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My life changing moment

 It was perhaps the 24th of April. My father had done my forefather's Shraddh karma on the 4th of April on a Sunday. I had high hopes that finally I would be free of the misery that had befallen me over the months. Some of the leftover puja samagri was also unused. About midday, Guruji ( as we all fondly called him) called me on my mother' cell. I had begun to eagerly await and anticipate for his calls during those times. He was perhaps one of the only sole people who comforted me during those hellish times. I even used to get startled at sounds thinking it to be the ringtone. The call had come after a lot of days, perhaps for the first time in April. Nor had I visited or met him for a long time. As soon as I held the phone, he told me that he is doing a special pooja for me for 10 days ( or some other number) , and I would greatly benefit , and i should do meditation by chanting a particular mantra. As soon as he chanted the first syllable of the mantra, something changed with...

Shri suktam sadhana and Ma laxmi

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 She appeared today! It wasn't a grandiose darshan or a long lasting one, but it was nice. She appeared in my imagination during the 13th night of the japa. She was fully white clad and perhaps her complexion was white as well. She was  in a lake or so. Her pose was like the image below. And it felt nice.  Some changes that I might make- 1) Maybe do japa for a longer time. 2) Do some chanting without the seed syllables for a change. 3) Chant the whole of shri suktam before or after the sadhana. ( It perhaps is a potent hymn)                                                      (She was white and faced left) Edit 1 : Today on the night of the japa of the 15th mantra, I did yagya only 5 times of the individual mantra. And it was very very nice. So, next time , I would try to include daily yagya as well , but not the virtual one because it i...