This podcast episode details the origins and significance of the Sri Venkateswara Vrata Kalpam, a simple devotional practice designed for the Kali Yuga. The speaker recounts a divine vision where Lord Venkateswara instructed him to create an easily accessible ritual to alleviate suffering in the current age. This resulting work, which includes five chapters (the first from the deity and the others from four great sages), provides two methods for observance: a detailed traditional approach and a simpler option of merely reading the stories. The text highlights the wide reach and positive impact of this vrata, claiming it is performed globally and has brought about miraculous changes in countless lives, requiring no strict rules or fasting.