Visnu Sahasra Nama Stotram

VIṢNU SAHASRA NĀMA
1000 NAMES OF LORD VIṢNU

VIṢṆU SAHASRA NĀMA
Reference
Viṣṇusahasranāma
With translation and commentary by
Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Sri Sruti Seva Trust

Arsha Vidya Gurukulam
Anaikatti, Coimbatore
Phone: 0422-2657001 or 0422-2658269
Email: arsha1@vsni.com
• The Viṣnu Sahasranāma stotram is given in the Bhīṣma parva of
the Mahābhārata
• The Mahābhārata is presented as a dialog between Ugraśaravas
and a group of Maharṣis headed by Śaunaka
• Ugraśaravas was the son of Sage Romaharṣaṇa
• Sage Romaharṣaṇa (otherwise known as Sūtapaurānika or
Sūtaputra) was called Romaharṣaṇa because of his delightful
and thrilling narrative style (story telling)
• The context of the Mahābhārata…
• A group of rṣis led by Sage Śaunaka were performing a yaga
lasting for years (dīrgha yāga) in the Naimiśāraṇya forest
• When Ugraśaravas came to visit them the rṣis asked him
(Ugraśaravas) to narrate to them anything new that he had
come across in the course of his travels
• The context of the Mahābhārata………..
• Ugraśaravas related the Mahābhārata to the rṣis, which he
(Ugraśaravas) had heard from Sage Vaiśampāyana
• Sage Vaiśampāyana had heard the story directly from Sage
Veda Vyāsa himself, when Sage Veda Vyāsa was telling the
story to King Janamajeya when Janamajeya was doing a
sarpa-yāga
• King Janamajeya was the son of King Parīkṣit
• King Parīkṣit was the son of Abhimanyu
• Abhimanyu was the son of Arjuna
• The context of the Mahābhārata………..
• Essentially, the Mahābhārata is therefore a dialog between
Ugraśaravas and Śaunaka, in which there is a dialog between
Vaiśampāyana and Janamajeya
• Vaiśampāyana now brings out the dialog between Yudhiṣṭhira
and Bhīṣma from the Mahabharata, where the Viṣnu
sahasranāma stotra is presented
• Sri Bhiṣma, the grandsire of the Kuru dynasty, laid down his arms
on the 10th day of the 18-day Mahabharata War and was awaiting
the beginning of the Uttarayaṇa (northward ascension of the Sun)
to breathe his last
• All the Pandavas had great love and respect for Sri Bhiṣma even
though he had fought on behalf of Duryodhana and had led the
Kaurava army for 10 days
• Arjuna had created a bed of arrows on which Sri Bhiṣma rested
• Yudhiśṭira, the eldest of the Pandava princes, knew that Sri
Bhiṣma was a great devotee of Lord Kṛṣna and approached him
to ask him six questions about how to achieve unity with the Lord
(Self-Knowledge) and what path one should follow in conducting
oneself to prepare for this knowledge
• Bhiṣma answered all of Yudhiśṭira’s questions
• Bhiṣma gave Yudhiśṭira (and through Yudhiśṭira to all of us) the
Viṣnu sahasranāma stotram
• Why chant the Lord’s (Īśvara) name?
• Īśvara is one who protects, sustains and is the source of
blessing; Īśvara is limitless
• When one chant’s Īśvara name with devotion there is bound to
be a benefit; there is a purpose in it
• Chanting Īśvara’s name helps us know the unchanging truth
(sat) and know the limitlessness, which is our true nature
• Instead when one chants any other name (say of a time-bound
limited individual or object) it becomes a mere obsession and
only limited results (if any) are possible
• Why chant the Viṣṇu sahasranama?
• Chanting the Viṣṇu sahasranama stotram will bring prosperity
to the individual – (Dharma-Artha-Kāma)
• It will bring peace & clarity to one’s mind so he/she can
understand one’s place in the scheme of things (Īśvara’s order)
• A life lived in harmony with the Īśvara’s order in the universe
prepares one’s mind to ultimately discover and know the sat-
chit-ananda svarupa, which is our essential nature and lead
one to discover the limitless freedom, which is one’s intrinsic
nature - (Mokśa)
• The Viṣnu Sahasranāma stotram consists of three sections
• Purva bhaga (introductory section)
• Stotram (main section)
• Uttara bhaga (concluding section)
• Additional concluding mantras are also chanted according to
tradition (there may be variations)
Sri Viṣnu Bhagavan
• What does Bhagavan mean?
• It is Īśvara’s six-fold virtues (Bhagas) in absolute
measure:
• Jnāna (all knowledge)
• Vairāgya (total dispassion)
• Vīrya (capacity to create, sustain & resolve)
• Yaśas (absolute fame)
• Śri (all wealth)
• Aiśvarya (overlordship)
STOTRAM…
कायेन वाचा मनसेन्द्रियैर्वा ।
बुद्ध्यात्मना वा प्रकृ तिस्वभावात् ।
करोमि यद्यत्सकलं परस्मै ।
नारायणरायेति समर्पयामि ॥
kāyena vācā manasendriyairvā
buddhyātmanā vā prakṛteh svabhāvāt |
karomi yad-yat-sakalam parasmai
nārāyaṇāyeti samarpayāmi ||

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