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The number of auspicious qualities of Vishnu as the supreme God are countless, with the following six qualities being the most important:
- Jñāna (Omniscience), defined as the power to know about all beings simultaneously
- Aishvarya (Sovereignty), derived from the word Ishvara, which consists in unchallenged rule over all
- Shakti (Energy), or power, which is the capacity to make the impossible possible
- Bala (Strength), which is the capacity to support everything by will and without any fatigue
- Vīrya (Vigor), which indicates the power to retain immateriality as the supreme being in spite of being the material cause of mutable creations
- Tejas (Splendor), which expresses His self-sufficiency and the capacity to overpower everything by His spiritual effulgence
These six qualities ”are the most important” because they’re literally everything. I love Vishnu.
This weekend I was with Dan and Christine and we were discussing how irritating and embarrassing it is to receive more than one set of chopsticks with your Chinese takeout when you ordered it all for yourself and then we made jokes about how the only person who would need more than one set of chopsticks is Vishnu because he’d be eating with three hands and doing various other tasks with the other hands and this is how I become temporarily obsessed with things and why my current iPhone background is Vishnu and why people keep sending me pictures of Vishnu and here’s Rihanna with multiple arms in the new Coldplay video.
