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Shree Rannchandika Prapatti

'Shree Rannchandika Prapatti'. Although fully spiritual in itself, this will make of every man and every woman, a valiant soldier, a valiant human being and also valiant spiritually.

The women would be observing ‘Shreemangalchandika Prapatti’ and men would be observing ‘Shree Rannachandika Prapatti’. The ‘Rann’ is the battlefield and both kinds of Prapattis make out of men and women alike, successful and capable soldiers, soldiers at the worldly plane for one, soldiers at the spiritual plane and there is this third thing that you will know in due course.

The word ‘Prapatti’ simply means ‘surrender that relieves of disaster or calamity'. There are five aspects to both the Prapattis, be it the Shreemanagalchandika Prapatti or the Shreerannachandika Prapatti.

1) The first aspect is the Shri Adimata Chandika Mahishasurmardini. She is the Mother of the Parmatma and therefore the Paramatma is forever in a state of surrender unto Her and so it follows that we too must be in surrender unto Her.

2) The second aspect and principle is to harbour and also repeatedly express the unshakable belief, anchored firmly in the heart that Goddess Chandika Herself and through Her dear Son (Parmatma), will definitely protect me. Not only should you hold on to the belief but root it firmly in your heart and express overtly that Goddess Chandika and Her Son, Trivikram will protect us and take care of us. Holding this belief in our heart and we should speak it out in so many words.

3) The third one is accepting the Son of the Chandika (Lord Parmatma) with love and faith and as our only refuge, whom we call by different names Mahavishnu, Sai, Ram, Krishna or the Paramshiva; willingly choosing to live in this refuge and shelter, recalling Him to the mind with love, observing His instructions at all times and at all costs, having unconditional, singular and whole-hearted faith that He and He alone is my support my one and only support in life. This is one of the important aspects of the Prapatti.

4) The fourth principle is praying that the Chandika hold us close in Her arms and hand us over in the charge of the Lord Parmatma. Praying to Her with love to say, ‘O Mother Chandika, hold me in Your arms, hold me close and hand me over to the Parmatma’.

5) The fifth aspect is to offer yourself in loving surrender to the Chandika so that you keep enhancing and intensifying your Bhakti and so that with Her grace you attain success and fulfillment both at the worldly and at the spiritual levels. Living the sentiment expressed in the words ‘You and You alone are my support, my one and only support’, ‘I offer myself in unconditional, whole-hearted and singularly focused faith, I turn to you with love, please accept me’. ‘Complete, total honesty’, is actually surrendering unto Her.

Following is the clarification to some of the doubts that have been raised by few fellow Shraddhavans:


1) This Shree Ranchandika Prapatti should be performed only by gents on any one of the Mondays of the month of Shravan. (It is not compulsory to perform the Prapatti on all Mondays of the month though it would also be fine to perform the Prapatti on all the Mondays as well. The Prapatti should be compulsorily performed only once on all the Mondays).

2) Shraddhavan dress code is compulsory while performing Shree Ranchandika Prapatti.

3) It would be fine to burn incense (Dhoopshikha) while performing Shree Ranchandika Prapatti.

4) Shraddhavans may or may not use mat (seating) while performing Shree Ranchandika Prapatti.

5) The Prasad (holy offering) of Curd-sugar and bananas can be also be kept in front of the photoframe from the very start of Prapatti.

6) For performing Prapatti photo of Trivikram of any size will suffice the purpose.

7) It is not necessary to wash/ drain the hair during the bath that has to be taken before performing Prapatti.

8) Shraddhavans of one single family can do the Prapatti by using a single photoframe of Shree Trivikram available at their homes. But they should not be sitting together rather should sit separated from each other keeping some distance between them. The Prasad that everyone offers has to be separate.

9) If any Shraddhavan is unable to sit on the floor to perform Prapatti because of physical problems then he should feel free to sit on table / chair.

10) For the Prapatti, Shree Adimata Chandika Mahishasurmardini’s photoframe can also be kept alongside photoframe of Shree Trivikram.

11) Incase the photoframe of Trivikram which is being used for performing Prapatti is large in size then a smaller photoframe may be used for bearing on head.

12) After the Prapatti is done it would be fine for the Shraddhavans to perform Aarti of Shree Mahishsurmardini.


(Note: The Ram Rajya discourse booklet by Param Poojya Shree Aniruddha Bapu contains detailed information about Shree Ranchandika Prapatti. The details can be found from Page No. 41 to Page No. 50. You can also refer the image above by using iits menu options to understand the procedure to be implemented while performing this Prapatti in details).

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