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Sriyoh nidhIyanta iti SrI-nidhih - He who is the resort of the entirety of
wealth, as He is all-powerful.
c) SrI cinmAyananda interprets the nAma as "He who is the nidhi for SrI",
and notes that He is All-Full and Perfect, all glories draw themselves from Him
alone. In this sense, SrI also draws her vitality from Him, and He is thus the
nidhi of SrI.
The dharma cakram writer explains the meaning behind the nAma as follows:
SrI refers to all that is good. As bhagavAn has declared - He takes
incarnations to protect the good and destroy the evil - paritrANAya
sAdhUnAm vinASAya ca dushkRtAm. This nAma indicates His protecting SrI -
the incarnation of all that good and virtuous. This nAma teaches us that just as
the good part of the food that is consumed is converted into blood etc. and
the bad part is discarded as waste, we should retain what is good around us
and discard what is not good. Meditation on this nAma of vishNu with this
understanding of the meaning of this nAma will give us this ability.
The nAma SrI-nidhih thus means:
- He has SrI as His treasure
- SrI has Him as her treasure
- He is the resort of all wealth
nAma 616. ïIivÉavn> SrI SrI-vibhAvanah
SrI vibhAvanah
a) He who owes His greatness to lakshmi.
a) He who bestows greatness on all according to their karma.
b) He who makes lakshmi's fame (vivhavam) known to everyone.
SrI-vibhAvanAya namah
SrI BhaTTar gives the reference to sage vAlmIki - aprameyam hi tat tejah
yasya sA janakAtmajA (AraNya. 37. 18) - "The tejas or splendor of SrI rAma,
who has sItA as His pirATTi, is beyond all measure". These are the words of
mArIca to rAvaNa. ANDAL dramatically describes the extent of trouble He
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