Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 166: Shri Nispapa (OM niShpApAyai namaH)

In Namam 132 to 187, the Divine Mother’s Japarupam or Formlessness will be the described.

The Divine Mother is without any sin or papa.

Papa or sin is a terrible thing. There are many varying explanations by different religious bodies on sin. Mental, verbal and physical are the three causes for major sinful actions.

The opposite of these actions is punya. It is good deeds that create punya. Bad deed causes sin. Improper thinking leads to bad speech resulting in bad deed.

The residual VAsana or impulses of previous birth would cause bad actions in present birth. Such bad actions would increase sins to a level called papa.

One’s good tasks and or actions due to his karma will increase his punya. Every bit of attachment added to his action will result in the papa and for the devotee, in present birth.

One example here is: The jail executor’s job is to hang the prisoners with hanging judgments. In his life time, the jail executor may hang 100 such prisoners. As long as he does his hanging job without any attachment, he is not causing any papa to himself, for doing his karma in this current birth. On the contrary, if he shows kindness or hatreds on the prisoners hanged, and then he causes papa or punya to himself, which is due to the attachment on his part.

The Divine Mother is always pure, knowing all the things and keeping Herself free from attachments. She does not incur any sin due to any bonds of Karma. She is only controlling the universe to keep it good. There is no attachment in Her except to Lord Siva.

Lord Krsna says “I have no attachment to the fruit of action”. The Divine Mother has no sins as the whole universe is well placed under Her. There is nothing to degrade Her actions to papa.

Gita (V.10) says “He who performs actions offering them to Brahman, abandoning attachments is not tainted by sin, as a lotus leaf by water”. This is said in reference to Karmayogam, The Divine Mother is Brahman Herself by unison with Lord Shiva. We cannot say or identify any sin in Her.

She is Nispapa Herself.

C N Nachiappun           

Singapore, 08 July 2020.

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.