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What is Rudrabhishekam?

When someone asked Adi Shankaracharya what is that one thing that can give you liberation as well as all material pleasures and achievements, Shankaracharya replied, “Shri Rudram.”

Shri Rudram or Rudra Puja is a set of mantras that are done to invoke and pay obeisance to the Shiva tattva (Shiva energy/ principle) in the cosmos. These mantras will not only help one grow spiritually, but it will also help one achieve everything else that they desire in their material life. Since Vedic times, it has been known that Rudra Puja is the most powerful tool to bring peace in the environment.

Benefits of Attending Rudrabhishekam

Rudra puja is the most powerful tool to bring peace to the environment. It liberates us as well as provides material pleasures and achievements.

• Students can become more adept at the application of knowledge.
• Entrepreneurs become calmer with Rudra puja so that the power of intuition dawns on them.
• Women gain inner strength from the Rudra puja.
• Leaders develop unshakable depth to manage a team with the participation in Rudra puja.
• Youth get settled in their mind instead of being bothered by situations, hormonal changes, impulses, and passions that arise in them.

Importance of Rudram Sankalpa/Commitment

The literal meaning of sankalpa is commitment. Usually we take a commitment towards a cause but when we talk about the Rudram Sankalpa, in this we are offering the Sankalpa to the Rudra Puja. Sankalpa is that desire/commitment or that something that you want to happen with you, it is something that is your deepest intention. If you hold on to it, if you keep thinking about it then you will become feverish about it, get frustrated and that result might not happen. One thing that makes things happen is the faith that what you want will happen.

Offering a sankalpa works in the same way. As a symbol of your intention/desire, you take some rice and flowers in your hand and then you offer them to the divine power with the intention that you want this to happen. You offer that sankalpa to the divine with the faith that either this will happen or something better than this will happen with me. After doing this, you can feel relaxed and free from the feverishness, enjoying the confidence that either this or something better is going to happen. That faith gives the sankalpa the power to manifest.

**If you choose to participate in the Sankalpa, a seperate email will be sent with details specifically for you.