Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 539 Shri Sruti (ōṃ ōṃ śrutyai namaḥ)

The Goddess Divine Mother is the form of four Vedas. 

Sruti can be interpreted as what we hear through our ears. Four Vedas, Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharvana have mmense knowledge about the nature or universe or the Divine Mother. For many thousand years, these were heard and have been saved. Static level souls graduate to high level towards Brahman. Some turn into great knowledgeable people; these are the people who can listen to the four Vedas and can memorize what they heard. Thanks to this tradition, major sections of the four Vedas have been saved all through the generations. To be from

 lower ignorance level to graduating to great knowledgeable person is the grace of the Divine Mother. Further to hear the four Vedas (Sruti) and up keeping them is also the Divine Mother’s grace. To safe keep the learned things without  loss is also the Her grace. Such Vedic knowledge has been recorded as four Vedas. Despite all attempts by invaders to destroy all Vedas, Vedic materials or Sruti cannot be destroyed. In some form, they will be there eternally. The Divine Mother will live eternally in the form of Vedas. 

Sruti is also three forms of hearing, reciting, and thinking about Brahman, the Divine Mother is in all  three forms. Sruti is also what should be learned through hearing; it also represents Vedas. Sruti is what the sages received through their senses, the hearings during their meditations. The four Vedas are said to be the breath of Brahman. Vedas are embodiment of Knowledge. They are there always and considered same as the Brahman. The Divine Mother who Herself is Brahman-as- knowledge (Jnanabrahman) is also called Sruti. 

“Sruti is Mata (Mother),” is the well-known saying. It is said in music Sruti (pitch tone) is the mother and laya (time) is  the father.

                     The Vedas  as Sruti represent the Divine Mother.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 17 July 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 Sithbavandar