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indra, men like arjuna, and monkeys such as sugrIva and hanuman.
SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives another dimension of this guNa of bhagavAn –
He is the one from whom all that moves in any form has originated, and thus
He is the Lord of all.
SrI baladeva vidyAbhUshaN gives the interpretation that He has this nAma
because He is the Lord or Chief of the SUra klan, through acts such as the
destruction of kamsa.
nAma 652. iÇlaekaTma tri tri-lokAtmA
tri lokAtmA
a) He who ever moves about in the three worlds.
b) He Who makes the three worlds move about.
c) He Who is the AtmA for everything in all the three worlds.
tri-lokAtmane namah.
a) SrI BhaTTar gives his interpretation based on the derivation of the word
"AtmA" from the root ata - to be always moving about (ata sAtatyagamane) -
trIn lokAn atati satatam gacchati.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan gives reference to tiruvAimozhi, where nammAzhvAr
beautifully expresses this concept -
"viN mIdiruppAi! malai mEl niRpAi! KaDal SerppAi!
maN mIduzhalvAi! ivaRRuL e'ngum maRainduRaivAi!
eN mIdiyanRa puRavaNDattAi!. ."
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tiruvAimozhi (6. 9. 5).
He keeps moving about in all the three worlds in order to be easily accessible
to everyone.
b) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha extends this anubhavam to point out that not only
does He move about in the three worlds, but He is the One who makes
everything move about in all the three worlds - avan anRi Or aNuvum aSaiyAdu.
So He is tri-lokAtmA in this sense as well.
c) SrI Sankara gives the interpretation that He is the AtmA of everything in