Sri Venkateswara Namavali

SRI VENKATESWARA NAMAVALI

INTRODUCTION

Lord Venkateswara also known by various names as Srinivasa, Balaji, Venkatachalapati and Govinda is a divine form of Lord Vishnu. Lord Venkateswara is the main deity of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple situated in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Lakhs of devotees are visiting daily to the Tirumala Temple to have a glimpse of their dear god, and to get his blessings.

In Tirumala, TTD Devasthanams are conducting lot of social welfare schemes for the benefit of the devotees and to the poor people, like providing free food to the devotees, education to children, veda patasala, hospitals, go-samrakshana etc. The TTD is investing the money received from the devotees in Fixed Deposits and utilizing only the interest portion for performing social welfare schemes. Lot of poor students and poor people were got benefited by these schemes.

Every day lot of devotees are donating lakhs of rupees at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. According the famous legend once the sages gathered in one holy place and decided to perform rituals to the gods. The sages asked Bhrigu, to test the goodness among the gods. Bhrigu went to divine worlds and met Indra, Brahma and Shiva and found that they are not competent. Afterwards, bhrigu went to Vaikunta, the abode of Lord Vishnu. At that time, Vishnu didn’t attend him since he was in yoga nithra. Seeing his action, bhrigu got very angry and kicked him at his chest with his feet. Since Mata Lakshmi permanently resides in the heart of Lord Vishnu, she could not tolerate the actions of bhrigu maharishi and left vaikunta and went to the Kolapur city for performing penance. Lord Vishnu pacified Bhrigu maharishi and pressed the feet of Bhrigu maharishi gently through his lotus hands. Bhrigu got very much admired with the actions of Lord Vishnu, and asked him to apologise him for his anger with him and went to the holy place where all the other sages were gathered and informed them that Lord Vishnu is the competent person and the rituals can be dedicated to him.

Since goddess Lakshmi has left him, Lord Vishnu went to the earth for searching Goddess Lakshmi. Since, he was unable to find her, he settled down on Seshachalam hills inside an anthill. Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma incarnated as a cow and a calf respectively and were took care by a shepherd of Chola kingdom in the Seshachalam hills. The cow and calf, everyday used to give their milk in the anthill to reduce the thirst of Lord Vishnu. The Chola king has become suspicious. The next day the king went along with the shepherd and got angry with the divine animals and tried to attack the animals. But on behalf of the animals, Lord Vishnu accepted the attack and got wounded on his forehead. The king and the shepherd were very much worried about their cruel act and both of them were surrendered at the Lord’s lotus feet. Lord Srinivasa had given the king a boon that he would marry his daughter in future. After some time, Srinivasa went to the home of Mata Vakula Devi and took shelter in her home, who was the foster mother Yashoda of Lord Krishna.

In the next birth, the Chola king was taken birth as Akash Raj and his daughter is Padmavathi. Lord Srinivasa met Padmavati and after certain period of time both of them got married in presence of the divine sages, gods and the people in the earth.

It is believed that, during his marriage with Padmavathi, in order to meet the marriage expenses, Lord Vishnu took a large loan from Kubera, and still now through our donations like our hair and wealth he is repaying the debt to Lord Kubera. It is also believed, that Lord Srinivasa would reside at Tirumala till the end of this kaliyuga and he would bless his devotees.

Let us praise the great Lord Sri Venkateswara by reciting his 108 golden names, and let us be blessed.

1. om sri venkatesaya namah
2. om srinivasaya namah
3. om laksmipataye namah
4. om ananuyaya namah
5. om amrtamsane namah
6. om madhavaya namah
7. om krsnaya namah
8. om sriharaye namah
9. om nnanapanjaraya namah
10. om srivatsa vaksase namah
11. om jagadvandyaya namah
12. om govindaya namah
13. om sasvataya namah
14. om prabhave namah
15. om sesadrinilayaya namah
16. om devaya namah
17. om kesavaya namah
18. om madhusudanaya namah
19. om amrtaya namah
20. om visnave namah
21. om acyutaya namah
22. om padminipriyaya namah
23. om sarvesaya namah
24. om gopalaya namah
25. om purusottamaya namah
26. gopisvaraya namah
27. om paranjyotise namah
28. om vtekuntha pataye namah
29. om avyayaya namah
30. om sudhatanave namah
31. om yada vendraya namah
32. om nitya yauvanarupavate namah
33. om niranjanaya namah
34. om virabhasaya namah
35. om nitya trpttaya namah
36. om dharapataye namah
37. om surapataye namah
38. om nirmalaya namah
39. om devapujitaya namah
40. om caturbhujaya namah
41. om cakradharaya namah
42. om caturvedatmakaya namah
43. om tridhamne namah
44. om trigunasrayaya namah
45. om nirvikalpaya namah
46. om niskaḷankaya namah
47. om nirantakaya namah
48. om artalokabhayapradaya namah
49. om nirupradavaya namah
50. om nirgunaya namah
51. om gadadharaya namah
52. om sarnnapanaye namah
53. om nandakini namah
54. om sankhadarakaya namah
55. om anekamurtaye namah
56. om avyaktaya namah
57. om katihastaya namah
58. om varapradaya namah
59. om anekatmane namah
60. om dinabandhave namah
61. om jagadvyapine namah
62. om akasarajavaradaya namah
63. om yogihrtpadsamandiraya namah
64. om damodaraya namah
65. om jagatpalaya namah
66. om papaghnaya namah
67. om bhaktavatsalaya namah
68. om trivikramaya namah
69. om simsumaraya namah
70. om jatamakuta sobhitaya namah
71. om sankha madyolla sanmanju namah
72. om karundakaya namah
73. om nilamoghasyama tanave namah
74. om bilvapattrarcana priyaya namah
75. om jagatkartre namah
76. om jagatsaksine namah
77. om jagatpataye namah
78. om cintitardha pradayakaya namah
79. om jisnave namah
80. om dasarhaya namah
81. om dasarupavate namah
82. om devaki nandanaya namah
83. om sauraye namah
84. om hayarivaya namah
85. om janardhanaya namah
86. om kanyasranatarejyaya namah
87. om pitambaradharaya namah
88. om anaghaya namah
89. om vanamaline namah
90. om padmanabhaya namah
91. om mrgayasakta manasaya namah
92. om asvarudhaya namah
93. om khadgadharine namah
94. om dhanarjana samutsukaya namah
95. om ghanatarala sanmadhyakasturi namah
96. om saccitanandarupaya namah
97. om jaganmangaḷa dayakaya namah
98. om yannabhokre namah
99. om cinmayaya namah
100. om paramesvaraya namah
101. om paramardhapradayakaya namah
102. om santaya namah
103. om srimate namah
104. om dordanda vikramaya namah
105. om parabrahmane namah
106. om srivibhave namah
107. om jagadisvaraya namah
108. om Ma alamelu manga sahita venkatesvaraya namah

“OM”

WRITTEN BY

R.HARISHANKAR