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"You are Water, Earth, Fire, Air, and Ether, the Sun and the Moon., Siva and
Brahma.
(You are antaryAmi of all of them; You became all of them; You entered into
them all)."
Since He is AtmA of all the AtmA-s, He has all of these as His body. Thus He
is not only One, but He is also Many.
SrI Samkara explains the nAma naikah - He Who is not one only, by attributing
His many forms to His mAyA - mAyayA bahu-rUpatvAt naikah. In the
nAmAvaLi, the advaita pATham is "naikasmai namah".
b) SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives a different interpretation - naikah -
dvitAm vindamAnah; mAta-pitR-bhAvanayA SrI-lakshmI-nArAyaNa
rUpeNavirAjamAnah | - He is not One but should be recognized as two - in the
form of our Father and Mother, in His Form as SrI lakshmI-nArAyaNa.
SrI cinmayAnanda observes that His being One (ekah) is to be realized at the
"knowledge" level, but His being Many is realized at the "Being" level. He is in
everything that exists, and without Him, nothing exists; so He is Many.
However it is He and He alone who is in everything making everything function,
and so He is One.
c) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha's explanation is that He is called naikah because
there is no identity in anything that is created by Him, and everything is
different - na eko yasmAt iti naikah. (na tasya pratimA asti - yajur. 32.3.). SrI
vAsishTha refers to this as the naikattva dharma of bhagavAn.
nAma 732. s> sah
a) He Who spreads knowledge.
b) He Who is the final authority on all knowledge.
c) He Who destroys all obstacles to His devotees.
d) He Who is easily accessible, to the point of being pointed out as "He" by the
youngsters of AyarpADi.
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