Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 517 Shri Ankusadi praharana (ōṃ aṅkuśādipraharaṇāyai namaḥ)

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

 

The Divine Mother as Sakini yogin in the Muladhara cakra in four -petaled lotus. She holds the goad, lotus, the mudra (a posture of the hand) of knowledge and a book in Her one of the arms as indicated in meditation verge. 

Ankusam is used to control the elephant; it is a symbol for human’s life. The humans ought to use their humbleness as their Ankusam. 

She is holding the lotus as her second weapon. Lotus is a superior flower considered equal to divinity. Lotus is a weapon as it destroys the stressed and disturbed mind. The soiled flower cannot be used; likewise, the humans’ mind if spoiled will not be useful for life. The mind must be kept a fresh is the message in having a lotus as a weapon by the Divine Mother. 

Her third weapon is a book to indicate that the human need to increase their knowledge. They ought not to slow down in their pursue for the knowledge. Book and knowledge help to eliminate the ignorance and they become weapons. 

Her fourth weapon is cinmudra, a posture of the hand. Thumb and next finger are joined together and other three fingers are separated out. Through this cinmudra posture, many things can be explained. Lord Dakshinamoorthy (a form of Lord Shiva) holds this cinmudra.  Thumb represents Brahma tattva and next finger represents life tattva. The other three fingers represent vengeance, maya and anger. The humans must separate themselves from those three malas to reach the Brahman. People who do meditation have to use the lessons from citmudra which leads to Brahman.

Hara is Lord Shiva; harara means to take away (our evils). This Namam has the meaning that the Divine Mother with Her four weapons is ready to use them to protect Her devotees and  to take away the devotee’s evils.

 

The Sakini Devi is the Divine Mother in Muladhara chakra.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 25 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.

The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Chithbavandar