In Namam 132 to 187, the Divine Mother’s Japarupam or
Formlessness will be the described.
The Divine Mother is not conditioned. She has no limitations in
this universe.
Upadhi is conditioning. Its effect is imposed by something
placed nearby. For example a clear crystal takes the colour of the material
kept near to it. Consciousness takes the role of duality, yielding or effecting
ignorance. This effect is considered to be upadhi.
Surface of a still lake, reflects inverted images of nearby
trees on its shore. Here, the surface of the motionless water is upadhi. Normal
human may understand the meaning of these inverted images. But, a child will be
confused by such inverted images of the trees.
In this universe most of us are like the child. It is the upathi
of water that is effecting this contradiction. Even for us, the immediate
experience of upside tree image in the lake, still exists. It will be there so
long as upadhi continues.
On same reasoning, the universal things look real due to the
conditioning of the body consciousness. It is an illusory reality for the
devotee. But, it is not ultimate reality within the Divine Mother.
Water has different identifications in different forms. As steam
it is almost colourless; as cloud, it’s colour changes to black and white; it
can become water and or snow ice. .
In deep sleep the humans do not have any conditioning. The
Divine Mother does not have any conditioning in Her. She is always Her own
eternal Supreme Self.
If something joins with another thing, it undergoes changes.
When the second thing is disassociated from the union of the two, this change
is called upadhi.
When a red rose flower is added to the Sphadika lingam, the
lingam looks red in colour. When this red flower is subsequently removed the
red colour on the lingam disappears. This is upadhi. This is due to ignorance
of the person seeing it.
The Divine Mother is not going through conditioning or divisions
or limitations of Her whole or part. She has spontaneous kindness and showers
blessings on Her devotees without any limitations. Similarly She removes the
worldly upadhi effects from Her devotees.
She is Nirupadhi Herself.
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 26 June 2020.
References:
1. The Thousand Names
of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San
Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon
2. Shri Lalitha Sahasranama
Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies,
Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.
3.
The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna
Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai,Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with
commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar.
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