mAaDhaVo.mADhUh....
mAaDhaVo.mADhUh.... Madhu + Ripu = Madhuripu. Madhu means honey and Ripu means enemy. Madhuripu means the enemy of honey. What is the liaison between honey and enemy? Here we have to understand this concept in a spiritual way. Who are the enemies of Lord Vishnu? > Asuras! Madhu is one of the several thousand names of Lord Vishnu; > MaDhusUudana (sloka # 8); > mAaDhaVo.mADhUh (sloka # 18) of Sri Vishnu Sahasranaama Stothram; the one who is the slayer of the demon MADHU; Lord Vishnu in His incarnation as Hayagreeva has killed the demons Madhu & Kaitabha to restore the lost Vedas stolen from Lord Brahma. We find a reference to this in Sri MadBhagavatham in 2nd and 7th Canto. Madhu-Kaitabha are personification of passion and ignorance and Lord Vishnu as Hayagreeva is the Supreme God of Knowledge and destroyer of ignorance. In Sri Vishnu Sahasranama stothram sloka # 88 we find Lord Vishnu being described as > Shatrujit – Shatrutapanah; that means H...