Friday, March 13, 2020

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 50: Shri Anavadyangi (OM anavadyA ~ Ngyai namaH)


This simple namam means that the Divine Mother’s body is worthy of worship from everyone in this universe.

We have seen in earlier namam that the Divine Mother is the treasure house of beauty. Her beautiful figure is blemish less and faultless, She has perfect limbs. She is free from all bondage. She is filled with absolute knowledge. When she came out of Yoga fire, the Devargal looked at Her adorable beauty many times. They got immense happiness by doing so. Such beauty of Hers gave a lots of pleasure to see Her repeatedly.

Every limb of Her body is venerable and glorious. Venerable can be termed as admired or accorded a great deal of respect because of age or wisdom or character or high position of importance. The glorious can be defined as having worthy of or becoming famous or gaining admiration. The Divine Mother has all the qualities to have venerable and glorious limbs.

The perfect limbs referred here are the best feminine features according to Samudrika Sastra.

Further the limbs described above are corresponding to gross form of the Divine Mother. The gross body is to experience the pleasure and pain, kind of dual to attain liberation. Existence, birth, growth, transformation and decay are the things associated with the gross body. The Divine Mother is taking Her gross body type to show Her grace to Her devotees.

The limbs of the cosmic form of the Divine Mother are indicative of the Universal creation starting from a small insect (creature) to Brahma. An article made with mud will have mud in it. Likewise any creation made with supreme consciousness is filled with consciousness.

This namam “Anavadyangi” refers to the Supreme Consciousness in the Divine Mother. For us the devotees by worshipping Her, we can brighten our intellect and eliminate our ignorance.

Adi Sankara in Soundariya lahari 34 th verge, also talks about Her worthiness to be worshipped.

Anavadyangi can split into two parts for understanding its Sanskrit meaning. This namam Anavadyangi is coined in such a way to understand the positive and negative aspects.

Anavadya: is just opposite of Avadya, meaning adorable, blemish less.

Avadya:  Fit to be condemned, not to be praised, defective, faulty, blamable, dislike, unfit to be told, low, inferior, sin, disagreeable.


C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 14 March 2020.

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