Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 474: Shri Yasasvini (ōṃ yaśasvinyai namaḥ)

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

The Divine Mother is unparalleled because of Her very many and glorious sports like activities. 

The Divine Mother is the owner of all the universal fames due to Her abilities, attributes, and motherly kindness to all universal beings. She is the only one to be praised in this earth at all the times. The one which is praiseworthy gets the fame. Nobody praises anything with its shortfalls. It is an accepted practice that humans ought to live to honourly gain fame for their way of life. The Divine Mother is pervading and spreading Her skills and shaktis all over the universe. 

In general, we enjoy looking at other forms of people and universal beings. If the figure or form such as the Divine Mother with all its colour, shape and attributes is seen, we will enjoy the famous form well. The one form with uniformly shaped, will attract us; the Divine Mother’s form is such a one to always attract us. 

The one who lives fulfill all the Divine Mother’s desires and schemes is praiseworthy. He should not go after the fame, but he must live an honest life. The fame will follow and come to him. He should not become a slave to the fame. The one under the Sun gets Sun’s rays on him; likewise, those who follow the Divine Mother will have all the fames of the Divine Mother. The devotee after so many births of sufferings, finally seeks the Divine Mother’s kindness by worshipping Her. That itself is the fame for him through the Divine Mother. 

The Divine Mother is famous always. She does show Her surprising actions, love, and kindness to universal beings. As a result, the kinds of fame may vary in level and form. Such changes never can absolve Her original fame due to Her eternal actions to provide for the universal beings. She has such undiminishing fame all the times. 

Her love, compassion and power of protection bring Her all the great fame. It is not the fame, She, is after; Her kindness to all universal beings is always there to help the souls mature towards the Brahman. 

She is Yasavini, unequalled and unparallel supremely famous Divine Mother.

       The Divine Mother as Yasasvini Devi

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 13 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.