Sri Gurubhyo Namaha.

Life is beautiful, but everyone faces challenges at some point. These challenges can be related to health, relationships, financial burdens, or other reasons. Would like to briefly share our challenges with our grown-up adult children. They are well educated and settled in their jobs. Over time they distanced themselves from us, reduced communication and then totally separated from us. We tried many ways to contact them through relatives, common friends, but were not successful. Tried various Pujas, visited many sacred temples in India and got many dosha nivarana japas performed, recommended by various astrologers and were unsuccessful. Even though we did not give up hope, we were down emotionally.

Someone suggested we seek guidance of Sri Siddeswarananda Bharathi Swamiji. We coordinated with the core group and had a chance to meet Swamiji in Nov. 2019 and discussed our situation. Mataji did prayojana homa and based on which Swami did mantra upadesam. Swami’s main message is that we must solve problems ourselves by doing the mantra sadhana. We started mantra japa and performed purascharana homa at Shangri-La ashram, Atlanta under the guidance of Sri Bhushan garu (Guru Sri Lalithananda Natha). On his advice, we continued to do purascharana homa at Shangri-la almost every month for the past 4 years or so whenever it was possible, while continuing japa at home. Guru Sri Lalithananda Natha patiently listened to us during every visit, encouraged us to have faith and continue the same path. Using his vision, he used to say that the boat is turning slowly implying that the situation is improving, but we could not see it or realize it. We are very happy to say that we were able to establish connections with our children last month. We felt as if we had never lost the connection. Such is the grace of Pooja Swamiji and his mantra.

There is an old saying in our language “Mantraani ki Chinthakaayalu Raaluthaaya”, which literally means – just by chanting mantra, are the tamarind fruits going to fall from the tree. This is used very casually by many. Having tried so many different things without results, we also started mantra japa/homa with a similar thought in our mind. We made a habit of listening to Swamiji’s Pravachanams daily and understood that the mantra sadhana will result in miracles. Sri Lalithananda Natha was there for us every time we were down and would encourage us and support us. He was a mentor to us. Would like to conclude by assuring myself that mantra sadhana is real and divine, and we had so many blissful experiences which would be tough to list out here. And yes, time to see the results depends on your poorva janma karma.

We encourage anyone to seek the guidance of Poojya Swamiji, Mata Ramyananda Bharathi or Guru Sri Lalithananda Natha and get their blessings, as we did, for finding solutions to their long-lasting problems.

-Anonymous