. It was thus with
bhagavAn's help that arjuna could win the war.
We have to constantly fight the Asuric tendencies in us in order to elevate
ourselves. For this, we need His help. It is only by removing our association
with the materialistic desires, and by strengthening our connection with
bhagavAn, that we can succeed in overcoming the Asuric tendencies in us. This
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