With the benign blessings of Bhagawatpāda Adi Shankarāchārya and our Guru Parampara, we will be learning Soundarya Lahari starting this Sunday at 7.30 PM IST (India time), 6AM PST / 9 AM EST.
Every week we will have five classes Sunday to Thursday at the same time. Classes will be for about 30 minutes. We will be learning the stotram in two ways. First we will learn how to chant the stotram correctly with proper pronunciation. Then we will learn in a musical way.
Soundarya Lahari has 100 verses and we will learn every set of 10 verses in one Rāgā. Thus we will have 10 set of Rāgās for chanting the entire Soundarya Lahari. We will use the same set of Rāgās we used for our Lalitha Sahasranama Stotram.
Smt. Priya Paramesh from California, an exponent in Carnatic Music, an ardent devotee of Devi and devoted disciple of Bhāskara Prakāsha Ashram, will be teaching us the stotram in musical way. She will be assisted by Sri Paramesh Gopi, Smt Mahinta Karthik and Sri Karthik Lakshmi Narayanan.
At the end of each verse we will give a brief meaning and discuss about its relevance to Srividya Upasana.
As our samarpanam to Adi Shankaracharya, let us do the Soundaryalahari sādhanā together for the next 10 weeks. If Devi wills, we will perform a global recitation of Soundarya Lahari on May 6th, 2022, on the Sankara Jayanthi day.
Further details about this class is on this YouTube recording below: