Lalitha Sahasranama Namavali Koti Archana Sampoornam!!
May 2020
Sri Gurubhyo Namaha, Sri Maatre Namaha!
With the blessings of our Gurus Sri Vimarshananda Nathendra Saraswati Swamigal, Sri Gnanananda Teertha Swamigal, Sri Yegnarathnam Deekshitar and Sri Ramakrishna Deekshitar, we took the sankalpam for the Lalitha Sahasranama Namavali Koti (10 Million) Archana on the auspicious day of Guru Poornima in 2019. As you all know, each Lalitha Sahasranamam Archana consists of 1000 names of Goddess Lalitha Maha Tripura Sundari and when this one set of 1000 names is chanted 10,000 times we complete the Koti Archana.
Our Guru Sri Vimarshananda Swamiji always insisted on reciting Lalitha Sahasranama Stotram daily and toured all over India to teach devotees to chant Lalitha Sahasranamam for more than 50 years. To facilitate everyone to perform this Archana on a daily basis in their homes, we published the Lalitha Sahasranamam Namavali book in various languages. This book contained simple method for performing the Puja before starting the Archana and the concluding steps. We also published audio recording for performing the Puja.
The devotees and our disciples took this Koti Archana Sankalpam to their hearts. To facilitate this divine event and to encourage many devotees to participate, group chanting sessions and many Laksharchanas were conducted in various cities across the globe.
Numerous people joined us and now we are very humbled and delighted to inform you that with all of your overwhelming support, we completed more than 10 Million Archanas! Together, we also chanted the Bhuvaneswari Beejam 'Hreem' (for Protection) and Mahalakshmi Beejam 'Shreem' (for Prosperity) more than 10 Million times!
When the first thought came in our minds to offer a Koti Archana to Devi during Spring 2019, we were a bit anxious if this will be achievable. We thought even if it takes a couple of years to complete, let’s surrender to the Guru's feet and make a start. And rest was taken care by Lalitha Mahatripurasundari Herself!
People across the world started doing the archana in their homes individually or as a group and logged in their counts and slowly the numbers started rising. And today we completed 10673 archanas, 673 more than what we needed to complete our Sankalpam. Going forward, we will not live telecast Archana through Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook. We request all the devotees who took this maha sankalpam to continue doing the archana at their convenient time using our publications and log the counts using this link http://bit.ly/KotiArchana
Only due to the Apaara Karuna of Devi and Anugraha of Gurumandala, this enormous task has been completed in 10 months. We offer every Archana to their lotus feet!
Thank you all for your unconditional support and enthusiasm for all these events from the bottom of our hearts. It motivates us to do even more!
Namaste,
Raghu & Akhila Ranganathan
Bhaskara Prakasha Ashram
www.bhaskaraprakasha.org
Sharing some of the pictures taken during Lalitha Sahasranama Archanas from Bay Area, Chicago, Toronto, New Jersey, Dayton and Abu Dhabi.
