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Çré Viñëusahasranäma
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tad viddhi praëipätena paripraçnena sevayä
upadekñyanti te jïänaà jïäninas tattva-darçinaù
“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master.
Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him.
The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because
he has seen the truth.” [Bhagavad-gétä 4.34]
One should fully accept all these merciful scriptural
instructions of the Lord as one’s purpose in life to quickly
perfect one’s self-realization and put an end to all misery.
Hearing and chanting the Holy Names of the Lord is the only
effective medicine for the disease of material suffering.
Anyone in material conditioned existence can cleanse their
consciousness from all material contamination and find relief
from all misconceptions by this simple process (ceto-darpaëamärjanam).
Avidyä or ignorance is simply a misconception
about one's actual spiritual identity. This misconception
provides the foundation for ahaìkära, or false ego within the
heart.
The real cause of all our suffering is the contamination of
material identification within the heart. If we cleanse our heart,
if we cleanse our consciousness of this false identification with
temporary material designations, the material disease can no
longer affect us. This is actual self-realization. The chanting of
the Holy Names of the Lord quickly cleanses the consciousness
and heart from all misconceptions, and the ever-fresh taste of
transcendental nectar arises spontaneously within the mind. It
is both easy and beneficial. By chanting the nectarean Holy
Names, one is immediately freed from the blazing fire of
material existence by the blissful personal association of the
Lord.
For those who are already Vaiñëavas
This edition and companion CD are designed both for new
practitioners, and for those who are already devotees of Kåñëa
and want to add chanting Çré Viñëusahasranäma to their
personal spiritual practice. Why would anyone who is an
initiated disciple of a Vaiñëava spiritual master and already
chanting the hare kåñëa mahä-mantra also want to chant Çré