Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 251: Shri Cinmayi (OM chinmayyai namaH)

In Namams 249 to 274, the Divine Mother’s  Five functions and Her Five Isvara forms are described. 

The Divine Mother is full of consciousness in Herself. 

Cit is a Sanskrit root word which means true awareness or consciousness. It also means to understand, to comprehend or absolute knowledge itself. 

The expression “satcitananda” (sat-chit-ananda) means “pure awareness with Brahma or total internal bliss”. 

If someone sits in a chair, he has the feeling or sense that he is sitting in the chair. The chair does not have any feeling. So She uses Her Cit or absolute knowledge; try to understand the chair and the person sitting in it. The Divine mother is in this Cit form.

The Divine mother has the absolute knowledge. She is in three levels namely, knower, knowing and the known object.

The Divine mother’s description in this Namam can be interpreted as formless awareness. The Divine Mother is Cinmayi.

                                        

             The Divine Mother  Bhuvaneshwari

C N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 01 October 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.