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b) He Who has no one above Him as the Master.
anISAya namah.
a) SrI BhaTTar: He is called anISah since when it comes to His devotees, He
does not assert or display His rulership, and instead, is completely subservient
to them. We already saw several examples of this in our explanation of the
nAma 627 - vidheyAtmA.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan presents this idea more graphically by pointing out that
bhagavAn becomes dependent on the likes of us to bathe Him and feed Him in
His arcA form! PeriAzhvAr describes this act of His becoming dependent on
His devotees thus - AycciiyAgiya annaiyAl anRu veNNei vArttaiyuL
sIRRamuNDu azhukUtta appan (tiruvAi. 6. 2. 11). He just puts up a show of
weeping and crying to show how subservient He is to yaSodA at the very
thought that she may get angry at the remote suggestion that He may be
involved in any reported incident of butter being stolen.
b) SrI Samkara: He is called anISah because He has no one above Him as His
Master - na vidyate asya ISa iti anISah. He quotes from the Sruti - na tasya
ISe kaScana - nArAyaNa. Upa. 3. 2.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri gives the additional example - na tasya kaScit
patirasti loke na ceSilA - SveTASva. 6. 9.
The dharma cakram writer points out that the lesson to take from this nAma is
that one who is devoted to bhagavAnhas bhagavAn Himself under his control,
and so devotion will lead one to the state where there is no one who will be a
master of the bhakta. This is the greatness of devotion or bhakti.
nAma 633. zañtiSSwr> SASvata SASvata-sthirah
SASvata sthirah
He Who iseternally existent and steady.
SASvata-sthirAya namah.
SASvata means eternal, always, and sthirah means stable.
SrI BhaTTar: He assumes thevarious forms of the images (arcA forms) which
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