Sri Gurubhyo Namah !
This page provides a collection of downloadable texts and self-learning multimedia resources for devotional works, Sanskrit slokas, stotrams, suktams, puja vidhanams commonly chanted at the temple. Many of these were initially created as learning materials for our learning programs.
Please send any suggestions, feedback and reports of errors to the Learning Coordinator at learning@srividya.org
Learning Track
Welcome to Sri Vidya Temple -An Introduction to Sri Vidya temple video
Lalitha Sahasranamam youtube playlist – An important hymn of thousand names of the goddess Lalita Devi which describes the goddess’ various attributes in the form of names
Designed for beginners and newcomers, this class provides an introduction and narration of “pancha upachara pooja”
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This class is intended to provide a brief introduction to the practice of Sri Vidya. It is designed for people who are newly initiated into Sri Vidya mantras and have questions about what to do next.
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This class provides an Introduction to the Srividya tradition of Mother worship that is followed by a Srividya upasaka.
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This class will introduce the Sanskrit Aksharamala (alphabet) to those new to the language. It is intended to encourage correct pronunciation of Sanskrit aksharas, which are fundamental to SriVidya mantras.
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This class provides an Introduction to Lalitopākhyāna (also Lalitāmāhātmya) which is a final part of the fourth-section of the Brahmanda Purana and is written as a dialogue between Hayagreeva (an incarnation of Vishnu) and Sage Agastya. “Lalitopakhyana” means “The Great Narrative of Lalitha”
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra
Introduction to the Sri Chakra and the location of the Khadgamala deities in the Sri Chakra
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra
Meditation involving mapping of the Sanskrit Aksharamala to the nine avaranas of the Sri Chakra
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra
Meditation involving mapping of the Mantras and sounds on to the petals of the six Chakras
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra
Introducing the basics of performing mudras commonly used in daily puja to a deity
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra
How to perform puja to a Bala Yantra
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Maha Ganapati Mantra
This class provides a learning session to enable Sri Vidya upasakas familiar with Shodashopachara Puja to perform yantra puja to one of the most important deities in the Sri Vidya tradition – Ganapathy.
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Maha Ganapati Mantra and Bala Mantra
Procedure of offering Tarpanam to Ganapati
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala Mantra/Panchadashi Mantra
Important meditational practices involving the chakras and the invocations of kalas
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Ganapati/Shyama/Panchadashi Mantra
Performing puja to Ganapati and Shyama yantras
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
A series of learning sessions diving into various aspects of Sri Chakra Puja
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
Learn to perform the Sri Chakra Puja
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
Learning session to enable volunteers to perform the Kalasa Puja at the temple
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
Learning session to enable volunteers to perform the Sannidhi Puja at the temple
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
A learning session on “Kamalatmika Mandala Homam” and the significance behind performing this Homam
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala/Panchadashi Mantra
This class provides a learning opportunity for everyone to learn the sacred ritual that invites the powers of nature into our bodies through the medium of touch or awareness
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Bala/Panchadashi Mantra
This course is in continuation to the Sri Chakra Puja learning session which had covered the basic Sri Chakra Puja
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
Shri Lalitha Trishati, a sacred stotra that beautifully recounts the 300 names of the Goddess Lalitha Devi
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
Performing puja to Shyama yantra
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Prerequisite: Initiation in Panchadashi Mantra
The Śrī Yajñaphala Stōtram is a simple process which may be practiced externally or internally
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Chanting Lessons (Youtube)
Chanting playlists on Devi
Chanting playlists on Shiva
Chanting playlists on other Deities and Vedas