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hair,
golden altogether to the very tip of His nails".
SrI cinmayAnanda explains the significance of this Sruti vAkhya: Upon
witnessing the Self-Effulgent (Golden) Being, the seer's realization is
completely transformed, and "then, the wise one, shaking off all deeds of
merits and demerits, becomes stainless, and attains the supreme State of
Equipois".
PirATTi is also described along the same lines in the veda-s: "hiraNyavarNAm
hariNIm..." (SrI sUktam). SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj gives additional
support from SrImad rAmAyaNam, where sItA pirATTi describes rAma as
"One Who has golden hue":
kaccin-na tad-hema samAna varNam..."
nAma 744. hema¼a> hemA'ngah
He of golden-hued limbs.
hemA'ngAya namah.
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(sundara. 36.28).
SuvarNa and hema are equivalent words that refer to gold. The word hema is
derived from the root hi - gatau, vRddhau ca - to go, to promote. SrI kRshNa
datta bhAradvAj gives the following derivation for the nAma :
hinvanti vardhayanti SobhAm iti hemAni |
taDRSAni a'ngAni yasya iti hemA'ngah | -
He Who has limbs that promote the beauty of His tirumeni,
or He Who has limbs that resemble gold in promoting His beauty.
SrI bhaTTar interprets the nAma as referring to the limbs of His body which
are eternal, celestial, and composed of suddha-sattva material. nityam, divyam,
sattva mayam a'ngam asya iti hemA'ngah. This nAma is a logical extension of
the previous one - Since He has a body which is golden-hued, His a'nga-s