Prayer is the order of the month and what better way to prey to Lord Vishnu than chanting his nama..that is Vishnusahastranama. chanting this has been holy practice across India.One feels lot of joy just listening to M S Subbulakshmi's voice..God knows how many houses she must have reached just by chanting this stotra alone.

Vishnusahastranama is the treatise on dharma, in the sense , it is told by Bheeshma who is a seema vruksha of Dharma, to Udhishthira who is a Dharmaputra, in the presence of SriKrishna who himself is a Dharmadhyaksha and where...on the Dharmakshetra which is Kurukshetra. Each name is a mantra in itself. It said that whoever your Eshtadevata may be.. is also included in the nama.

It is said that Vishnusahastranama was very dear to Shirdi Saibaba also.
Once upon a time when baba was in Shirdi there was a sadhu who was staying with him, who had ananya bhakti towards Rama, and it was his daily routine to chant Vishnusahatranama in the morning..there was another rustic devotee of baba by the name Shama. One day when the sadhu was chanting ,baba sent him on an errand and in meantime gave sadhu's book on sahatranama to shama and said " this is a very powerful mantra and book i will tell you something Oh Shama ... once in my life i was in deep trouble , suffering, my heart in palpitation I thought I was going to die , at that time I took this book and kept it close to mu heart and felt immediate relief as if Allah had come.You take this and read from it. Start chanting Vishnusahatranama" as expected sadhu was very upset on hearing this. Baba calmed him ...there was a lesson for a sadhu also and Shama also...baba actually tricked them both..he told Shama.. one word one nama at a time...that was baba's leela...even today recitation of Vishnusahatranama is very common in baba temples... That is the greatness of this stotram....