Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 454: Shri Lolaksi kama rupini (ōṃ lōlākṣīkāmarūpipiṇyai namaḥ)

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

The Divine Mother is in the form of Love in women. 

Lolakshi means flitting or rolling eyes to bring out beauty in female. The eyes are the key aspect of showing a young girl’s desire (love) to outside world, which the girl gets through the Divine Mother’s grace. There are many Namams in Shri Lalitha Shasranamam to emphasize the beautiful and purposeful eyes of the Divine Mother; like Kamatchi (62), Meenakshi, Vislakshi, and other Namams. A list of Namams emphasizing the Divine Mother’s eyes in Tamil is shown in appendix. 

The Divine Mother is both beautiful and the embodiment of love or desire (kama rupini). Her beauty is so great that She engenders desire in beautiful women. She shines as love in women or She has the loveliest from among all the beautiful women. 

Kama rupini stands for Yogesvari, the deity of desire (Iccha shakti) according to Saubhagya bhaskara. In Varaha Puranam, eight powers and their deities are prescribed. They are the desire (Yogesvari), anger (Mahesvari), greed (Vaisnavi), passion (Brahman), bewilderment or delusion (Kalyani), envy (Indraja), calumny (Yamadandadhara) and scorn (Varahi). She is having eight attributes represented as deities as above described which are basically from Her. She is in the beautiful girl’s moving eyes due to their love desires. In these eight deities, Lolakshi or Yogesvari represents the desire for kamam. 

The Divine Mother has the moving eyes and in women’s love. When the girls reach their puberty or age, due to their desire, their eyes will move, making them fully not satisfied due to their love desires. All universal beings reaching the age go through this process. It is really impossible to hold the eyes without moving; it would be rare to have a human being without moving eyes due to love desires; that may be due to their earlier birth karma effects. All beings have love desires which are originally from the Divine Mother, who is in many Shakti forms; one of them is in the form of love in women. When we think of the Divine Mother’s forms, we cannot discard any of Her body parts. Universal beings display the desire for love at appropriate times. Such happenings are celebrated as the Divine Mother’s glories.

          The Divine Mother in beautiful embodiment form of Love in women

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 23 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.

4.       In a young girl, the key aspect of her expressing her desire (love) is her eyes, which she gets from the Divine mother's grace.

காமாட்சி போல் கண்களை குறிக்கும் பெயர்களை  சேகரித்து கீழே தந்துள்ளேன். ட்சி பதிலாக க்ஷி உபயோகப்படுத்தலாம்

 

·         மீனாட்சி.

·         விசாலாட்சி.

·         காமாட்சி

·         நீலாயதாட்சி.

·         பத்மாட்சி.

·         பத்ராட்சி.

·         கமலாட்சி.

·         கருணாட்சி.

·         அம்புஜாட்சி

·         கஞ்சதலாயதாட்சி.

·         தீர்க்காட்சி.(601).

·         ரக்தாட்சி

·         ரக்தாட்சி (432)

·         ம்ருகாட்சி(561)

·         சஹஸ்ராட்சி(283)

 

The numbers represent the Shri Lalitha Sahasranama names with numbers.