
Apart from being showered all types of wealth, it also is capable of making timid children intelligent. In the last stanzas, the benefits which would accrue on reading this prayer is mentioned. If this is not possible, it would be better to go to a temple where there is a sannidhi of Swami Hayagreevar along with Lakshmi, offer pranams and create a belief in your mind that you have learnt it from that God i.e. Introduction: We will visit the srotria village of ArasANipAlai, where SrI LakshmI nArAyaNa. This stotra should be received from a Guru who is able to empower the mantra as well as teach how it should be chanted. The proper method of reading it is to first read Narayana Hrudayam, then Lakshmi Hrudayam and then again Narayana Hrudayam.


For thousands of years this great prayer was kept as secret because of the instructions in the prayer itself instruct that it should not be taught indiscriminately. This great prayer has two distinct parts viz Narayana Hrudayam and Lakshmi Hrudayam and is found in the Atharva Rahasya (The secret Atharva).
