(comprehensive), The Thousand Holy Names of ... - Mandhata Global

Supreme Personality of Godhead, composed by the sage
Vyäsa.
Preface
It is my personal observation that chanting Çré
Viñëusahasranäma actually does provide the benefits indicated
above. In my practice and experience of over twenty years, this
potent mantra has helped me overcome debilitating physical
illness, mental agitation, political problems, betrayal, poverty
and many other material difficulties. Reciting and studying this
divine narration, composed entirely of the Holy Names of the
Lord, also contributes to knowledge of Lord Çré Kåñëa’s
opulence and transcendental qualities, guards against spiritual
falldown due to material difficulty, and provides a subtle kind
of mental satisfaction and confidence.
This does not indicate any incompleteness or insufficiency in
the hare kåñëa mahä-mantra, but it does underscore the
scientific truth, verifiable by experience, that each Vedic
mantra has a specific purpose and is best employed for that
result alone. For one who is completely self-realized and has
transcended all connection to material consciousness, the
elevated love of Godhead provided by chanting the hare kåñëa
mahä-mantra will certainly supply all his needs. But for those
of us still in the neophyte stage of karma-miçra bhakti who
maintain some dependence upon the material energy, the
benedictions obtained by chanting Çré Viñëusahasranäma are a
necessary and desirable help in building a strong foundation to
prepare for the higher stages of realization.
There is a precedent for chanting viñëu-mantras that
supplement the hare kåñëa mahä-mantra in the pastimes of
Lord Caitanya. When Lord Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu returned
from Gayä after Çré Éçvara Puré initiated him, He was
completely transformed into a God-intoxicated personality.
His students of grammar were very confused. Instead of
teaching grammar in the ordinary way, Lord Caitanya
explained that every Sanskrit word and letter indicates Kåñëa,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Caitanya Mahäprabhu’s
direct disciple Çréla Jéva Gosvämé later developed this form of
grammar in a book called Hari-nämämåta-vyäkaraëa, “The
Grammar of the Nectar and Name of Çré Hari.” This book is
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