1000 Names of Vishnu

Most of the world's major religions celebrate the Holy Names of God. Christians have commentaries like St. Bernard's Jewish mystics made the Divine Names the focus of meditation. Muslims have the Most Excellent Names. Holy, Merciful, Compassionate. Truth, the One-such names appear in all religions, emphasizing that however we worship, the Lord is one and the same.

In India, one of the most popular of these litanies is the Thousand Names of Vishnu. Vishnu is God the Preserver, the sustainer of life, worshipped by millions in his incarnations as Rama and Krishna.

"Om I worship Lord Vishnu, who has become the universe and pervades all. Lord of past, present and future. He is being and the essence of all beings: he is the pure and supreme Self in all. His face is everywhere…..

In a thousand ways, the Thousand Names a single message: the Lord is everything, everywhere. His names evoke the qualities that elevate our lives: forgiveness, beauty, tenderness, compassion, love.

Eknath Easwaran comments on a fraction of the Thousand Names and what each one means in a daily living. This is a book for daily inspiration, full of personal reminders of what it means to see God in the faces and events of everyday life.

About the Author

Eknath Easwaran is respected around the world as one of the great spiritual teachers. He was Professor of English Literature at the University of Nagpur, India and an established writer, when he came to the United States on the Fulbright exchange program in 1959. As Founder and Director of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and the Nilgiri Press, he taught the classics of world mysticism and the practice of meditation from 1960 till his death in 1999.