Vishnu Sahasranamam (The Thousand Rays of the Lord)

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Kulapathi Ekkirala Krishnamacharya, known as Master E.K. among his followers, is the New-Age-Teacher, Healer and Yogi. He provided socio-economic basis for spiritual living to those, who followed him. He gave a synthetic understanding of the scriptures and their usefulness in daily life. Through his life style he proved that the scriptural way of living is possible even in the materialistic world.

In Master E.K.'s understanding there are no good and bad things or people. He promoted the doctrine of pure love.

He built a spiritual bridge between East and West among those who followed him. Those who lived in proximity to him, know him as a representative of the hierarchy, sent out to spread the Yoga of Synthesis which is age old.

His writings are many but the undercurrent of every topic drives the reader into synthesis. He is a true healer and trained many into the healing activity. Under his guidance number of children schools and healing centres are opened and operated to serve community.

Master E.K. is a multicut diamond. He is a poet, a Vedic scholar, a teacher, a healer, a friend, a guide and a social reformer.

The cult of chanting the The Thousand Names of the Lord is invented by the composers of those ancient Scriptures of India that came under the name of the Purana and Ithihasa. They carry the Stotra tradition found in the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads. They convey this tradition to the Mantra Sastra Literature. Mantra means a composition of sounds (incidentally forming a word or a set of words which may or may not convey any intellectual import of some consistency). This composition of sounds should be vocally uttered and mentally thought of. When the utterance and the process of thinking begin to merge into one another, then occurs a state of consciousness which is the doorway leading to many portals opening the path of Comprehension. The whole process is called meditation. Through this process the mental man begins to expand into the deeper levels in himself until he shines as 'The Pure Himself. The Pure Himself is nothing but what we call God, the real "I AM" in US.

"VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM" the Thousand Names of the Lord, is the quint essence of the Ancient Indian Thought.

Vishnu the light that permeates from the seeming nothingness to apparent something as creation is worshipped as the Lord of the past, the present and the future of the existence. The Vedic seers visualised the phenomenon called the creation sprouting from the subtlest to the grossest in layers and the broadest of such division is the three fold existence of Matter, Force and Consciouiness. These planes of existence are symbollically called as Vishnu, Vasudeva and Narayana meaning, all that appears in shape, colour, number etc., is Vishnu. All that exists as the Centre or as the indweller of a unit conciousness from atom to man is Vasudeva and the universal consciousness, which is the one background of the units of consciousness is Narayana.

Sometime in the spring of 1977 a few ardent followers of my brotherhood expressed the idea of a course of teaching classes about the wonderful Hymn "Vishnu Sahasranama". Many people had started chanting it in their daily morning pooja. One fine morning, before sunrise, my close follower, N.B.K.V. Prasad suddenly asked me how it would be if I began to dictate a lucid and elaborate explanation of Vishnu Sahasranama.

I felt the suggestion splendid since the attempt would leave a monumental work, which meant real service to The Lord in the form of his devotees. So, We started. Prasad was ready with his typewriter and papers. I began to dictate directly without a manuscript and he started typing. The tranquil hour between 4.30 and 5.30 a.m. of the following days led our programme and culminated in the shape of the present work. Neither Prasad nor myself did ever dream of programing such a thing. It came like a flash of lightening from above and took shape like this. Then it is our duty to place the work in the hands of devotees along with the meditation of the Lotus Feet of the Lord.

More wonderful it is that the same Prasad could find a way to bring this work to light through the press. Always it is the Lord who leads and it is the man who follows. We feel our work accomplished if the reader finds the comfort of having his heart opened towards the Lord while going through this passage. May the Lord bless Prasad, the printers who do their best in bringing out this volume and also all those who contribute to the completion of this work as well as those who read and enjoy.