Category:Visnu's Hand
Theme Analysis
The compiled instructions within this category reveal the immense power, protection, and absolute control resting within the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu. As described by Śrīla Prabhupāda, the specific arrangement of the transcendental weapons in the Lord's four hands determines the identities of His twenty-four primary forms. Furthermore, His hands perfectly illustrate His dual purpose: bestowing blessings upon His devotees and delivering swift justice to the demonic elements.
- The Divine Emblems: The Lord eternally manifests with four beautifully decorated hands, gracefully holding the conchshell, disc, club, and lotus flower, which determine the specific identities of His twenty-four primary manifestations.
- Dual Purpose of Protection and Punishment: The hands holding the lotus flower and conchshell offer supreme blessings and pacification to the devotees, while the hands wielding the club and disc are utilized exclusively to annihilate demons.
- Ultimate Cosmic Direction: While the demigods take charge of the three modes of material nature, the ultimate control and direction of the entire cosmic manifestation securely remain in the infallible hand of Lord Viṣṇu.
- The Object of True Meditation: Authentic mystic yoga and samādhi require the practitioner to meditate step-by-step on this absolute, localized four-handed form within the heart, complete with His weapons and ornaments.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Lord Viṣṇu's Hand Offers Blessings and Annihilates Demons.
Pages in category "Visnu's Hand"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- A lotus flower is also an insignia in the hand of Lord Visnu as well as in the hand of the goddess of fortune. The worshipers of the goddess of fortune and Lord Visnu together are certainly very opulent in all respects, even in material life
- According to Viraraghava Acarya, the conchshell and lotus flower (of Visnu) are also accepted as weapons. Since the Lord is the supreme controller, whatever is in His hand can be considered a weapon
- Actually yoga meditation means to see the form of the Lord, four-handed visnu-murti within the heart. That is real meditation. Now these rascals, they have manufactured so-called meditation. That is not meditation
- All of these take charge of the three modes of material nature, but the ultimate direction is in the hand of Lord Visnu
- As iron attracted by a magnetic stone moves automatically toward the magnet, my (Prahlada's) consciousness, having been changed by His (Lord Visnu's) will, is attracted by Lord Visnu, who carries a disc in His hand. Thus I have no independence
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- He (the lotus-eyed Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead) resembled a bluish rain cloud with flashing lightning, and in two of His four hands He held a conchshell and disc
- His (Lord Visnu's) lovely wrists were graced with bracelets, and He rested one of His hands on the shoulder of Garuda, His carrier, and twirled a lotus with another hand
- His (Lord Visnu) four hands were decorated with a conchshell, club, lotus and disc, He was dressed in yellow garments, and His eyes appeared like the petals of a blooming lotus
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- In His Visnu form, the Lord carries four weapons in His four hands - a lotus flower and a conchshell in two hands, and in the other two hands a club and a disc
- In two hands Lord Visnu always carries a club and a cakra to kill demons, and in His other two hands He holds a conchshell and a lotus to give protection to His devotees
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- Lord Brahma could then see You possessing thousands and thousands of faces, feet, heads, hands, thighs, noses, ears and eyes. You were very nicely dressed, being decorated and bedecked with varieties of ornaments and weapons
- Lord Visnu was sitting on Garuda, a big aquiline bird, and was carrying in His hand a disc, Brahma was sitting on a swan and had in his hand kusa grass, and Lord Siva was sitting on a bull and carrying in his hand a small drum called a damaru
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- May the SPG, who bears the Srivatsa on His chest, protect me after midnight until the sky becomes pinkish. May Lord Janardana, who carries a sword in His hand, protect me at the end of night (during the last four ghatikas of night)
- My dear Sanatana, just hear from Me as I tell you how the different visnu-murtis hold Their weapons, beginning with the disc, and how They are named differently according to the placement of the weapons in Their hands
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- The demons killed by Lord Visnu's cakra disc and club are elevated to the spiritual world, just like the devotees who are protected by the hands holding the lotus flower and conchshell
- The Lord Viththaladeva mentioned in this verse (CC Madhya 9.282) is a form of Lord Visnu with two hands. He is Narayana
- The procedure for counting begins with the lower right hand and goes to the upper right hand, the upper left hand, and the lower left hand. Lord Visnu is named according to the order of the weapons He holds in His hands
- The Visnu form called Ananta-sayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material world
- Those devotees (who have surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord) are so respectable and exalted that Lord Visnu personally protects them with the club in His hand
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- When describing the positions of objects in the hands of the Visnu murtis, one should begin with the lower right hand and then move to the upper right hand, to the upper left hand and finally to the lower left hand
- When one describes the positions of objects in the hands of the Visnu murti, one should begin with the lower right hand then move to the upper right hand, upper left hand and, finally, to the lower left hand. In this way, Vasudeva may be described