Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 160: Shri Nis Cinta (OM nishchintAyai namaH)

In Namam 132 to 187, the Divine Mother’s Japarupam or Formlessness will be the described.

The Divine Mother is very calm having stillness of mind. She does not have any thoughts arising that can give Her any worry or anxiety in Her activities.

Cita is funeral pyre and it burns the corpse. Cinta is anxiety which burns the one who is living.

Sankaracarya says that “a boy is attached to sports; a youth is attached to young women and an old person is attached to anxiety. The Supreme Self or Brahman is neither attached to anything nor does it have any anxiety”.

 Anxiety in old age is like a funeral pyre, that the devotee under goes in the later life. He is anxious, thinking about the rebirth, when he is dead.

The devotee needs to start on spiritual path early and learn to become free from anxiety. The message that the Divine Mother is free of anxiety ought to be understood by the devotee. This Namam could be guiding force to the devotee.

When a soul reaches the higher level, worries increase due to ignorance. With worship of  the Divine Mother, the ignorance for the devotee disappears.

Without anxiety, the Divine Mother creates, stabilizes and controls this universe. The devotee is unduly worried about his materialistic needs; She eliminates those worries by providing the devotee’s needs. Thus She becomes the abode of Nis cinta.

Cinta can also mean thinking and memory. Every thought is called cinta. Thinking that I do not have something and I will lose what I now have can cause anxiety. The Divine Mother does not have these types of worries.

Cinta can also mean delusion. Nis Cinta is the one without delusion or maya.

C N Nachiappun           

Singapore, 02 July 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.