{ "item_title" : "Siddhi Lakshmi", "item_author" : [" Hem Raj Sharma Jayalwal "], "item_description" : " SIDDHI LAKSHMI: THE GODDESS OF ATTAINMENT AND THE PATH BEYOND WANTPoverty, in the tradition that produced the Siddhi Lakshmi Stotram, was never only an economic condition. It was understood as a state of consciousness - a felt sense of lack that can grip a wealthy household as tightly as an empty one and that no amount of accumulation reliably dissolves on its own. Siddhi Lakshmi: The Goddess of Attainment and the Path Beyond Want takes this ancient hymn, embedded within the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa as a dialogue between Ishvara and Vishnu, and reads it not as a historical curiosity but as a working system - a structured technology for retraining the mind away from scarcity and toward genuine, settled sufficiency.The book follows the stotra's own architecture, chapter by chapter, treating each element of the hymn as a deliberate design choice rather than a devotional ornament. It opens with the hymn's origins and its insistence on invoking Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, before Lakshmi, the giver of fortune - an ordering that reframes poverty not as simple absence but as blockage, requiring removal rather than mere addition. It examines the nyasa, the ritual placement of sacred sound onto the practitioner's own hands, as an early and remarkably precise instance of what contemporary psychology calls embodied cognition. It offers a close reading of the seed mantras-Hreem, Kleem, Shreem, Tam-as compressed instructions tracing a complete psychological arc from vulnerability to radiance.At the book's centre is a sustained study of the hymn's meditation: a goddess of six arms, four faces, and three eyes, holding a trident, lotus, discus, and mace - read not as anatomical excess but as a symbolic vocabulary for simultaneous capacities: will, protection, generosity, and discernment held together rather than pursued in isolation. The twelve named forms that follow are traced as a developmental sequence rather than a static list, moving from fierce protection through generosity, beauty, and partnership, and culminating - deliberately, and against expectation - not in greater power but in Lalitā, playful ease, offered as the tradition's actual definition of a prosperous life.The book does not shy from the hymn's boldest claims - that faithful recitation brings wealth to the poor, children to the childless, and protection from fire, thieves, battlefields, and cremation grounds. Rather than dismissing these as pre-modern superstition or accepting them uncritically, it examines three honest ways of reading devotional promise and argues that the practical value of the practice does not depend on resolving which reading is correct. A chapter on the hymn's fear-places argues that poverty and mortal danger share a common root in fear rather than differ in kind - and that the hymn's closing promise, never suffers poverty, most defensibly names not a guarantee against hardship, but a mind no longer organised around lack.The book's final movement turns from the hymn itself to integration: bhakti reframed as a technology of attention, contemplative teaching on daridrya set directly alongside contemporary research on scarcity mindset and cognitive bandwidth, and a simplified daily practice - chanting, embodied placement, and reflection - adapted for a modern reader with no prior ritual training. It closes by arguing that a tradition built entirely around the removal of poverty arrives, by its own careful architecture, at something larger than wealth: a teaching in fortune held without fear.Written for readers of contemplative philosophy, comparative religion, and applied psychology alike, Siddhi Lakshmi treats a devotional hymn with the same rigour a serious reader would bring to any carefully built system - asking, of every verse, what it claims and what it does to the mind that practises it. ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/706/9798187065349_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.00", "online_price" : "14.00", "our_price" : "14.00", "club_price" : "14.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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