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 Dear Devotees, 
That was an excellent, thought-provoking posting from Shriman M.K. 
Sudarshan.  
Zero in mathematics is a symbol used to represent the absence of a count in 
the number-system. Its value is defined as the limit to which the series of 
values of 1 divided by n when n tends to infinity. Like the murthi (idol) 
representing God, zero serves to represent the ultimate value of 1/n. 
It is smaller than the smallest we can grasp: anoraneeyana and the nAma shUnya 
thus effectively communicates the underlying concept to us ; it is 
also greater than the greatest. 
In the binary system of counting, there are only two numbers 0 & 1 
-- not present & present. Using this simple notation has led to great 
developments in the field of computer-programming.  
The Sahasranamam is replete with names in juxtaposition, stating two 
opposite characteristics simultaneously to describe the sarva-vyapi Vishnu - 
both 0 & 1, shoonya and poornam. 
In this context, I may be allowed to mention two quotes from outside Sri 
Vaishnava literature:
 
A famous quote from Western philosophy: 
"The nature of God is a circle 
of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." A quote from The Vijñâna Bhairava  (Kashmir 
Shaivism): 
"The Highest Reality is called shoonya or void, not because it is not Real but because it is free of all characteristics with which we are 
familiar." Dasan 
Krishnaswamy M.K. 
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