Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 541 Shri Anuttama (ōṃ anuttamāyai namaḥ)

The Goddess Divine Mother is the best in universal aspects; She is not excelled by anybody else. 

The Divine Mother is with no one equal to Her in this universe. She is everything and everybody in this universe and is not comparable to anybody. Even when we consider all other deities; She is the highest of all. She is happiness and higher than billions of beings in this universe. She is the original and Mahashakti. She is praised as Anuttama, as non-comparable. 

There is no one better than the Divine Mother in this universe. Ma refers to prosperity, knowledge and shakti. What one gets artificially through other’s help and materials is called nuttama. Since the Divine Mother has all these things originally within Her, She does not need any body to give anything to Her.  She is Anuttama. If the prosperity is a separate aspect, it can reach an individual or an individual can go to it. Here the prosperity, knowledge and Shakti are in Her own form. She need not get them from others, as She is anuttama. 

When we praise someone as being unequaled in intellectual or physical strength, we do not compare him to Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva. It is his shakti (strength) that we praise as unequalled. That shakti within that individual is the Divine Mother.

        The Divine Mother displaying some of Her Saktis.

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 19 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