Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 672: Shri Brahmatmaikya svarupini (ōṃ brahmātmaikyasvarūpiṇyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother’s nature is the union of Brahman and Atman (Jivatman). 

She is in the form of the Supreme Brahman and Atman (soul) in unison with Lord Shiva. Jivatman is never different from the Supreme Brahman. The sea waves can never be foreign or opposite to the whole sea or ocean. Similarly, the Brahman and the Jivatman are even in unison. Brahman, depending on the Divine Mother, can take the jivatman form. The same non-moving Supreme state is Brahman, and active actionable form is the Divine Mother. The waves are moving on the surface of the ocean, yet the ocean below is stable without any visible movement. Non-moving Brahman is also taking the moving form through the Divine Mother. Shiva functions as Sadashiva or Ardhanareesvara. In Ardhanareesvara form, the Brahman, the Jivatman are present together, which means that the Brahman itself is showing itself as Jivatman. 

Small waves and large waves are all one form of the sea. Likewise, from grass to many billions of universal creatures living and non-living are all from Brahman, and they have the form of Brahman. The low maturity human without realizing above truth thinks that he is superior, and others are lower in status. To consider all Jivatmans as part of the Brahman is the ideal way to visualize the Brahman. 

Once the human realizes that Brahman and Jivatmans are one and the same, he becomes part of the Supreme Brahman. The Divine Mother is in such blessed rupam or form. With Her blessings, when annam (food) and wealth are enjoyed by the Jivatman realizing clearly that She is the annam and the Jivatman which accepts the annam are the same. Such learning eliminates ignorance. When the blockages are released, the jivatman becomes the fully glowing atman. 

There is a Hamsa Mantram with the meaning that is “I” and “I” is that. We need not recite this mantra. Our natural breathing becomes the repetition of this mantra. The word “Soham” is experienced when we breath in and let it out. Any mantra which is not recited but gives the result is called “Ajapam”; when we reverse this mantra, it is called Hamsa Mantram. 

So, as we have seen, Brahman is Shiva and the Divine Mother in unison, which is the Supreme state. Atman is Jiva or soul. Svarupa is “having the forms of Shiva” which is the name for Hamsa Mantram. The Divine Mother in the form of Hamsa Mantram causes the unison of the Jiva (soul) with Shiva, the Supreme.

The Divine Mother is the union of Brahman and Atman (Jivatman). 

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 27 November 2021/ Updated 07 September 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