Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 470: Shri Vayo-avastha Vivarjita (ōṃ vayō'vasthāvivarjitāyai namaḥ)

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

The Divine Mother is exempt from aging changes due to time. Times is under Her control. Avastha means status; vivarjitha means to discord or to drop or to leave something. 

The Divine Mother is beyond aging issues faced by the universal beings. Anything that is born, grows to reach a peak and starts to depreciate or decline and disappears through the death.  Those who have a body face the younger age, adulthood, elderliness, and death. The Divine Mother has a gross form yet, She, does not face all such phases and death. She has rejected all such changes on Herself and has elected to be always with a teenager’s body. We refer to earlier Namam 391: Nitya sodasika rupa with the meaning that the Divine Mother is in the form of sixteen daily deities and is always at sixteen years of age, who is worshipped using the sodasi (sixteen-syllabled) mantra. 

She is representing the total universal beings which are going through birth, growth, aging and death process. The universal beings go through sufferings. But the Divine Mother stays without such sufferings. Sea waves are changing but the total sea is stable. The Divine Mother ‘s nature is such a state that She is exempt from aging due to time factors. 

She is eternally there without disappearing, full self and does not face decreasing or depreciating as ever.

The Divine Mother as Vayo-avastha Vivarjita

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 09 May 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.