Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 673: Shri Brhati (ōṃ bṛhatyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is immense (very big in nature). 

Brhat is Brahman; the Divine Mother is none other than Brahman. 

She is very big; Brahman is microelement and is beyond that. To take the mind to Brahman, the devotee ought to use three types of yoga methods. To look and get surprised at the Himalaya Mountain extending to sky; to look at the ocean with limitless shorelines to be surprised. And at midnight looking at the sky where the universe is spreading in all directions and its countless stars, some of which are far away in many trillions of miles. 

Sun is about 90 million miles from the earth. The sun’s rays are reaching the earth in about eight minutes at an estimated speed of 10 million miles per minute. The light travelling at such speed in one full year, is called one light year in miles. The Divine Mother shows through this example how big She is, as universe, which can expand many more times. When the devotees understand the unimaginable largeness of the Divine Mother, they try to merge with such a wide universe and through that with the Divine Mother. This is like a mere a drop of water merging with the ocean and becoming the ocean. 

She is bigger than anything we can imagine. Brhati is also 36 syllables Chandas, a meter, in Sanskrit poetry. Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam is in Asuhtub chandus which has 32 syllables. The Divine Mother is in that form also. We can recall that tattvas are also thirty-six in number.

The Divine Mother is immense or very big.

            

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 28 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