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मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ वैद्याय नमः।
विवेचन:
जो रोगनाशक, उपचारकर्ता आणि दुःखहारी आहे, तो वैद्यः. तो शरीराचेच नव्हे तर मन, बुद्धी आणि आत्म्याच्या क्लेशांचेही निवारण करतो. भवरोगाचा उपाय करणारा परम चिकित्सक म्हणून हे नाव अतिशय भावपूर्ण आहे.
अर्थ:
सर्व रोगांचा (संसार रोगाचा) नाश करणारा.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Vaidyaya Namah।
Simple Meaning:
From *vaidya* (one learned in medicine, the physician); "The Divine Physician" — He Who heals the deepest disease of all — the illness of *samsara*, the cycle of repeated birth and suffering
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
**Medical metaphor in Vedānta<br> The Vedāntic tradition frequently employs the medical metaphor for the path of liberation: the disease is ‘saṃsāra’ (bound existence driven by ignorance and desire), the patient is the ‘jīva’ (individual soul), the physician is the ‘guru/Bhagavān’, and the medicine is ‘jñāna-bhakti’ (wisdom-devotion). Viṣṇu as Vaidyaḥ is the supreme physician in this cosmic medical drama — not one who merely treats symptoms but one who cures the root disease of spiritual ignorance. **Dhanvantari avatāra<br> The Lord took the specific avatāra of Dhanvantari — the divine physician — arising from the churning of the milk-ocean bearing the nectar of immortality. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (8.8.34) narrates this birth: Dhanvantari emerged holding the pot of amṛta, and He is the father of Āyurveda (the science of life). As Vaidyaḥ, Viṣṇu is simultaneously the cosmic physician who heals spiritual disease AND the divine Dhanvantari who established the science of physical healing for the benefit of all beings.