Monday, July 6, 2020

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 176: Shri Nir Vikalpa (OM nirvikalpAyai namaH)


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

The Divine Mother does not have any false imagination. She is free from vikalpa.

Vikalpa is fake; something does not exist but shows up as being real. The Yoga sutra defines Vikalpa as a notion described only by words for which there exist no corresponding real object.

Kalpa can be meant to create something through imagination.

The following example will give an idea of vikalpa:

“Here comes the son of the barren woman, after a bath in waters of the mirage, wearing sky-flower in his hair and holding a bow made of rabbit-horns.” There are no barren women who can bear children; the sky exists but there are no sky flowers; rabbits do not have horns. Therefore, these are vikalpa statements.

Likes and dislikes are the vikalpa of mind. If the mind has vikalpa, even good work, would look bad. On the contrary, With nirvikalpa mind, worldly things would appear, what really they are.

 Vikalpa can be said as assumption; a non existing thing is assumed existing. Vikalpa is opposite of liking.The mind may indicate something as existing but in reality is not existing. Then the mind will start to look for non existing solution in such cases.

All such vikalpa ends at Nirvikalpa dhyana (a form of meditation). Anything created by mind is not real. The Divine Mother has unconditional and eternal knowledge. She is always at Nirvikalpa state. The Divine Mother is pervaded Sastras; no sastra can negate Her. Then can be nothing will happen against Her thinking.

She is Nirvikalpa.





C N Nachiappun           
Singapore, 18 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.

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