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The 49th Naamam of SrI VenkatEsa AshtOttharam:
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NirguNAya Nama:

One who is Suddha Satthva Mayan (Suddha Satthva dhivya MangaLaVigrahan  without any admixture of Rajas and Tamas).

NirguNa does not mean One without any KalyANa GuNAs. It meansthat He is the one above all the three GuNAs . He is different fromthe  Kshara or perishable  perishable entities ( from Brahma  down tothe blade of grass ) and Akshara/ kUtasta entities( totally liberated selves).

Our Lord VenkatEsan is  in  a  category of His own as the Supreme Person(PurushOtthaman/ParamAthmaa).

He is immutable ; He enters all the worlds and their beings and yetis  untouched by the dhOshams associated with the three guNams.

"  Bound non-conscient " matter affected by GuNAs is bound to decayand perish. Since our Lord is beyond GuNAs in the Suddha Sathtvastate , He is imperishable. The world's blemishes just do not touch Himeven if  He mingles in the world. He is not  a karma vasyan unlike the others bound  by  the thre guNAs.Upanishadic example of the two  birdssitting on the same  tree (One eating the fruit and the other not eating the fruits of the tree) are relevant here:

dhvA SuparNA sayujA sakhAyA samAnam vruksham parishasvajAthE
TaOranya: pippalam svAdhvathi anasnanyO abhichAkaseethi

--Mundaka Upanishad: 3.1.1

(meaning): " The two birds (JivAthman and ParamAthman) having similar qualities and moving together sit on the same tree. Of these two , the one eats the fruit of Karma that is ripe and the other shines out even without eating".

This "NirguNa " , Suddha Satthva Maya PurushOtthaman stays in His supreme abode of SrI Vaikuntam free from the three GuNAs and is pure and is  the light of lights  according to the knowers of aatman:

HiraNmayE parE kOsE virajam Brahma nishkalam
Tacchubram JyOthishAm JyOthis-tadhyadhmavidhO vidhu:

--Mundaka Upanishad: 2.2.10




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