Today's [26th February 2008] lecture is from the Sri Srinivasa Perumal temple in Kalyanapuram, near Thirukandiyur Divya Desam. It is on the banks of Kaveri and on the opposite banks is the samadhi of Sadguru Thyagaraja of Thiruvaiyaru. Many great scholars belonged to this place. Bhootha = past, bhavya = future and bhavat = present. He is the Lord in the past, present and future. Some are the lords for a limited time as in our offices. We obey their orders as long as their tenure as our boss is there. But either by retirement or other reasons, when the person is no longer our boss, we do not obey his orders. All gods other than Sriman Narayana have a tenure and so they can not be identified by this name. They are not Lords for ever. Sri Vishnu is the Lord in the past, present and future, and His Lordship extends to all places and on all objects and in all stages. Brahma is called Prajapati, as he creates all creatures in this world. But his position is not permanent and the Puranas say that once Brahma performed meditation at the fag end of his tenure, and when the Lord appeared, he requested Him to grant an extension to his tenure so that he could be Prajapati for some more time. We have to note that this position also is granted by the Lord only. We can also interpret this name to indicate Sri Vishnu is the Lord for persons in all the three times - past, future and present. When Sri Rama came to forests in exile, the sages there welcomed and told that though He was not ruling Ayodya, they recognised Him as the Paramatman and so would regard Him as Lord even in the forests.
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