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Preface<br />
thousand <strong>Names</strong>. So Çré Viñëusahasranäma means “A<br />
thousand spiritually beautiful <strong>Names</strong> <strong>of</strong> God.” Actually God is<br />
unlimited, and therefore He has an infinite number <strong>of</strong> <strong>Holy</strong><br />
<strong>Names</strong>. <strong>The</strong>se thousand <strong>Names</strong> are just the most prominent<br />
and beneficial <strong>of</strong> His <strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Names</strong>. <strong>The</strong>y are so powerful that<br />
anyone who simply hears or chants them regularly, with faith,<br />
becomes relieved <strong>of</strong> all material suffering.<br />
How is this possible? By the power <strong>of</strong> transcendental sound.<br />
Any terminology indicating God or the Supreme is not an<br />
ordinary sound vibration <strong>of</strong> this material world. Viñëu or God<br />
is the Supreme Absolute Truth. <strong>The</strong> unique quality <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Absolute is that everything connected to Him, such as His<br />
<strong>Names</strong>, forms, abode, pastimes, associates, and the narration <strong>of</strong><br />
His glories, is also on the same absolute platform.<br />
oà pürëam adaù pürëam idaà pürëät pürëam udacyate<br />
pürnäsya pürëam ädäya pürëam evävaçiñyate<br />
“May we invoke auspiciousness by <strong>of</strong>fering our respectful<br />
obeisances unto the Supreme Lord. <strong>The</strong> Personality <strong>of</strong><br />
Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is<br />
completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this<br />
phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes.<br />
Whatever is produced <strong>of</strong> the Complete Whole is also complete<br />
in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so<br />
many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the<br />
complete balance.” [Çré Éñopaniñad, Invocation]<br />
Since He is absolute, His <strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Names</strong> are also absolute.<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore the <strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Names</strong> <strong>of</strong> Viñëu or Kåñëa are identical in<br />
spiritual quality and potency with Kåñëa (God) Himself. Like<br />
Him, they are complete and perfect. Since Kåñëa and His <strong>Holy</strong><br />
<strong>Names</strong> are identical in properties and power, His <strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Names</strong><br />
are eternally pure and immune to all material contamination.<br />
More than that, they embody the purifying and enlightening<br />
power <strong>of</strong> Godhead in the form <strong>of</strong> transcendental sound. <strong>The</strong><br />
Lord is personally present in the transcendental sound <strong>of</strong> His<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> <strong>Names</strong>. <strong>The</strong> association <strong>of</strong> the Supreme Lord is<br />
indescribably blissful; it bestows spiritual opulence and<br />
causeless knowledge <strong>of</strong> the Absolute Truth. <strong>The</strong>refore we can<br />
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