Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 480: Shri Payasanna Priya (ōṃ pāyasānnapriyāyai namaḥ)

In Namams 475 to 534 represents the Divine Mother’s Yogini forms. 

The Divine Mother is especially fond of sweet rice or sweet milk pudding. 

The rice, cooked in milk is milk pudding or payasam. Any sugary liquid cooked with rice also qualifies as payasam. This is good for up keeping the body strength. The Divine Mother is fond of such milk pudding. 

The Dakini Devi, representing the Divine Mother, likes payasam or sweet milk pudding. In sixteen-unit cow milk, adding one unit of sugar and later boiling the mixture produces a good food. The universal beings ought to have nutritious good food to maintain their body strength. That will give their extended life and good health. By being fond of nutritious milk payasam, the Divine Mother shows to devotees the need to have good food to keep up their body and to have an extended life.

    The Divine Mother as Dakini Devi armed in four hands.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 19 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.