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श्लोक - नाम क्रमांक: 167
मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ माधवाय नमः।
विवेचन:
जो लक्ष्मीपती आहे आणि मधुर, मंगलमय स्वरूपाचा आहे, तो माधवः. भक्तांच्या हृदयात प्रेम, सौंदर्य आणि शांती निर्माण करणारा तोच आहे. आनंद, माधुर्य आणि ऐश्वर्य यांचे एकत्र अधिष्ठान म्हणजे माधव.
अर्थ:
विद्या आणि ज्ञानाचा स्वामी.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Madhavaya Namah।
Simple Meaning:
Repeated from name 72; "The Lord of Lakshmi, the Spring Lord" — repeated here to emphasize His quality of divine sweetness and His eternal relationship with the goddess of grace and prosperity
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
The reappearance of ‘Mādhavaḥ’ here, at the close of this group of 167 names, is deeply intentional in the compositional structure of the Sahasranāma. After the extraordinary journey through cosmic functions, avatāric forms, philosophical attributes, and divine qualities — the Sahasranāma returns to ‘Mādhavaḥ’: the husband of Mā (Lakṣmī), the Lord of sweetness, the spring of divine beauty. **Etymological richness revisited<br> At this second occurrence, the commentarial tradition unpacks ‘Mādhavaḥ’ more completely. ‘Mā’ = Lakṣmī = the divine śakti who is the power of liberation (‘mokṣa-śakti’). ‘Dhava’ = husband, but also ‘the way’ — Mādhavaḥ is the Way that Lakṣmī herself walks, the path that leads through Her grace to the Lord's feet. He is the goal, and She is the approach — together they form the complete path of Śrī-Vaiṣṇava theology: one reaches the Lord through the mediation of Śrī Lakṣmī, who is the ‘purushakāra’ (the divine recommender who presents the soul to the Lord). **The meaning of Madhu revisited<br> ‘Madhu’ also means spring — the season of blossoming, of sweetness, of new life after winter. Viṣṇu as Mādhavaḥ is the eternal spring of the soul — the divine season that blooms within the heart when the ice of ignorance melts in the warmth of divine love. Every genuine spiritual awakening, every moment of devotional sweetness (‘bhakti-mādhurya’), every experience of the Lord's grace — is Mādhavaḥ arriving as the inner spring. **The Mahābhārata<br> The name ‘Mādhava’ is Kṛṣṇa's most-used name in the Mahābhārata — appearing hundreds of times across its eighteen books. It is the name that the sages, the heroes, and the devotees use most naturally when they speak to or of Kṛṣṇa. There is a sense in which ‘Mādhava’ is the name that captures the Lord's essence most accessibly — not the terrifying Cosmic Form of Chapter 11, not the remote Absolute of Vedānta, but the sweet, approachable, beautiful Lord who is always close, always loving, always the spring in the soul's winter.