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श्लोक - नाम क्रमांक: 204
मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ अजाय नमः।
विवेचन:
जो अजन्मा आहे, किंवा स्वयंप्रकट स्वरूपाने कार्य करतो, तो अजः. तो जन्माच्या बंधनात न अडकता अवताररूपाने प्रकट होतो. अनादि स्वरूप आणि स्वातंत्र्य या दोन्ही अर्थांनी हे नाव पूजनीय आहे.
अर्थ:
प्रलय काळीही जो असतो.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Ajaya Namah।
Simple Meaning:
Repeated from name 95; "The Unborn One" - its repetition here renews the profound truth that He was never born and can never die; He is prior to all births and beyond all deaths.
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
**Why It Matters
This paradoxical name's quadruple appearance progressively resolves the avatar mystery. First repetition establishes God as unborn; second shows the Unborn voluntarily appearing as born; third deepens understanding that divine essence remains unaffected by apparent births; fourth completes the teaching that our true Self (one with God) is also unborn - birth and death are body's experiences, not soul's reality. **The Story
The Bhagavad Gita (4.6) contains the definitive Aja statement: "Though I am unborn (Aja) and My Self is imperishable, though I am the Lord of all beings, yet establishing Myself in My own nature, I come into being through My own Maya." The Bhagavata Purana describes Krishna's "birth" where Vasudeva and Devaki first saw the four-armed Vishnu form with all divine weapons before seeing the baby - showing the Unborn consciously choosing to appear as born while remaining essentially unborn. The Katha Upanishad (1.2.18) teaches: "The knowing Self is not born; It does not die. It has not sprung from anything; nothing has sprung from It. Birthless, eternal, everlasting, ancient, It is not killed when the body is killed." The quadruple repetition might represent being unborn in four ways - having no temporal beginning (eternal), requiring no cause (self-existent), undergoing no change (immutable), experiencing no decay (imperishable).