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caturmUrtis caturbAhus caturvyUhas caturgatih |
caturAtmA caturbhAvas caturvedavidekapAt ||
nAma 771. ctumURitR> catur catur-mUrtih
catur mUrtih
He of Four Forms.
catur-mUrtaye namah.
The nAma means He of Four Forms.
[ PLEASE ADD PRANAVAM BEFORE EACH NAAMA ]
Different vyAkhyAna kartA-s have anubhavam of His four folded-ness in
different ways. SrI bhaTTar comments that the reference to “Four Forms”
immediately reminds one of the four vyUha forms (vAsudeva, sa’nkarshaNa,
pradyumna, and aniruddha). These four vyUha forms preceded the vibhava
incarnations such as rAma, kRshNa, etc. Even in His vibhava form as Lord
kRshNa, He had four forms, in the forms of balabhadra, vAsudeva, pradyumna,
and aniruddha (balabhadra is the elder brother of kRshNa, pradyumna is His
son, and aniruddha is His grandson). Similarly, in His incarnation as rAma, the
four brothers (rAma, lakshmaNa, bharata, and Satrughna) originated from the
same pAyasam that was given to daSaratha at the end of the putra kAmeshTi
yAgam.
SrI Sa’nkara refers to His Four Forms as virAT, sUtrAtman, avyAkRta, and
turIya (gross, subtle, uncompounded, and transcendent).
SrI rAdhAkRshNaSAstri provides the following explanation for the four
forms:
1. In the process of creation, the first tattva is called avyakta, the state
of mUla prkRti before it started evolving.
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