Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 668: Shri Dvaita varjita (ōṃ dvaitavarjitāyai namaḥ

The Divine Mother is beyond duality and shuns duality. 

She does not allow duality within Her for any reason. The souls have taken different forms. Pralaya is a different state. One of the five elements, water, takes various forms, namely, sea water, river water, well water and tank water etc. The same water can become steam, cloud and mist etc. In frozen form it is ice, deeply frozen snow etc. Water in one form cannot be mentioned as other form, However all these forms are the forms of water. In searching for Brahman, similar understanding is needed. That is called Dvaita varjita. Likewise, there is nothing different to the Divine Mother, She is called Dvaita Varjita. 

Dvaita does not fit well with the Divine Mother’s forms. There is nothing other than Herself present anywhere in this universe. She destroys all these during pralaya. She recreates everything from Herself. There may be instances to realize that Her actions are different from Herself. What is seen cannot be fully true for the Divine Mother. She is not differentiated from other things. 

It is not good to interpret this Nama as “One who has discarded or relinquished duality,” because that would seem to imply that there was duality in Her to begin with and that She abandon it. She is one without a second according to Sruti. 

The notion of duality (two) arises from delusion. Every atom in this universe is the essence of Brahman, the Divine Mother herself. The meaning of Dvaita varjita is that the Divine Mother is not tainted by even a trace of sense of duality.

The Divine Mother is beyond duality.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 23 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