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nAma 716. Anl> an an-alah an alah
a) He Who is never satisfied that He has done enough for His devotees.
b) He Who cannot tolerate the offense committed to His devotees.
c) He Who receives the prANa Sakti as His own and functions in the form of
the jIvAtmA (SrI Samkara).
d) He Who is beyond smell etc.
e) He Who is unlimited (in His Glories) (alam - paryApti - end).
f) He Who is in the form of Fire.
g) One Who has no end (alam - paryApti - end)
h) One Who has no opposition (alam - opposition)
i) He who rejuvenates His devotees who intensely long for Him (an - prANane ).
analAya namah.
This nAma occurred as nAma 294 in Slokam 32 earlier.
The reader is referred to this earlier write-up as well.
The nAma can be looked at as an-alah, a-nalah, or ana-lah.
The different interpretations are derived based on the different ways of
looking at the word.
a) For the occurrence of this nAma in Slokam 32, SrI BhaTTar uses the
meaning al - paryApti - to be satisfied, and gives the interpretation to the
nAma an-alah as "He Who is not satisfied". In spite of all that He does for His
devotees, He feels that He has done nothing to help His devotee - "na ki'ncit
kRtam eshAm mayA iti avitRptah". SrI BhaTTar quotes the incident from
mahA bhArata, where Lord kRshNa expresses His feeling of being permanently
in debt to draupadi who cried out for His help.
SrI v.v. rAmAnujan describes that even though He protected her when she
cried out for help, and even though in addition He helped the pANDava-s by
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