Shloka 43
Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine
आपो नाराऽ इति प्रोक्ता मुनिभिस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ।
अयनं तस्य ताः पूर्वं तेन नारायणः स्मृतः ॥
āpo nārā iti proktā munibhis tattvadarśibhiḥ | ayanaṃ tasya tāḥ pūrvaṃ tena nārāyaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ ||
ತತ್ತ್ವದರ್ಶಿ ಋಷಿಗಳು ನೀರನ್ನು ‘ನಾರಾ’ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಆ ನೀರುಗಳು ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನ ಶಯನಸ್ಥಾನ (ಅಯನ)ವಾಗಿದ್ದುದರಿಂದ ಅವನು ‘ನಾರಾಯಣ’ ಎಂದು ಸ್ಮರಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಾನೆ।
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FAQs
The verse teaches that sacred names encode metaphysical insight: Nārāyaṇa is not merely a personal label but a doctrinal pointer to the primordial condition (cosmic waters) and the Lord’s transcendence/immanence as the ground and refuge of creation.
Primarily Sarga (creation/cosmogony): it references the primordial waters as an early cosmological principle and connects the deity’s epithet to the pre-creation or initial-creation milieu.
“Waters” can symbolize the undifferentiated causal state (avyakta/prakṛti-like potentiality) from which forms emerge. Calling the Lord ‘He whose resting-place is the waters’ suggests mastery over, and repose within, the causal continuum—i.e., consciousness abiding in the unmanifest while remaining the source of manifestation.