Vishnu

Si Vishnu (honoripiko: Bhagavan Vishnu) ay ang Supremong Diyos sa tradisyong Vaishnavite Hinduismo. Ang mga Smartang tagasunod ng Adi Shankara, gaya ng iba, ay sinasamba si Vishnu bilang isa sa mga limang pangunahing anyo ng Diyos,^[1] at ang kanyang katayuang supremo ay sinasabi sa mga sagradong tekstong Hindu gaya ng Yajurveda, Rigveda at ang Bhagavad Gita.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Ang Vishnu Sahasranama^[7] ay nagsasabi na si Vishnu ang Paramatma (supremong kaluluwa) at Parameshwara (supremong Diyos). Sinasabi rin nito na si Vishnu ang Kalahatlahatang essensiya ng lahat ng nilalang, ang maestro ng nakalipas, ngayon at kinabukasan, ang tagalikha at tagawasak ng lahat ng buhay, tagasuporta, tagapanatili at tagapamahala ng Sansinukob at pinangagagalingan at tagapagunlad ng lahat ng elementong napapaloob dito.

Sa Puranas, si Vishnu ay may banal na kulay ng ulap (madilim na bughaw), may apat na kamay na hawak ang lotus, mace, conch at chakra (gulong). Si Vishnu ay nilalarawan sa Bhagavad Gita na may 'Anyong Pangsansinukob' (Vishvarupa) na hindi kayang unawain ng mga tao.^[8]

Mga sanggunian

↑ The Sri Vaishnava Brahmans, K. Rangachari (1931)p. 2
↑ Albrecht Weber, Die Taittirîya-Saṃhitâ, Leipzig, Indische Studien 11-12, Brockhaus (1871, 1872) etext
↑ A. Berridale Keith, The Yajur Veda - Taittiriya Sanhita 1914, full text, (online at sacred-texts.com). For specific verse, see [Kanda V, verse 5.1. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/yv05.htm] "all the deities are Agni; the sacrifice is Visnu; verily he lays hold of the deities and the sacrifice; Agni is the lowest of the deities, Visnu the highest"
↑ Devi Chand, The Yajurveda. Sanskrit text with English translation. Third thoroughly revised and enlarged edition (1980).
↑ The Sanhitâ of the Black Yajur Veda with the Commentary of Mâdhava ‘Achârya, Calcutta (Bibl. Indica, 10 volumes, 1854-1899)
↑ Due to differences in recensions the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25 – 42. (see: Sastras studies) or as chapters 6.23-40 (The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) electronic edition. Electronic text (C) Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 1999.) According to the recension of the Gita commented on by Shankaracharya, the number of verses is 700, but there is evidence to show that old manuscripts had 745 verses.(Gambhiranda (1997), p. xvii.)
↑ Sri Vishnu Sahasaranama - Transliteration and Translation of Chanting
↑ Prabhupada, AC Bhaktivedanta. "Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 11 Verse 3". vedabase.net. Inarkibo mula sa orihinal noong 2008-05-15. Nakuha noong 2008-05-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link) "..see the cosmic manifestation"

[1] The Sri Vaishnava Brahmans, K. Rangachari (1931)p. 2

[2] Albrecht Weber, Die Taittirîya-Saṃhitâ, Leipzig, Indische Studien 11-12, Brockhaus (1871, 1872) etext

[3] A. Berridale Keith, The Yajur Veda - Taittiriya Sanhita 1914, full text, (online at sacred-texts.com). For specific verse, see [Kanda V, verse 5.1. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/yv05.htm] "all the deities are Agni; the sacrifice is Visnu; verily he lays hold of the deities and the sacrifice; Agni is the lowest of the deities, Visnu the highest"

[4] Devi Chand, The Yajurveda. Sanskrit text with English translation. Third thoroughly revised and enlarged edition (1980).

[5] The Sanhitâ of the Black Yajur Veda with the Commentary of Mâdhava ‘Achârya, Calcutta (Bibl. Indica, 10 volumes, 1854-1899)

[6] Due to differences in recensions the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25 – 42. (see: Sastras studies) or as chapters 6.23-40 (The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) electronic edition. Electronic text (C) Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 1999.) According to the recension of the Gita commented on by Shankaracharya, the number of verses is 700, but there is evidence to show that old manuscripts had 745 verses.(Gambhiranda (1997), p. xvii.)

[7] Sri Vishnu Sahasaranama - Transliteration and Translation of Chanting

[8] Prabhupada, AC Bhaktivedanta. "Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 11 Verse 3". vedabase.net. Inarkibo mula sa orihinal noong 2008-05-15. Nakuha noong 2008-05-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link) "..see the cosmic manifestation"

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