Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 321: Shri Kamya (OM kAmyAyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is desired for seeking favours from Her which is much easier than other divinities; such favours from Her include seeking liberation from death and birth cycle. 

The souls like to achieve their desires to be fulfilled. The Divine Mother is causing all these desires to be fulfilled in each universal creature. For each child, its own mother provides all the supports needed for the child. When the child does not get what it wants, the child creates trouble for the mother. The child cannot do anything else. Similarly, each embodied soul prays to the Divine Mother to get their wishes fulfilled. Their desired deity, the Divine Mother fulfills their needs. So this Namam interpretation is that the Divine Mother is sought more easily than any other divinity. 

It is said that  when a Guru teaches his disciples a new mantra to be learnt, his immediate advice to his students is to recite this Shri Lalitha Shasranamam daily to get the kindness from the Divine Mother for their own well being. The yogins consider the Divine Mother as the most desired as they try to reach Her in Brahman. Other souls who got Her blessings also desire and try to reach Her. 

Kamya is the deity of the twelfth night in the Moon waning phase. The Kamya on twelfth dark lunar night is worshipped as the Divine Mother 

In all respects, the Divine Mother is most desired divinity to be worshipped for getting much easier blessings on liberation, happiness and auspiciousness.

 

 The Divine Mother 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 11 December 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