Tattva

The shloka below is an extract from ‘Vishnu sahasranam’. Parvati, the divine consort of Lord Shiva asks him to tell an easy way for all the scholars to chant the 1000 names of Lord Vishnu.

Sri Rama Rama Ramethi  Rame Rame Manorame
Sahasranama Tathulyam Rama Nama Varaname

Description: Lord Shiva says that the name of Lord Rama is the sweetest of all the words and chanting this name would be equivalent to chanting the whole Vishnu Sahasranama as it is the base of all the names.

Lord Rama is the seventh incarnation of Vishnu (Vishnu is the Preserver and Maintainer of this Universe). Ramayan, which describes the story of Bhagwan (Lord) Ram, also includes teachings of Lord Rama as practical solutions to the problems of life. Festivals of Ram-Navami, Diwali, and Dussehra, are all related to the life of Lord Rama. In the entire Hindu spiritual literature, Bhagwan (Lord) Rama stands out as an outstanding and most glorious of all persons. No other person has been described with such perfection in all phases, and in all aspects of life, as Lord Rama has been.The famous sage Valmiki describes Lord Rama as an Ideal Of Perfection, as Maryada-Purushottam (the most perfect man who has ever walked the Earth). To symbolize properly, the emotional attachment of Hindus to the name Rama is intense.
So perfect is Lord Rama, and so perfect is his system of government, that the phrase Rama-Rajya is equated to the notion of an ideal government.

Reference: http://www.hvk.org/articles/0203/246.html

Sashidharan Komandur is a PhD Student in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Washington. You can reach him at sash.kom@gmail.com

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