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Five, ten, sixteen and twenty-four Upacharas are generally offeredto deities during Pooja or Archana. However, sixty-four Upacharas are
prescribed during the Navavarana Pooja of Shri Lalita MahatripurasundariRajarajeshwari Paraabhattaarikaa in the Shrichakra. These sixty-fourUpacharas are detailed in Vamakeshwara Tantra and in the Parashurama
Kalpasutras. Though it is not possible to physically offer all thesesixty-four Upacharas to Shridevi, by mentioning these Upacharas and
offering the same at the lotus feet of Shridevi using one’s imagination,the merit of actually offering these Upacharas to Shridevi are
obtained. The truth of this statement is confirmed by Shri Bhaskararayain his Setubandha and also by Shri Rameshwara Suri in his
commentary on the Parashurama Kalpasutras.
Shri Lalita Chatuhshashtyupachara Samgraha is a hymn, which
beautifully summarizes these sixty-four Upacharas. This hymn, composedfrom a high state of consciousness, is the masterpiece of Brahmasri
K. P. Narayana Shastrigal, the late Asthana Vidwan of Mysore State andDakshinamnaya Shringeri Sharada Peetham and retired professor of
Advaita Vedanta, Chamarajendra Sanskrit College, Bangalore. A scholar parexcellence and a highly accomplished Upasaka of Shri Mahatripurasundariand Shri Chandramoulishwara, Shri Narayana Shastrigal was held in a very
high regard by the Shankaracharyas of the Amnaya mutts and by scholarsacross the sub-continent. Most of his disciples went on to become
Mahamahopadhyayas and scholars of great repute. He spent a greater partof his life in the holy city of Varanasi and was popularly referred to
as ’Kashivasi’ Narayana Shastrigal. He was instrumental in editing andpublishing the first ever copy of Skandadeva’s Rudra Bhashya. He accepted
Turiyashrama towards the end of his life. It is popularly rememberedto this day in Kashi that when the great man attained Siddhi, a BanaLinga had materialized on his body. It is indeed due to the limitless
compassion of Shridevi that I was fortunate to have as my Guru Brahmasri
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K. P. Shankara Shastrigal, younger brother of Shri Narayana Shastrigal,an equally brilliant scholar and an equally accomplished ShrividyaUpasaka. It is recorded that one afternoon, after performing Nirajana to
Shridevi, Narayana Shastrigal burst into a hymn and a disciple noted itdown. The then Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal of Shringeri read the hymn and
declared that it was indeed Shridevi who had spoken through Shastrigal.The following hymn, which is a composition of Brahmasri Narayana Shastrigal,
has been reproduced over the ages in various books like the ShrividyaRatnakara of Karapatri Swamin, Saubhagya Ratnakara Valli of Purnananda,Shrividya Saparya of Dattatreyanandanatha, by various Guhananda Mandali
books and many books dealing with Shrichakra Pooja and Devi Stotras inSanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Malayalam. One may
estimate the greatness of this hymn by simply considering the fact thatthis hymn was included in their Saparya Paddhatis by great men like
Chidanandanatha and Karapatri Swamin. It is unfortunate however thatnone of these publications have given any credit to the author of thissupremely beautiful hymn by at least mentioning his name.
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