Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 620: Shri Aneka koti brahmanda janani (ōṃ anēkakōṭibrahmāṇḍajananyai namaḥ )

The Goddess Divine Mother is the creator of many billions of universes.

 The Divine Mother creates uncountable large galaxies in this universe. The distance between the Sun and Earth is about 9 nine billion miles. Sun’s rays reach the earth in about 8,25 minutes; the Sun’s rays travel about one billion miles in one minute. Some stars are far away from Earth, and they send their rays, and those rays take many years of time to reach the Earth; this is to make a judgment on the kind of distance from the earth. Whatever is viewable by our eyes forms a very big galaxy. With so many big galaxies spread all over the universe, who can measure its actual size? 

In every galaxy, all beings and their souls have the Divine Mother as their creator; likewise for all static galaxies, She is the creator. So, She gets the name ‘Virat’; when the same the Divine Mother takes care of all the beings in the total universe, She gets the name ‘Svarat’; when She does both of above actions together, She is known as ‘Samrat’. So, the devotee who tries to understand the Divine Mother’s forms and glories has his soul settled within the Divine Mother. All these are created and ruled by the Divine Mother. So She s celebrated as” Aneka Koti Brahmanda Janani”. 

Brahmanda basically means Brahman-as-egg. Everything in this universe is egg-shaped; the Sun, Moon and atoms all have nearly spherical forms.  A collection of atoms may take different shapes, but at microcosmic level, all are egg-shaped. The ancient sages say there are many millions of worlds in this universe. Modern day science agrees to talk about many galaxies. The sages have spoken of these objects many years ago. These words are examples of the foresight that the rishis brought to the analytical study of the universe. The Divine Mother is Mother of countless many billions of such worlds in this universe. 

As we have seen She is also called Virat, Svarat and Samrat depending on the kind of creative and sustaining actions She takes. Vikaras are five gross elements, five sensory organs, five organs of action and the mind, making a total of sixteen modifications or shodahsa elements. Svarat is the power that takes pride as the collective subtle body (Linga Sarira) of the cosmos. Samrat is the combination of the above actions done by the Divine Mother.

The Divine Mother as Aneka Koti Brahmanda Janani.

 

C N Nachiappun

Singapore, 06 October 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