ॐ मायागुढविमानाय श्रीवेङ्कटेशाय नमः
OM mAyAguDhavimAnAya shrIve~NkaTeshAya namaH
SALUTATIONS TO LORD VENKATESA, WHOSE VIMAANAM IS HIDDEN IN VISHNU MAAYA!
Explanation: "Though Rishis like Agastya were residing for long on the banks of Swami Pushkarini, carrying out their holy duties, they were unanble to see the
Ananda Vimaanam on the southern banks of the waters.
When it became visible to them one fine morning, they knew immediately that the reason they had not been able to see the glorious vimaanam thus far, was the Lord's maayaa.
For twelve long years, the Rishis were fortunate to take a dip in the Pushkarini, contemplate the Ashtaakshara Mantra and worship the magnificent vimaanam.
One day the Vimaanam just disappeared again, as mysteriously as it had materialised. To his wonderstruck colleagues, Sage Agasthya explains the true postion that the Ananda Vimaanam had indeed been present all along and was still there, on the southern banks of the Pushakarini.
It was due to the Lord's inscrutable will, His Maayaa that the Vimaanam appeared for a brief period and then disappeared equally inexplicably. It is thus clear that in the previous yugaas, the sight of the Ananda Vimaanam was reserved for the elite punyaatmaas, the pious and devout.
It is a measure of the Lord's infinite mercy and compassion for us that He has made the Vimaanam ever visible even to the impaired vision of sinners and offenders like us, so that the very sight of the Vimaanam would lure us from our errant ways to tread the path of righteousness and ultimately reach the Lord through the adoption of an appropriate strategy for liberation, through an Acharya.
The other interpretation for this naama is:
“Salutations to Lord VenkatEsa, who is present in His VimAnam in a subtle manner!"
Lord VenkatEsA's vimAnam is known as Anandha nilaya (abode of Bliss) VimAnam. We offer our salutations first to the Lord present in a discrete manner in this VimAnam (VimAna VenkatEsan) before we proceed to the sanctum sanctorium of Lord VenkatEsan, where He is waiting for us in a very visible manner.
In the VimAnam, between the kalasam and its base (peetam), VimAna VenkatEsan is present in a discrete manner. He is hence referred to as: “MaayA gooDa VimAnan".
Cited from "Venkatesa ashtothram - Varaha Puranam"
(from SADAGOPAN.ORG)
