Sri Gurubhyo Namaha! Sri Maatre Namaha!
With the grace and blessings of Guru Mandala and Sri Chandika Mahalakshmi, we completed the class of April 2020 of Devi Mahatmyam. It was supposed to be just a single Devi Mahatmyam Parayanam in early March to pray for global healing and well being. Seeing the outpour from people across the world to that event, after the Vasanta Navaratri parayanams that followed it, we decided to offer this class with the goal of getting ready for you to chant Devi Mahatmyam with ease by Sarada Navaratri 2020.
With ~1800 students learning from all over the world (and still registering), the reception to the class in the last 46 days has been extraordinary. There is a saying - “it takes a village to raise a child”. When we embarked on offering this class with the sole intention of providing the best learning experience for the incoming students, our BPA Global village raised up to the occasion so beautifully.
We hope you are enjoying the weekly discourses by Sri. Yegnarathnam Deekshidar on the meaning and significance of Devi Mahatmyam in simple, practical and effective terms and participated in the weekly classes by Smt. Mythili Seetharaman on the basics of Sanskrit language. As many of you shared with us, these two unique sessions make a big difference to our chanting.
We thank from the bottom of our hearts each and everyone of the Ashram disciples who worked hard the last couple of months, with the student support sessions and reviewing audio submitted by students for review, in a timely manner. Our heartfelt gratitude to all who worked diligently, taking care of logistics and technical details, helping in Sanskrit class, taking care of typos in our publications to translating discourses, publishing quizzes, sending reminders and the list goes on ...
As we come to the end of these sessions, there are few important announcements on what is ahead:
We will continue to have the weekly support sessions hosted by our disciples.
Quizzes will be published on a weekly basis.
Rest of the recitation tests will be published.
We have had many of the students reach out to get Mantropadesam. Our Ashram practice is to give the Mantra Deeksha only in person. But considering the current unprecedented situation we are in, we have decided to give the upadesam online on Guru Purnima this weekend, just to enable all the students to do the Devi Mahatmyam Parayanam without any shortcomings. Once things clear up and we are all able to travel, the disciples can meet in person and take the sparsha deeksha.
More information on that will be communicated to all those who registered for Devi Mahatmyam class and to all those who wrote to us seeking Mantropadesam.
Guru Purnima Online Parayanams:
We will have a live webcast of Upanishad Parayanams, Guru Paada Puja mantras and Devi Mahatmyam Madhyama Charitra Parayanam on Sunday July 05, 2020 at 6AM IST (Sat, July 04 5:30 PM PST / 8:30 PM EST).
The event will be webcast live through YouTube (shorturl.at/uDMSX) and through our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/bhaskaraprakasha)
Namaste,
Raghu & Akhila Ranganathan