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Who is Goddess Lalitha?
Devi Lalitha is the powerful form of Devi Shakti. She represents the Multiplicity of Existence and the personified Form of Prakriti, the eternal consort of Lord Sunderesan, a form of Lord Shiva.
Lalitha Devi is the Root of Desire Incarnate. She also qualifies as the Empress of Desire.
Origins of the Lalita Sahasranamam
The Lalitha Sahasranamam occurs in the Brahmanda Purana.
This description of Devi Lalitha occurs in a chapter of the Purana, during a discussion between Lord Hayagriva and Sage Agastya. Devi Lalitha represents the very source of creation. She is solely responsible for all the variety that we see around.
The Sahasranamam is typically a little more than a thousand descriptions of Devi Shakti. Reciting the Sahasranamam itself is enough and more powerful than performing any Tantra or Yantra Puja of Devi Shakti.
The 1000 names of the Goddess occur as descriptions of the Devi as Stotram or as Salutation Mantras of the Devi. By chanting the Lalitha Sahasranamam one can easily please Devi Shakti.
The Lalitha Sahsranamam Awakens Kundalini Shakti
The Lalitha Sahasranamam has got within itself the encoded power for invoking the Kundalini Shakti.
A person who takes upon himself the sadhana of simply reciting the Lalitha Sahasranamam every day at a fixed time for 41 days, naturally awakens his Kundalini Energy, which may be lying dormant at the base of his spine. The 1000 names of Goddess have great meaning hidden in them. The Manipuraka Chakra especially becomes powerful when we recite the Lalitha Sahasranamam.
Benefits of the Lalita Sahasranamam
The Shaktas especially consider the Lalitha Sahasranamam as the highest salutations to Power that can destroy all seen and unseen problems. Chanting Lalitha Sahasranamam on full moon day has the potential to destroy all the sources of disease within one’s body as well as dissolve Karmas that are Sanchita or waiting to fructify.
Many Yogis reciting the Sahasranamam have a long life and have almost reversed bodily aging. Chanting this Stotram helps you to ward off the ill effects caused because of planetary transition.
Married Women desirous of having children recite this Stotram and soon benefit with blessed children. Women should offer butter to Devi, as they consummate their regime of reciting the Stotram daily. Manya experienced Sadhakas see this practice offering untold benefits to women, especially to those women who suffer bodily related problems.
Lalitha Sahasranamam chanting daily will surely ward off all problems related to black magic and other spells that people cast on families out of envy. Each name of the Goddess mentioned in the Sahasranamam has a unique benefit.
Sometimes, people also undertake the chanting of a single name within the Stotram, in order to ward off a specific problem from their lives. Reading the 1000 names of Goddesses will help a sincere sadhaka to ward off all of one’s accumulated sins.
A sincere reader of the Stotram shall soon see that every enemy of his is slowly getting eliminated from his life. By reciting the Stotram for 6 months a person will ensure that he has become prosperous and remain abundant in name, fame and riches.
Observing fasts on every Friday is mandatory when one is undertaking a specific goal through the recitation of the Stotram.
Devi Laxmi will remain always with a person who devotes himself/herself to the reading or recitation of the Lalitha Sahasranamam. If you recite this Sahasranamam daily for a month or three weeks, Goddess Saraswati shall manifest in your life.
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Effects of Chanting the Lalita Sahasranamam over Long Periods
The Lalitha Sahasranamam will bless people who do its continuous daily recitation with exceptional intellect. Whichever homes or families who recite the Lalitha Sahasranamam together won’t see any shortage of Life’s necessities.
Abundance will become synonymous with that family. Lalitha Sahasranamam helps a person develop immense Faith to do or achieve anything which is positive for you in your life. This energy generates deep Faith, Confidence and Determination in your own self to work for Devi.
A reciter of the Sahasranamam automatically attains Service to Devi in Her Abode, far above this Universe. A beneficial method to develop this energy is by chanting Lalitha Sahasranamam knowing their meanings.
It will give the most helpful benefits if one chants the Devi’s names with their meanings in mind. He/she will express more and get closer to Devi. Regular chanting of Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam shall be a great penance. Chanting of Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam will provide a long and contended healthy life.
Through the regular chanting of Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam, one can definitely purify the environment. The Sahasranama shall invigorate and and awaken subtle energies in the person chanting the holy names of Goddess Lalitha. Sree Lalitha Devi will protect a person and will make him victorious in all his good deeds.
The Power of Words and Speeach is a Unique Blessing of the Lalita Sahasranamam
Regular chanting of Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam will make a person blessed with the power of spoken words. Whatever a person who chants the Lalitha Sahasranamam utters, shall start becoming true.
Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam is the form of prayer that anyone and everyone can chant at any time and every time. It does not matter if one could not complete it. Because each of the Devi’s name or Nama in itself is complete to realize the vision of Devi.
If one takes a yearlong penance of chanting the Lalitha Sahasranamam at a fixed place, time, reciting a fixed number of times every day and fasting on Friday, can give the direct vision of Devi Lalitha in Her most transcendental form. It is very beneficial if all members of the family unite, and chant Sree Lalitha Sahasranamam once in a day in the evening or whenever time permits.
A family that prays together stays together. It will bring about unity, peacefulness, and a clean mind to perform and by thus prosperity. It is also to be noted that by religiously chanting Sree Lalitha Sahasra Namavali, we are seeking the blessings of the universal mother.
Process of Chanting the Lalita Sahasranamam
We can chant the Lalitha Sahasranamam in two different ways. One in Stotram form and the other in mantra form. In Stotram form, all 1,000 names appear in small groups of a few names and recited in this way.
One can also offer Red coloured or yellow-coloured flowers as Arcana when one takes up the practice of chanting the Lalitha Sahasranamam. As we may contemplate Devi as masculine, feminine or formless, it renders her names in all the three genders. The slokas in Lalitha Sahasranamam appear in Anustup meters, which comprise 32 letters divided into 4 quarters of eight letters each.
