How to start reciting Lalitha Sahasranama - The last Step( Step Nine)

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Step Nine: Listening to Lailtha Sahasranama is the first step

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The first mark of listening to Lalitha Sahasranama is lightness of

the body, health, steadiness, clearness of countenance and a

pleasant and calm mind and voice. Listening to Lalitha Sahasranama

increases your devotion and bhakti. True devotion has a wonderful

power.

 

Listening helps you to absorb the way this sahasranama is to be

recited. It also helps you to internalize the meaning of various

words in the sahasranama. It helps in realizing the nameless.

 

Where does this nameless reside in you?

 

The Narayana Sukta, which is the hymn on Lord Narayana, the answer

is found.

 

`………….adho nishtya vitastyante nabhyaamupari tishtati jwaalamalaa

kulaam bhaati vishwasyayatanam mahat'(7)…..

 

Meaning: Below the Adams apple, at a distance of a span, and above

the navel (i.e., the heart which is the relative seat of the

manifestation of pure consciousness in human beings), effulges the

Great Abode of the universe, as if adorned with garlands of flames.

 

When we start anything we want success and all obstacles need to be

cleared in our tradition we need to pay homage to Lord Ganesha who

clears away all obstacles to obtain Devi's Grace.

 

Lord Ganesha is the great Mahadeva, to be invoked before every act

and especially worshipped to when changes occur in our lives as we

move from the old established patterns into new ones. Lord Ganesha

is there to steady our minds and open the proper doors as we evolve

towards progress.

 

Worship of Lord Ganesha is immediate; one has to think of his form

to contact him. Close your eyes for a second, visualize his murthi

or form and a direct communication has immediately begun.

 

Lord Ganesha sits on the psychic lotus of the Muladhara Chakra. It

is the ganglia of nerves at the base of the spine of man, which

governs time, matter and memory. As the aspirant is lifted into

conscious awareness of the Muladhara Chakra, he encounters the holy

feet of Lord Ganesha. Worship of Lord Ganesha strengthens your

memory and brings knowledge within. He is ever there and you have

intimate access by simply holding him in your mind. Look into his

eyes. Carefully visualize the large head, his trunk, the full body

and each object that he holds. Train yourself to see him within your

mind with your eyes closed. This is the key.

 

Once this connection is firmly established, all of the currents of

the mind and body become harmonized; and if after strong connection

is made he should falter on the spiritual path, he has gained divine

protection.

 

It is her wish and will even to pray to her .She choses and bless

her Devotees. She is within you and guides you in all what you do.

Dont worry just carry on it is HER WISH AND WILL.

 

We can now start again from the first step. Constant repetition is

the key just as nature performs its cycle of day and night for many

million of years; we now go back to the Step One

 

When you are introduced to Lalitha Sahasranamam, the first day it

may be difficult, the second day easier and the third day you are to

recite reading Lalitha Sahasranamam.

 

Sooner you will be able to recite without the book to your

amazement.- referring it now and then.

 

Lalitha Sahasra Namam is singing her Praise through recital of 1000

names. We are not bartering or negotiating with God in Lalitha

Sahasra Namam.

" People who are in love with the Truth might worship God in

different ways and in different forms. The attraction of Truth does

not let them go, until the Truth of their own Heart is recognized,

and there is nothing left to let go. If we grasp any aspect of the

Truth of the Supreme even partially or imperfectly and hold on to it

with a focus and commitment, the Absolute Truth reveals it Self as

our own nature. Valmiki misunderstood the mantra Rama and kept

repeating Mara, Mara, Mara. This faulty repetition did not prevent

him from becoming a great

sage " .

 

 

………………Shri Ramana

Maharishi

The purpose of life is to realise God within you and that is what

Lalitha Sahasra Namam does.

 

R Ravi Sankar