Around 8300 people set World Record by chanting Guru Potri mantra more than 24 million times
More than 100 Sri Lankan Hindu devotees, along with their worldwide spiritual movement, set a World Record for the most number of people in a virtual spiritual text recital, with 8310 people chanting a mantra one crore or more times. The 24,200,000 chants were declared world record this week.
The mantra, a 108line Guru Potri
Hindu mantra, was recited for Lord Amman’s living avatar, Bangaru Adigalar, 27-times worldwide in a bid to set the record.
Albeit, the requirement for the record was ten million times, but the mass online prayers had recorded it well over that chanting for 24.2 million times.
The World Record Union (WRU), the authority to confirm this as a World Record, announced their confirmation on Thursday, the eve of the 83rd birthday of Bangaru Adigalar, an avatar of India’s Melmaruvathoor Lord Amman.
“Today (Thursday) is the red-letter day that marks the success of our bid for the World Record of chanting Guru Potri mantra more than one crore (ten million) times. Yes, our attempt has been officially
recognised as a World Record,” the organisers said.
“We are delighted to announce that our Bangaru Adigalar (the living avatar) has been awarded this World Record for spirituality,” they added. Here at home, the record was attempted from Kollupitiya, Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Kaluwanchikudy of Batticaloa and two centres each in Kilinochchi and Trincomalee.
Sri Lanka joined 14 other countries, including Australia, India and Malaysia and other countries western hemisphere too, taking part in this record-setting attempt from 10.00 a.m. to12 p.m. on Sunday.
Around 15 countries, amassing 8310 devotees from this movement, joined en
masse on Zoom. Those 15 countries had 163 centres with each centre ranging from 10 to 300 members.
Melmaruvathoor Aadhiparasakthi Siththar Mandram, the headquarters of this spiritual movement outside Chennai in South India, was the main centre for the record attempt, and Bangaru Adigalar himself was present throughout the occasion, seated in a blessing position. About 300 members were present at the head quarters on that day.
Towards the end of 27 rounds of chanting, a mild shower came down in Colombo, and it was welcomed as a blessing for the devotees.
To present this award, Christopher Craft, the WRU’s official records manager from the United States, visited the headquarters to hand over the certificate.