Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 515 Shri Panca vaktra (ōṃ pañcavaktrāyai namaḥ)

 

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

 

The Divine Mother as Sakini yogin is residing in the Muladhara chakra in four-petaled lotus.  She has five faces. 

The Divine Mother’s five faces represent the five sense organs such as eye, ear, mouth, nose, and skin. For the birds, animals, and humans these organs have reached the higher level. The universal beings depending upon their maturity are taking the various forms of the Divine Mother. To use five organs for divine needs is possible for the humans which will be a form of worship to the Divine Mother. 

Muladhara is the place for Prithvi tattva, in which the other four elements (Akasa, Vayu, Fire and Water) are present. This Muladhara chakra also represent the additional element Earth. Sakini Devi’s abode is in there. 

Four of the five faces are turned to four directions namely north, south, east, and west; the fifth face is looking

                                                                             

                   The Sakini Devi is the Divine Mother in Muladhara chakra.

 

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 23 June 2021.

 

Appendix: Lord Shiva has a Namam Panca vaktran with about the same meaning and effects of facing five directions and to represent five sensing organs in our body.

 

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.