Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 360: Shri Tanu madhya (OM tanumadhyAyai namaH)

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

The Divine Mother has slender - waist. 

The Divine Mother’s waist is like a lotus stem. Those with slender waist are action oriented. In Pandavas, Bheema was skillfully action oriented. Like wolf, his stomach was very slim and the waist was slender. He was also called Vrukodaram meaning that he had wolf like stomach. Also Lord Ganapathy has the name Lambodaran, with a large stomach; He cannot move around easily. The people with slim stomach can easily move around. 

Tanumadhya is the spouse of Phuleswar in Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India. Gayathri Chandas has twenty-four (24) syllables arranged in three frames of eight syllables each. Tanumadhya is a variation of Gayathri Chandas. It has four frames of six syllables each, making it to twenty-four syllables. 

It is feminine beauty to have the slender waist. The Divine Mother is the embodiment of beauty. All the beauty seen in this whole world is just a small fraction of Her beauty, which is immeasurable.

The Divine Mother is the nature of time, which is based on past, present and future. The past and future extend infinitely but the present is just a fleeting instant. The Divine Mother has a very slight middle, the present. The present is very short or slender that one is not sure when and where it will exists (Namam 847: Talodari which also means that the Divine Mother has slender waist).

 

   Goddess Abirami in Thirukadaiyur, Tamilnadu India. Great Abirami Bhatter did 100 verses Abirami Anthathi when he was saved by the Goddess for mistakenly saying new moon day as full moon day to the King. 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 19 January 2021.

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 Chithbavandar