Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 649: Shri Adrushya (ōṃ adṛśyāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is not and cannot be perceived by the sense organs. 

She is not reachable by our eyes. While creating the universe, She is keeping Herself in a non-created or hidden form. She never does the promotion of Her actions. When someone hits us, we feel the pain, but we cannot show the pain to others. Likewise, how to bring the things beyond our senses to our understanding? She is not visible to our senses. When we go beyond reasoning by senses, we can visualize the Divine Mother through our intellect. Using wisdom rather than the senses approach is the ideal way to reach the Divine Mother. She is only realizable through our wisdom. 

She is not perceivable. Drushya means to be able to see, which is understandable or visualizable. In Vedic terms, the word Drushya means knowledgeable.  Adurhsya means non-understandable or non-visualizable, which is beyond our senses. We have been created by Her and we cannot understand Her fully; we can see other things in this universe and yet we cannot understand or perceive the Divine Mother fully. We can see an elephant made of wood, and then we are missing the wood from which that elephant had been made. So, if this is the case with wood and wooden elephants, how can we perceive the Divine Mother who created us and this massive universe? 

Only the items which have three Guna based attributes are subject to our senses. The Divine Mother is beyond the three Gunas. As such She cannot be perceived in any way through the senses. Authoritative versions often refer to Her in this way: “Your form without qualities is not seen by the human eyes and the Shakti that is beyond these gunas is not easily reached by humans”.

The  Divine Mother cannot be perceived by our senses.

C N Nachiiappun

Singapore, 04 November 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