Vishnu Sahasra Nama 14 – Krishna brings completeness to our existence and our longing for happiness

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thank you Purushaha now the word Purushaha in conversational language like Hindi which are drawn from Sanskrit it means male or in general person and often the word also has a connotation of enjoyer now what does it mean when it is applied to the supreme lord there can be many meanings one is Puraya iti Purushaha that one who completes that is Purusha so now what does he complete in the prakriti is incomplete without Purusha it is the union of the prakriti with Purusha that brings out the potency of the prakriti so we as souls are prakriti and Krishna is Purusha so we cannot be happy separate from Krishna we are complete we are complete but our completeness is dependent completeness we are complete when we are in relationship with Krishna and we are dependent on that relationship for our completeness so without Krishna we always stay incomplete no matter how many other things we strive for and even we achieve in the misdirected quest for completeness and by contemplating that yes by chanting I am filling the hole in my heart with the complete hole that way we can get the motivation to continue on Purusha also means Pura Asita Purusha that lord who has been living eternally so he is the primary being Povindam Adipurusham Tamaham Bhaja Brahma and Samhita prays that I worship that lord whose existence is eternal who is the original primeval person Aham Adirhitevanam Harshinam Jyotishah so Krishna says that Devatas and even the Purushas cannot know him because he comes before them so he has been existing before us we are like his children and in that sense he being far more knowledgeable, far more experienced, far more mature than us, knows what is best for us so he has told us in scripture that we should remember him then by remembering him we will become truly happy and at the very least we should be open to the experiment, if we try to fix the mind on Krishna in appropriate way, we will find that it will give us far greater fulfillment than any other thing in existence that will be the city, the confirmatory test of Krishna’s wisdom that he is the original, the wisest person then Purushetha Itthikusha he exists in the body, that person whose name we are chanting he is not far away he is right inside the heart Sarvasya Chavaham Bhurisannishtho so just as we are calling out, we are not just uttering the name of some person, sometimes we are we call on a phone and then there is nobody on the other phone or we are wondering, are you hearing wondering whether the person is hearing us or not, but Krishna is right next to us Jaksunasana Vishati he never blinks his eyes, he is always watching us always hearing us, eagerly waiting for us to turn towards him so remembering that the lord whom we are calling to is so close to us and we can have an intimate conversation with him by turning towards him in remembrance and devotion, that can inspire us to take shelter of him and then Purusha also means that lord who blesses his devotees with abundant, profuse happiness Krishna is an unlimited reservoir of happiness and that reservoir never gets exhausted therefore if we just turn towards him and try to remember him then he will help us to be able to return to him to be able to return not just in a sense of going back to the spiritual world, but return in terms of redirection of our heart towards him in terms of our attraction towards him so Krishna will give us satisfaction and increase our attraction when we express our devotion and he has an unending and inexhaustible stockpile of happiness and he will provide it such is the lord Purusha whom we can take shelter of through the holy name through the loving remembrance through