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श्लोक - नाम क्रमांक: 7
मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ भावाय नमः।
विवेचन:
जो जगाच्या विविध भावरूपांत प्रकट होतो, तो भावः. सृष्टीतील उत्पत्ती, स्थिती, परिवर्तन आणि अनुभव यांच्या मागील चैतन्य तोच आहे. सर्व भावनांना, अस्तित्वाला आणि अनुभवाला अर्थ देणारे तत्त्व म्हणजे हा भाव.
अर्थ:
जो स्वतःच अस्तित्वात आहे.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Bhavaya Namah।
Simple Meaning:
From *bhu* (to be, to exist); "Pure Existence Itself" or "He Who Simply Is" — existence without beginning, without cause, without dependence on anything else
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
**Vedantic depth
This is among the most philosophically profound of the early names. Bhāvaḥ identifies Viṣṇu with ‘sat’ (pure existence) — the first component of the ‘saccidānanda’ triad. All relative existence (the existence of chairs, rivers, bodies, thoughts) is borrowed existence — it participates in and depends upon the absolute Existence that is Viṣṇu. The Chāndogya Upaniṣad (6.2.1): ‘"Sad eva saumya idam agra āsīt"‘ — "In the beginning, O dear one, this was pure Being (Sat) alone." **Secondary meaning
‘Bhāva’ also means "feeling" or "emotion" — the Lord is the very source of all feeling, all love, all aesthetic experience (‘rasa’). In the Bhāgavata tradition, this connects directly to the concept of ‘bhakti-rasa’: devotional emotion is not merely a human response — it originates in the Lord Himself, who is ‘Bhāvaḥ’.