Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 4: Shri Sith Agni Kunda Sambotha (OM chidagnikuNDasambhUtAyai namaH)

The namam Shri Sith Agni Kunda Sambotha can mean that the Divine Mother rose from a Yaga Fire or from an immense Knowledge based fire to save her devotees. Sith Agni Kunda can be translated to the yaga fire capable of burning away all the negatives.

According to earlier Hindu events, Pandasuran, who represents the evil forces, had got involved with the girls created by Lord Vishnu. He forgot his regular prayers to the Almighty and started troubling the sages (Devargals). Such troubles reached a point that the sages cannot bear them anymore. They prayed to the Divine Mother to save them. They initiated a yagam (a fire wherein they sacrifice their best loved items) to show to the Divine Mother that they did not have any more desire for materialistic things. They even cut their own body parts and threw into the fire. The Divine Mother saw the sages’ unselfishness. Their ego had gone. The Divine Mother arose from this yaga fire, where the sages had offered themselves. This Yaga fire is called the Sith Agni Kunda in Sanskrit. This yaga fire is capable of burning away all negatives and hardships in the devotees. This yaga fire can be related to the Gnanam or the Almighty’s superior immense knowledge. The ego and selfishness are all burned away and the “I” within the devotee or the sage is gone as the Divine Mother arises from the yaga fire.

The other way of looking at this namam is to visualize the Divine Mother rose from immense knowledge based fire. In this universe most of the things are in solid form and through the prayer to the Divine Mother they are converted to selflessness, without ego stage, which can be termed as Sith strength. For example, the Kumari Devi, in Kannyakumari in Southern tip of India is demonstrating this prayer to Almighty to ultimately reach and merge with the Almighty. All souls in this universe will follow such a process of prayers to merge with the Almighty. They achieve no further births in this universe for them.

The essence of this namam is to show that for saving her devotes, the Divine Mother will rise and burn the devotees’ negatives such as ego, selfishness, aggression etc to purify them to be united with the Almighty.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 28 January 2020, Tuesday