As I was getting acquainted to new people here, I mentioned about this to some of the likeminded people and we were about 4/5 of us chanting regularly every Friday morning. She readily agreed and soon armed with the CD and book, the 2 of us managed to get a hang of the mantras. In 1999 after about a year of moving to Singapore, I met one of the ladies in my building and since both of us were not working asked her whether we could chant LS every Friday at my place.
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This was a turning point for me and it became all the more important for me to learn the LS. And within 2/3 months of that letter my mum merged at the divine lotus feet of the Lord. Later after I was married and expecting my daughter, my mum wrote a letter to me which I have still preserved (20 years now) where she reiterated the importance of LS and told me to atleast hear the CD often if I couldn’t be bothered to chant.
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I had learnt hindi but not Sanskrit so just managed to ramble some mantras. She got a Sanskrit book for me and just to keep her happy I used to flip through the pages and could hardly pronounce the difficult Sanskrit words. It was when I was going to get married my mum told me the importance of chanting of LS and asked me to learn it. As a teenager I never showed any inclination towards learning or even being a part of the ladies session.
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During my younger days every Friday Lalita Sahasranama (LS) chanting would be held at my home in Mumbai and many ladies from our colony would attend the same.