Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 440: Shri Kula kundalaya (ōṃ kulakuṇḍālayāyai namaḥ)

In Namams 381 to 474, the Divine Mother’s Jnana Yoga worship methods are discussed in details. 

The Divine Mother resides or abides in Kulakunda. 

Kulakunda is the bindu at the centre of the Muladhara (lotus). The Divine Mother resides there. 

The Divine Mother has a temple in a place called Kulakundam. In human body, the soul or Kundalini starts from Muladhara and moves upward to reach the Sahasrara. Even if the hole is closed, the Kundalini, like a serpent is sleeping in Muladhara. Tantra and yoga means help the Kundalini move upwards. Soul has Muladhara as its place of residence; it is sleeping there like a serpent meditating on Lord Shiva and Shakti combined rupa. It is the devotee’s aim to make sure that meditation completes through Brahmachariya means. Due to good discipline the jada shakti turns into cit shakti. 

The Divine Mother has a residence in Kulakunda. Muladhara is Kulakunda akula cakra. That is also called Akula Sahasrara. The Divine Mother has that Kulakunda which is a temple or place of residence, where the Kundalini shakti rests by sleeping. Kudalini after going through Sahasrara and having the nectar, returns back to Muladhara to sleep like a serpent with three and half turns coiled up. 

The Kundalini sleeps in the bindu (Earlier Namam 99: Muladharaika nilaya with the meaning the Divine Mother or Kundalini’s principal abode is Muladhara.)

Adi Shankara describes the Divine Mother in Soundarya Lahari verse 10: “O Mother after bathing the universe and the nadis (nerves) of the worshipper in the ambrosia flowing from the middle of your feet, You return from the Sahasrara which is the form of radiant Moon’s disc, back to Your abode in the Muladhara and there You sleep in the pericarp with its minute hole in the form of the serpent in three and half turns.” 

The Divine Mother.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 09 April 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.