Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 665: Shri Ekakini (ōṃ ēkākinyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is the unique one. 

She is always all alone. The number of galaxies and universal creatures are innumerable; devas and asuras are all also in unaccountable numbers. All these beings are not against the Divine Mother as they all came from Her. She is the root cause to create them and to dissolve them during pralaya. Likewise, the ocean generates many millions of waves and yet it is stable at the bottom level. One of the five elements, water’s attribute is reflected in root of all elements in the Divine Mother. It is good devotion to view all these as the form of the Divine Mother. 

She is different from all other things in this universe; She had created this universe out of Her Self; Yet, She is all alone. She runs all the fourteen worlds (lokas) in this universe. She does not need any assistance from others. She is Ekakini.  Ekakini means all alone. 

She is One only. There is no second to the Divine Mother. She is in non-duality form. There is nothing of Her kind or different kind that is a second to the Divine Mother. In Devi Purana, She is praised thus, “Alone She consumes the worlds, alone She establishes them, alone She creates the universe, hence She is Ekakini.”.

The the Divine Mother is all alone.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 20 November 2021/updated 28 August 2024.

 

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