Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 443: Shri Tushti (ōṃ tuṣṭyai namaḥ)

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

The seven Namams from 442 describes the Divine Mother’s Character. 

The Divine Mother is ever contented. Tushti is contentment, fulfillment, and happiness

If a human has contentment, he is a blessed soul. One tries to acquire the universal things, his desire to own or acquire or greedy increases. One’s greedy opposite to his contentment. When his greedy increases, his confusion increases which becomes his head ache. His soul progresses up or down depending on his greedy. The Divine Mother who is ever contented is called Anantamayi or Happy Devi. Like Lord Ganapathy and Lord Muruga, many billions of the universal creatures are the Divine Mother’s sons and daughters. Their greedy separates them from the Divine Mother. Once a creature leaves its greedy, it reaches the Divine Mother’s presence. It gets the Divine Mother’s contentment. Such creatures if they have contentment, they become eligible or ready for the Divine Mother worship. 

Every universal being has three states, namely to exist, to shine and to be happy in that state. The Divine Mother abides in the state of happiness. 

Markandeya Purana praises the Divine Mother thus: much adoration to the Divine Mother who resides in the contentment in all beings. 

The Devi Bhagavata says,” That Mother is present in all beings in the form of understanding, fame, firmness, prosperity, power, faith, knowledge and memory.” 

Tushti is one of the sixteen Mothers (Shodasa matas). Here the Divine Mother is praised in that form. According to Padma Puruna, Tustih is the deity at Vastresvara tirtha temple. 

The contented Divine Mother.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 12 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.