"Achyutha,Anantha,Govinda namocharana beshajath nasyanti sakala rohath ,Satyam satyam vadhamyaham"

Appeal by

Sridharan G.N	6:02 PM (13 minutes ago)

FAITH AND PRAYER  deserve to be considered as one of the weapons to fight the virus menace. It is  not without purpose that even the Westerners believe in the old dictum - 'many things are wrought by prayers'.

Gandhiji said that the tenets of Hindu religion and faith has universal application .Our ancient texts do prescribe prayers as a panacea for all human ailments.

For instance in Mahabharata - vide Dwadasa nama pancharam an appendix to Vishnu Sahasranamam - a sloka in the words of Bishma pitamah runs as follows:
"Achyutha,Anantha,Govinda namocharana beshajath nasyanti sakala rohath ,Satyam satyam vadhamyaham"

That is, he swears that uttering the various names of the Lord will cure a person  of  ALL his diseases.In another sloka it is said that even water from holy Ganga can be good enough a medicine (oushadam) if only we believe the Lord (sriman Narayana) as the doctor.(vaidya)

In this back ground let me come to the recent posts under reference. Shri Vishwapathi after analysing the situation from Astrological angle advocates sincere prayers to get over the situation.

 Shri Gopalakrishnan would like to dismiss it as without merit since what vishwapathi says cannot be scientifically sustained. I am one with SN on this dispute and strongly feel that in addition to face masks, social distancing ,HCQ etc we should add 'prayers ' to the list to get out of the menace threatening humanity.

Let us all pray that corona will disappear soon and bring all of us back to normalcy.

- GN Sridharan.