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h) He is acyuta, Who neither slips from His vow, nor lets His devotees slip
away from their goal. These are just a few instances that bring out His visamattvam,
and so He is known as vishamah.
nAma 749. zUNy> SUnyah
a) He Who is devoid of defects when He takes births as one of us.
b) He Who is without any attributes (advaita interpretation)
c) He Who goes everywhere, or is present everywhere.
d) He Who cleans out everything at the time of pralaya.
e) He Who is not accessible when we seek Him through our senses.
SUnyAya namah.
The word SUnyam means empty, void, etc. The nAma is interpreted by
different vyAkhyAna kartA-s in terms of His being devoid of defects, His
destroying everything completely at the time of pralaya, His ridding His
enemies completely without trace, etc.
a) SrI bhaTTar's interpretation is that He has this nAma because He was
without any trace of any type of defect even though He took human
incarnations.
SrI v.v. rAmAnujan refers us to nammAzhvAr's tiruvAimozhi pASuram 3.10.6:
tuyar il SuDAroLi tannuDaic cOdi ninRa vaNNam niRkavE
tuyarin maliyum maniSar piRaviyil tOnRik kaN kANa vandu
tuyara'ngaL Seidu tan deiva nilai ulagil puga uykkum ammAn
tuyaram il SIrk kaNNan mAyan pugazh tuRRa yAn Or tunbam ilanE.
BhagavAn is without any trace of defect, and this is well accepted. But He
takes birth among the grief-stricken human beings. Even so, He continues to
have all His parattvam intact in His incarnations, and so He is without any
defect. He takes these births so that He is accessible to the people. He
continues to torture His enemies through His weapons etc., and He continues
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