Acknowledgement

About three years back, an young rich educated lady, mother of two children, who
had been chanting Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram for sometime, approached me to explain her the word-by-word as well as contextual meaning of the stotra and whether it has any significance for the modern youth. When I started explaining her, I realised my own inadequacy. That set me thinking and reading materials for an explanation. My wife constantly prodded me in this direction, until she passed away in July 2006. This book-let is a result of these questions and proddings.

The Principal reference materials used are cited in the "Credits" at the end of this
book-let. They have been freely used and extensive quotations have been made from them.

It is virtually impossible to refer each one of them separately. In fact, the "Cut and paste" technology of the modern computers era has been liberally used. This book would not exist without these valuable reference materials. The attempts to link the science with the Scripture is my own and I must accept this as only an attempt and not any deterministic statement. While I apologise for any errors in
such interpretations, I request the readers to freely comment and suggest improvement.

As mentioned elsewhere in the text, this book-let is oriented towards young,
intelligent, searching minds, who are to-day totally devoted as Karma-yogis, to spend some time to find if there is any linkage between work and devotion. If this is achieved, the purpose of this book-let is served.

I am grateful to Sri Yogesh Padwal, who took great pains to get this so neatly typed,or better to say, " MS worded". My sons are responsible for getting this book-let in this final form, by their incisive and constructive comments, as I progressed in writing and by their morale boosting encouragement.

" Samasta Aparaadham Kshamasva, Kshamasva"