Vishnu Sahasra Nama Names 10-11 – The holy name links us to the Supersoul’s purity and guidance
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In the Vishnu Saraswarna, the glories of the Lord are being described in terms of His purity. He is supremely pure. He is uncontaminated by the effects of karma.
He is untainted by any of the unorthos. He has no selfishness. He is supremely pure, and He is supremely purified.
And because Krishna is non-different from the Holy Name, so, the Holy Name also has this supremely pure and purifying potency. Now, we know that Krishna, as far as His body and His soul are non-different. Then why is it that Krishna is being referred to as a pure soul over here? That’s because the word soul also refers to the essence of one’s being.
You put your heart and soul in service. So, it’s not that we are literally putting the soul in it, but we are putting our essence. So, the essence of Krishna is purity.
He is pure. There is nothing selfish, nothing contaminating, nothing impure within Him. Paramatmacha, so, He is the supreme soul.
Now, so, the Paramatma refers not only to the soul who is Param, transcendental or supreme, but we know that that transcendental soul is the indwelling super-soul. And that super-soul is the guide for all of us. So, Krishna says in 18.61 in the Bhagavad Gita, Ishwara sarva-bhutanam So, that Ishwara, that Paramatma is guiding the vibrance of all within these.
So, Paramatmacha, so that means because He is the supreme soul and He is the guide of all, He does not need any guide. He does not have any guide. There is no controlling or guiding principle above Him.
Krishna is Upadrishtana-mantra. He is the overseer and permitter, but there is no one who needs to oversee and permit Him. The holy name will guide us if we serve the holy name sincerely, intelligently.
attentively by chanting, then the holy name will guide us instead of super-soul guides us or rather the holy name and the super-soul are non-different. So, the holy name will help make evident to us what the guidance of the super-soul is. So, instead of the maze or the mist that often the mind subjects us to where everything seems unclear.
What we should do seems unclear by chanting. We, this is the manifestation of Krishna which elevates us to at least the mode of goodness and then beyond to transcendence and there at that stage, goodness illumination comes as we become further purified and there is the direct attainment of transcendence where we perceive, relish and realize Paramatma. So, remembering that it is the same indwelling super-soul who is all-pure and who is the guide, who has manifested to purify and guide us as the holy name, we can inspire ourselves to chant prayerfully, diligently, wholeheartedly and reap the full benefits at a spiritual selfless level of Krishna’s compassion manifesting internally as the super-soul and also accessibly as the holy name.