In Namams 249 to 274, the Divine Mother’s Five functions and Her Five Isvara forms are described.
The Divine Mother is Supreme Bliss, with no miseries or sorrows in Her.
Once pure awareness is reached, there is no more sorrows. Pure awareness is a state of constant bliss. This Supreme state is the liberation (Moksa). The Divine Mother is verily the Moksa form.
All humans have the happiness. They usually indulge in Maya and neglect their happiness. They try to covet things belonging to others, even though they may not fully use such things. When they face difficulties in such acquisitions, they falsely suffer.
All sufferings are opposite to happiness. The humans usually encounter sufferings and happiness as their lives move along. Denied fulfillment desires are hindrance to happiness. As against this, only the universal pervasiveness of the Divine Mother can grant the humans such happiness.
The Sun’s rays may be blocked by the clouds, yet the cloud cannot reach the Sun. Sun’s brightness is independent of the clouds; they can only occasionally cover it. The difficulties the humans experience occasionally is like those clouds covering the Sun.
One has to keep seeking, until one visualizes the kindness and grace of the Divine Mother that provides the ultimate happiness of Moksa. The nonstop Supreme Bliss is only from the Divine Mother. No wordly happenings can stop that flows from the Divine Mother.
Taittiriya Upanisad (11.8) discussed the levels of such a bliss. For sake of analysis, the Upanishad gives the following sequence of bliss; bliss experienced by human beings; by human gandharva (a group of low ranking deities- manushya gandharvah); celestial gandharva; pitrdeva; kamadeva; Indra; Brahaspati; Prajapati and Brahma. The bliss felt by each increases hundred folds from one level to the next higher level in this sequence.
It shows that the bliss of one who resides in the Brahman is limitless. It is beyond any calculation; countless times higher than the happiness of the normal human being.
When the Divine Mother grants the liberation to a soul, it will reside in the Brahman. The Divine Mother is truly the embodiment of such Supreme Bliss.
“Brahman is the Supreme Bliss” It is said. The Divine Mother is eternally in happy with that Supreme Bliss.
She is Paramananda.
The Divine Mother as Kamala Lakshmi.
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 02 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.
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