JYESHhTAH SRESHhTAH PRAJAaPATIH…
JYESHhTAH SRESHhTAH PRAJAaPATIH…
Praja + Pathi; Praja means people
and Pathi means the Lord; Prajapathi means Lord of the people.
Lord Vishnu is the supreme Brahma
who has created ChaturMukha BraHma the creator. That’s why Lord Vishnu is also
referred to as PrajaApathih.
Lord Vishnu is the primordial
Prajapathi (Srushtikartha) the one who has created Lord Brahma, the Universe
and its elements.
Pra + Ja + Pathi;
Pra means great, eminent;
Ja means birth;
Pathi means the Lord/Ruler.
Ja means birth;
Pathi means the Lord/Ruler.
As PadmanaAbha, Lord VaAsudeva
(Vishnu) is the Supreme Prajapathi who has given birth to Srushtikartha Brahma
and who is the Ruler/Adhyaksha of the Universe.
Prajapathi is one of the several
thousand names of Lord Vishnu that we come across in Sri Vishnu Sahasranaama
Stothram;
Jyeshta means elderly, most
ancient, the oldest, senior most, supreme, eldest of all beings, the first and
the foremost;
who else can be Jyeshta in the
universe? none other than Lord Vishnu.
> jyEshHtaH sResHhtaH
pRaJaApatiH!
He is JyEsHta the best (SreshtaH)
among the best;
> nārāyaṇāt
prajāpatayaḥ prajāyante (Narayana Upanishad)...
From Lord NAraYana emanate the
PraJapatis the Divine
Progenitors; Prajapathi means the one who procreates.
Progenitors; Prajapathi means the one who procreates.
In Sri MadBhagavatham we find a
list of Prajapathi's and their descendants.
Generally the term Prajapathi is
referred to Lord Brahma the Lord of Creation (Srushtikartha).
Hari Sarvottama - Vaayu
Jeevottama
Sri GuruRaajoVijayate
Sri GuruRaajoVijayate
In the context of Adhika Maasa PRAJAPATHI is one of the presiding Deities of AdHkaMasa whose Antharyaami is AGHAARDHANA naamaka ParamaAtma;
ReplyDeleteAgHa + AardHana;
DeleteAgha means means sin, evil, malefic, annoyance, suffering, grief etc.and
Aardhana means the one who destroys, annihilates, wipe out etc. the one who burns our sins;
> Who is AghaArdhana? Who else?
DeleteLord Vishnu the Supreme God who is AnaGha is AgHaArdhana the one who destroys the sins.
He is VENKATESWARA .....
Ve~n(m) means sins; Kata means to burn down;
Eesha/Eeshwara means the Master; Lord; Supreme; Ruler;
Venkateshwara the Supreme God whose abode is/and who is the Lord of VenkataAdri (Venkataachala) Hills;
the one that burns down the sins; that has power to destroy the sins. He is Paapanaashanah;
As Venkateswara, Lord Sriinivaasa (Vishnu) is AghaArdhana the one who burns (Ven + Kata) our sins.