Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 643: Shri Jnanada (ōṃ jJṇānadāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother gives Knowledge of the Self to devotees. 

She grants or gives the Jnana or Superior Knowledge to attain the Liberation. The Apara vidya is the knowledge about the universal things, while para vidya is the superior knowledge about the Brahman. The souls depending at various maturity stages are getting paravidya. The bees through their five senses live wonderful life. The Divine Mother has given the knowledge to mankind to understand about universal things. Knowing that universal life is with difficulties, the highly matured people live to understand the things beyond the universe. The Divine Mother grants yoga, bhakti and Janam routes to mankind for such understanding. She also gives the knowledge to understand the Brahman through Her blessings. People start from Apara vidya and reach para vidya stage. All these are continuous grace granted by the Divine Mother; She is celebrated as Jnanada. 

Knowledge is in two types; one is to help to reach Brahman to get Liberation, which is granted by the Divine Mother. Second is due to desires and ignorance to connect the souls to new bodies in samsara cycle. The Divine Mother tries to cut this need for Her devotees, yet ignorance opposite to jnana comes in humans’ lives. Aparicchedya, Vana Devi, is realizable in meditation. Once we understand Aparicchedya, we understand everything towards the Brahman. The Divine Mother grants such Superior Knowledge. 

Through the grace only of the Divine Mother, who is the power or shakti, can living beings attain Supreme Knowledge, which destroys the sorrow of the Samsara cycle (Skanda Purana). The Suta Gita also says that only through the grace of the Divine Mother, who is pleased by devotion, can one attain the final Liberation which is unlimited and is the form of knowledge, truth and bliss.

The Goddess the Divine Mother is the Superior Knowledge.

C N Nachiappun

Singapore, 29 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