Friday, July 27, 2012

Namavali

 Namavali means names of God. Any religion that came up in the places where the local language has the facility of using adjectives as nouns has tis tradition. Any part of language that glorifies God comes under the similar category of Namavali. Some religions formulate a particular method for it, while other religions prescribe other means, but the point of it is to since the Namavali are equal to the Highest Mantras.  I think here not so much rules but the main thing is sincere fidelity. In a some sense, when one is reciting the epithets of a particular devata in puja, one is also addressing them to oneself. The repetitioner and the name become one. The Lord’s Name is all-bliss, and when it is chanted, the mind merges in this bliss, it loses its individual identity: it becomes one with the bliss itself.

I did not try to do it specially to receive something but to as a result received such big pleasure and immersed in inexplicable joy. How sweet is God's Name! A finite, limited intellect surely cannot understand the nature of the infinite, of the limitless. And there is no limit to God's Name.

In this blog ( follow links):
12 Names of Ganesha 
108 Names of Vinayaka
108 Ganesha's Names in puja format - Vighneshvarashtottara Satanamavali
1018 Names of Vakratunda Mahaganapati
Sri Ganapati Sahasranama
Sri Ganesha Gakara Sahasranamavali:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
10000 Names of Sri Samba Sadashiva:
Part 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
108 Names of Lord Shiva
108 Names of Sri Bhairava
108 Names of Sri Mrityunjaya 
108 Names of HariHara
108 Names of Sri Dattaatreya
Natesha Sahasranama Stotram
96 names of Shiva Arunachala
Sri Kali Sahasranama and adapted version
100 Names of Sri Kali
1000 Names of Sri Vishnu in stotram
1000 Names of Sri Vishnu in namavali version
108 Names of Sri Rama
108 Names of Sri Krishna
Varaha Sahasranama Stotram
Sri Krishna Ashtottara Shatanama Stotram
Sri Durga Lakshmi Saraswati Ashtottara Shata Namavali
Sri Lakshmi Sahasranamavali
Sri Mahalakshmi Rahasya Namavali
Sri Ashtalakshmi Ashtottara Shatanaamaavali
Sri Durga Dakaradi Sahasranama Stotram
Sri Durga Dakara Dwathrimsa Nama
Sri Parvati Sahasranama Stotram
Sri Lalita Trishati Nama Stotra
1008 Names of Gayatri Devi
108 names of Shakti
108 names of Goddess Durga 
108 names of Goddess Varalakshmi
108 names of Goddess Saraswati    and namavali version
108 names of Goddess Chinnamasta 
Chinnamasta Sahasranama Stotram
108 names of Goddess Lalita
108 names of Goddess Annapoorna
1008 names of Goddess Parvati
108 names of Goddess Gauri 
108 names of Goddess Ganga
108 names of Goddess Varahi
12 names of Goddess Varahi
100 names of Goddess Bagalamukhi 
Bagalamukhi Shatanama Stotram
Gayatri Ashtottara Shatanaamaavali
108 names of Hanuman
1000 names of Hanuman 
108 names of Surya
108 names of Shani Dev
Sri Shani Sahasranama Stotra
Shanaishchara Sahasranamavali
108 names of Chandra
108 names of Rahu
108 names of Sri Narasimha
1008 names of Sri Narasimha
108 names of Nandikeshvara
108 names of Sri Kubera
108 names of Angaraka 
108 names of Sudarshana
64 Yoginis namavali

Captivates my soul and my heart
The beauty of the Name of God
Quenches my spiritual thirst
The Majesty of the Name of God.

If you seek intimacy with the Real,
Be one of them who sit together in His Name
Look! Intimacy with God is
In the intimacy with the Name of God.

Between the Name and the Named
When there is no difference
Look you! Only in the self disclosure of the Names lies
The perfection of the Name of God.

---Hazrat Muinuddin, translated by Irshad Alam

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