Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram

विष्णु सहस्रनाम स्तोत्रम्

Anushasana Parva, Mahabharata Deity: Vishnu Metre: Anushtup 170 verses

After the Mahabharata war, Yudhishthira went to Bhishma, dying on a bed of arrows, and asked him the simplest, hardest question: how do you find peace? Bhishma's answer was this hymn. A thousand names of Vishnu, each one a handle you can hold onto. People have been chanting it every morning across India for centuries, and there's a reason it endures: the rhythm gets into you. Twenty minutes of these names and the noise in your head quiets down. That's not metaphor, ask anyone who's kept up the practice.

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Pūrvapīṭhikā

1
śuklāmbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujam
prasannavadanaṃ dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye
2
yasya dviradavaktrādyāḥ pāriṣadyāḥ paraśśatam
vighnaṃ nighnanti satataṃ viṣvaksenaṃ tamāśraye
3
vyāsaṃ vasiṣṭhanaptāraṃ śakteḥ pautramakalmaṣam
parāśarātmajaṃ vande śukatātaṃ taponidhim
4
vyāsāya viṣṇurūpāya vyāsarūpāya viṣṇave
namo vai brahmanidhaye vāsiṣṭhāya namo namaḥ
5
avikārāya śuddhāya nityāya paramātmane
sadaikarūparūpāya viṣṇave sarvajiṣṇave

Uttarapīṭhikā

170
ārtā viṣaṇṇāśśithilāśca bhītāḥ ghoreṣu ca vyādhiṣu vartamānāḥ
saṅkīrtya nārāyaṇaśabdamātraṃ vimuktaduḥkhāssukhino bhavanti

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