Sri Gurubhyo Namaha, Sri Maatre Namaha!
Namaste.
We are very happy to share that with all your active participation, we successfully completed the second Akhanda Navaratri Mahotsavam, 10 days and 10 Nights, 242 hours of continuous prayer to Devi during the auspicious Vasanta Navaratri. BPA disciples across the globe and Devi Upasakas from other Mandalis, joined together and recited Devi Mahatmyam, the Glory of the Goddess, to celebrate the Devi during the Chaitra Navaratri also known as Vasanta Navaratri. We are overwhelmed by the response: close to 5000 parayanams during the Navaratri!
In March 2020, when the Corona Virus started afflicting the world, my wife Akhila and myself recited the Devi Mahatmyam Parayanam interspersing with powerful verses like the “Jayanti Mangala Kali” from Argala Stotram and from Narayani Stuti of Devi Mahatmyam. Immediately after, a new batch of teaching Devi Mahatmyam was commenced where more than 2000 disciples started learning. At the end of the classes in July 2020, more than 100 BPA teachers provided teaching assistance to the new students.
In August 2020, we took the sankalpam to perform Laksha Chandi Maha Yagna and all BPA devotees and devotees from other Srividya Gurumandalams started the Devi Mahatmyam Parayanam for Loka Kalyanam. Now, after about seven months, we are seeing the divine blessing of having vaccines which can protect us from the virus. Let us continue our prayers humbly with utmost faith towards the Laksha Chandi sankalpam of completely curing the world from this deadly virus.
A lot of this is not possible without the volunteers, be it Homam preparation and setup in Chennai Ashram, lead chanting for the Akhanda parayanam or the technical help with streaming seamlessly close to 242 hours of parayanams. Our heartfelt appreciation to ~150 disciples who were willing to volunteer any task and complete them. It always excites us when the next generation takes on to these activities and starts participating. Kudos to the kids who chanted the Lalitha Sahasranamam during the Navaratri.
With Gurunathar’s grace, all together 105 Chandi Homams were performed in New Delhi, Varanasi and during the 10 days of Vasanta Navaratri. Performing Chandi Homams continuously for 10 days in Chennai during Navaratri was extremely challenging due to intense heat and humidity and with no volunteer support from outside due to the current Covid situation in India, but at every step along the way, we could feel the Guru mandalam’s blessings protecting and motivating us to conduct the Chandi Homams every morning and doing Sri Chakra Navavarana Puja along with Lalitha Sahasranama Archana every evening at the Holy adhistanam of our Gurunathar. We clearly experienced the Bhavanopanishad vaakya ‘श्री गुरु: सर्व कारण भूता शक्ति:’
We have completed more than 64,500 parayanams and 465 Chandi homams so far - something that is just not possible without the blessings of the Guru Mandala, Sri Chandi Mahalakshmi and the sincere efforts of our Disciples and Devi Upasakas all over the world.
Brahmasri Yegnarathram Deekshidar gave the Anugraha Bhashanam on the concluding day, telling how it is nothing but the kataksham of Ambal and the Karunas of the Gurus, that is making all these chantings possible, and humbly requested all of us to continue the parayanams
Please write to us (contact-us@bhaskaraprakasha.org) if you need any help with logging the Parayanams you participated in, towards Laksha Chandi. Remember, all Parayanams done along with Homams so far can be logged in as parayanam count as well.
Those of you who contributed 108 parayanams or more, would have received an email about submitting a form to get the Chandi Homa Prasadam mailed to your address. We will start mailing out the Prasadams as soon as the situation gets better in India and things are restored to normalcy. As and when you complete the 108 parayanams, you can let us know by logging in your count
May our Guru and Devi continue to guide us!
We are happy to share some glimpses from Chandi Parayanams in Varanasi at the Sri Chakralingeswarar sannidhi (consecrated by Sri Bhaskararaya) in Sri Annapoorna Devi temple and at the banks of the Ganges and the Laksha Chandi Homams at Sri Kamakoteeswar temple in Varanasi and during all the 10 days of the auspicious Vasanta Navaratri below:
