![]() People generally recite the names to fulfilltheir desires or ward off evil influences.Names of the Lord starting from 191 to 229 out of 1000 names of Vishnu Sahasranama. Miraculous virtues are attributed to it and are assured by theauthor Vyasa himself.The ancient custom, still observed in the villages, especially in SouthIndia, is to repeat each name of the Sahasranama, offering Tulsi petals or anyavailable flowers of the season before the idol of Vishnu in his variousincarnations of Rama or Krishna. It is heldin great veneration all over India, and is recited by people across all classesof society. Sahasranama Stotras to many deities are found scatteredthroughout the Puranic literature, and the most important of these are theSahasranamas of Devi, Vishnu and Shiva.The Vishnu Sahasranama is considered as important as, and contains 142verses, and is extracted from the Anushasaka Parva of the Mahabharata inChapter 1 of the epic in a dialogue between Bhishma and Yudhishtara. TheVishnu Sahasranma Stotras are prayers addressed to Vishnu and invoke him with athousand names. ![]() He is the preserver of life and the existence itself. Man’s only duty should be to sing His hymns and worship the Lord.(v)The Supreme good is the Lord who is the final end of all beings. He put the following six questions to Bhishma:(i)What is that one Godhead that is declared in all the knowledge- disciplines?(ii)What is the sole supreme goal?(iii)Worshipping whom, do men attain the one and final goal?(iv)Worshipping whom, do they gain the highest bliss?(v)Among all the dharmas, which is the supreme dharma?(vi)By reciting which is a living being liberated from the bondage of the cycle of births and deaths? Bhishma replied as follows:(i)That by reciting the myriad epithets of Vishnu one can get liberated from the human bondage.(ii)By worshipping Vishnu with devotion one can gain the supreme good.(iii)By praising for ever that all-pervading Vishnu who is undiminished, unborn, endless, immanent supreme Lord only, one can get beyond all sorrow.(iv)Of all the dharmas, the greatest dharnia is to incessantly and devoutly worship the lotus eyed Vishnu. At that time, Yudhisthira requested his master Bhishma Pitamaha to instruct him on the principles of dharma. Bhishma was waiting for uttarayana to dawn so as to give up his mortal coils. Yudhisthira and the Pan- dus therefore went and met Bhishma who was lying on a bed of arrows set up by Arjuna. The Pandavas respected him as their Guru and Pitamaha. ![]()
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