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श्लोक - नाम क्रमांक: 576
मराठी अर्थ
शब्द:
ॐ साम्ने नमः।
विवेचन:
जो सामवेदस्वरूप आहे, तो साम. मधुरता, शांती आणि देवस्तुतीचा गेय भाव या नावात दडलेला आहे. वेदांच्या संगीतात्मक आध्यात्मिक सौंदर्याचे अधिष्ठान म्हणजे तो.
अर्थ:
जो स्वतःच सामवेद आहे.
English Meaning
Meaning:
Om Samne Namah।
Simple Meaning:
Directly, "He Who Is the Sama Veda Itself" - the entire corpus of Vedic music and sacred sound is His own body; to chant the Sama Veda is to literally sing His form.
Mythology / Philosophy / Spiritual:
**Explanation
*Saama* means the Sama Veda, as well as equanimity (*sama* = equal/peaceful). Vishnu IS the Sama Veda — He is the divine content to which all its melodies point. He is also *Sama* in the sense of perfect equanimity — the peaceful, balanced ground of being that underlies all of creation's apparent turbulence. **Spiritual Interpretation
The Bhagavad Gita (10.22): *"Among the Vedas I am the Sama Veda."* And (6.29): *"With the intellect equal (*sama-buddhi*) everywhere, seeing the same (*Samatva*) in all beings..."* Both meanings converge in Vishnu as Saama — He is the divine song AND the divine equanimity that the song teaches. **Puranic Reference
The Chandogya Upanishad, which is the principal Upanishad of the Sama Veda tradition, uses musical metaphors extensively to describe Brahman (Vishnu) — the *Udgitha* (*AUM*) meditation being its central teaching. Vishnu as Saama is the living music of the cosmos that the Sama Veda attempts to capture in its sacred melodies.