Saturday, September 02, 2006

Vishnu Sahasra namah Meaning

Adi Sankaracharya's meaning for Vishnu Sahasranamam
I stumbled upon this wonderful jewel when my wife insisted on knowing the meaning of vishnu sahasranamam to recite. You never know what you could find in Internet! This is the first work of Shri Adi Sankara in his quest to compile the vedic works. His Guru Shri Govindapadar instituted Adi Sankara to perform this work to evaluate his readiness to begin his Journey of Life. By reading this, one doesn't get just the meaning or gist of Sahasra Namam but also the meaning for simplistic rituals / procedure we perform on a daily basis. To quote one, Why do we touch our ears followed by our toe to do a namaskaram / abhivadhayae? Because while doing our nithya karma (Sandhyavandanam, reciting vishnu sahasranamam) we install GOD on our body and if we have to do a namaskaram to GOD, basically you have to do it for ourself as GOD is installed on ourselves!

Apart from the Shri Adi Sankara's work, by far the person has done a wonderful translation to English and I've never come across one such work before.

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