(Translation of letter from Shrimatam)
Parayana of Shri Narasimha Karunarasa Stotra for ensuring suraksha and yoga kshema of the followers of Sanatana Dharma
By the orders of the Mahasannidhanam Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Moolamnaya Sarvajna Peetadhipatis, it is notified that –
Our Sanatana Vaidika Hindu Dharma only prays “lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu”. However many events giving irreparable grief to those following this Sanatana Dharma that stems from the Vedas of the Rishis have recently occurred in areas like Kashmira, Bengal etc. Only by Divine Grace those thus suffering should get peace, the concerned locations of Akhanda Bharata should recover to normalcy, people should live with Dharma and happiness.
Here especially when suffering befalls those following dharma due to adharmic people, of the forms of Sarveshvara to protect the afflicted, Bhagavan of the form of Shri Narasimha is to be worshipped. That is why Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada used the adjectives “Prahlada-kheda-parihāra-parāvatāra”, “Bhaktānurakta-paripālana-pārijāta” etc. It is the Karuna-rasa of Lakshmi-sameta Narasimha, that this stuti including such phrases seeks, and so it is called Karunarasa- stuti. It seeks the extending of the kara (hand) for avalamba (support) and uplifting of the one fallen in difficulty, and so it is called Karavalamba-stotra.
With prayers to Bhagavan Lakshmi Narasimha to nourish and strengthen shraddha in Sanatana Dharma in Bharatiya people, and to make that shraddha meaningful by giving protection, on the evening of Narasimha Jayanti (Vaishakha Shukla Chaturdashi) of the current Vishvavasu year (2025 May 11, Bhanu-vasara) devotees, following achara, should do parayana of Lakshmi Narasimha Karuna Rasa (Karavalamba) Stotra at least three times. May the nation attain suraksha and saukhya thereby!
Yatra Sthanam – Kanchipuram
Shankarabda #2534 Vishvavasu year, Shri Shankara Jayanti, Bhrigu vasara (2025 May 02)
Note – Panakam (one part of jaggery dissolved into two and a half parts of water, with powders of dried ginger and elaichi added) is to be done naivedyam unto Bhagavan and distributed to devotees