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) SrI Sa'nkara's anubhavam is: na svarUpAt na sAmarthyAt na ca
j~nAnAdikAt guNAt calanam vidyate asya iti a-calah- He is Immutable, or acalah,
because He undergoes no change in His nature, power, wisdom or any
other attributes.
The reader is again referred to the article that had been posted earlier,
comparing the approaches of SrI Sa'nkara and SrI BhaTTarto the vyAkhyAna
of SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam. The difference we see in the interpretation of
the current nAma is another illustration of this difference.
c) One of the interpretations that SrI cinmayAnanda gives is that because
bhagavAn is everywhere (All-pervading), and there is no place that He is not,
therefore He is a-calah. He gives the gItA Slokam 2.24 as support:
ac-chedyo'yam a-dAhyo'yam a-kledyo'Soshya eva ca |
nityah sarva-gatah sthANuh a-calo'yam sanAtanah ||
"It cannot be cleft; It cannot be burnt; It cannot be wetted and It cannot be
dried;
It is eternal, all-pervading, stable, immovable, and primeval".
SrI satyadevo vAsishTha observes that bhagavAn Who is a-calah, has also
inculcated in all His creations, the principle of a-calattvam in some form. Thus,
for instance, the tree or plant that comes out of a given seed is only of the
same type as the seed, and not of a different type. This dharma is not violated
ever. When a fire shoots out, it is always directed in an upward direction, and
not in a downward direction. Thus, even those that are moving and active, are
bound by His principle of a-calattvam.
The dharma cakram writer gives a real-world analogy to illustrate the
importance of this nAma. A small wind is able to move and shake small plants; a
bigger cyclone is able to uproot even big trees; however, a mountain is not
moved by any of these. Similarly, people who are involved and entangled in
worldly joys and sorrows are shaken up and tossed around emotionally; even
arjuna got totally confused and disheartened when he entered the battlefield.
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