Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 506 Shri Suladyaudha sampanna (ōṃ śūlādyāyudhasampannāyai namaḥ)

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

The Divine Mother as Kakini yogin is residing in the Svadhishtana chakra in six-petaled lotus. She has the trident, noose (rope), skull and abhaya mudra in Her four arms. 

We seek attachment with the beings that are in line with our thinking or with us and distance ourselves with the ones who cause harm to us. The Divine Mother likes attachment to Her devotees, but She, is also hard on her enemies with the weapons like trident. In earlier Namam 8 ‘Raga svarrupa pasadhya’ with the meaning that She is holding the noose(rope) or Pasa in one of Her hands, the weapon pasa is described. Pasa is the attachment which the soul has and by having the pasa in Her hands, the Divine Mother, is explaining the need to eliminate the attachments in humans. The other one is the abahaya mudra to eliminate the fear in Her devotees. 

The trident in her hand represents knowledge. There is knowledge and Brahma jnana where Lord Shiva is there with trident. The Divine Mother through Her unison with Lord Shiva and with the trident on Her arm, also gives the knowledge to Her devotees. 

Kakini Devi has the skull in another hand. Brahma is the creator of the universal beings under the Divine Mother’s commands. The yogins leave all the worldly attachments and consider themselves as dead, even though their physical body is present in this earth. They have only Bhakti to the Almighty; skull is the representation of this concept. The skull is reminding that worldly life is meaningless. Even the ugly and unliked skull as may be, is being worshipped here along with the Divine Mother, who explains the life tattvas with four weapons.

The Kakini  Devi in Svadhishtana chakra.

     

C N Nachiappun  

Singapore, 14 June 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.