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Lord Narayana is none other than Lord Mahavishnu, the sustaining force of the universe. Lord Narayana, worshipped as the manifest power of preservation, as Purusha, the universal being, represents benevolent strength and power. Incarnating on earth as an avatar, Lord Narayana has manifest himself in earthly forms on nine different occasions, separated by cycles of millions of years, whenever there has been an intolerable and seemingly undefeatable rise of adharma. Lord Narayana is represented with four hands, holding a conch shell (shankha), a discus (sudarshan chakra), a lotus (padma), and a mace (gadha), each of which bears symbolic representations.
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om mahadevyai cha vidmahe vishnupatnai cha dheemahi tanno lakshmih prachodayat om narayanaya vidmahe vasudevaya dhiimahi tanno vishnuh prachodayat.
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