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मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ निमिषाय नमः।
विवेचन:
जो डोळे मिटण्याच्या सूक्ष्म अवस्थेचाही अधिपती आहे, तो निमिषः. ध्यानातील अर्धोन्मीलित, अंतर्मुख आणि समाधिस्त स्वरूपाशी हे नाव जोडले जाते. सूक्ष्म जागरूकता आणि अंतःचिंतन यांचे हे गूढ प्रतीक आहे.
अर्थ:
योग निद्रेत डोळे मिटलेला.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Nimishaya Namah।
Simple Meaning:
From ni + misha (to wink, blink); "He Who Has Closed Eyes, the One Who Appears to Sleep" - a reference to His cosmic yoga-nidra (divine sleep) on Adi Shesha between cycles of creation; or one who acts without visible effort.
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
**Explanation<br> *Nimisha* means the twinkling/blinking of an eye. One *nimisha* (moment) in Vishnu's experience encompasses enormous cosmic time. The name suggests that cosmic creation, maintenance, and dissolution happen within what is, from Vishnu's perspective, the briefest moment — as an eye blinks. All of time is contained within His eternal consciousness. **Spiritual Interpretation<br> This name powerfully communicates the relativity of time from the divine perspective. What humans experience as billions of years — entire cosmic cycles — is for Vishnu a momentary *nimisha* (blink). The Bhagavata Purana's description of Brahma's day as 4.32 billion human years, and Vishnu's perspective as encompassing countless Brahma-lifetimes, makes the *nimisha* imagery profound. The Yoga Vasishtha uses exactly this teaching — what appears as vast cosmic duration from within the dream of creation is, from the standpoint of the awakened consciousness (Vishnu), the briefest moment. This relativizes all human anxiety about time and impermanence. **Puranic Reference<br> The Mahabharata (Shanti Parva, Vishnu Sahasranama section) references Vishnu's timeless nature — His *nimisha* containing cosmic ages. The Bhagavata Purana (3.11.3-8) contains a detailed analysis of Vedic time-units from the *paramanu* (smallest time-atom) to the *Maha-Kalpa* — all arising from and dissolving into Vishnu's timeless consciousness.