Narayana, in Hinduism, is the purification of the creative of Vishnu associated, therefore, with the sun. It is Narayana, as solar energy moving upon the face of the waters, which produces creation.
Narayana with his toe in his mouth, from Moor's The Hindu Pantheon, 1810
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The limit of Contraction now was fixd & Man began
To wake upon the Couch of Death...
Sathyanarayana is also good at sleight of hand, which he uses because he cannot predict when the occult being will manifest (indeed, it never works the way the personality does).
" Some, it says, speak of Shiva, some of Shakti, some of Narayana (Vishnu). But the supreme Narayana (Adinarayana) is supreme Shiva (Parashambhu), the Nirguna Brahman, pure as crystal. The two aspects of the Supreme reflect the one in the other.
Narayanan's ICSI page
David Bailey's Research Page
Rationality in Plato's Protagoras
Cognitive Science Research Center For The Metaphor & Metaphoric Mind
Return of the mental image: are there really pictures in the brain? : Zenon Pylyshyn ...
Generally Narayana is spoken of as the great Being in the Sun. The Sun in that sense is the manifestation, the body, of the Ishvara of the system.
from the universal egg -- (infinite chaos) as light, for his understanding is now opened, and he sets himself to work; he moves on the eternal waters, with the spirit of God within himself; in his capacity of mover of the waters he is Narayana." ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Sacred, Ritual, Brahma
  
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