In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed.
The Divine Mother is always or eternally whole without any decay or growth.
She has the bright fullness and greatness in Herself. When one analyses the nature, he can understand Her fullness. The Divine Mother is not time and place based; Universal events are time based. If the devotee uses his time fully in dharma ways, he can start to praise the Purna state in the Divine Mother. This fullness in the whole universe is present in micro level atoms also. All the universal things have this fullness in the form of the Divine Mother. She is both the cause and effect. Her universal actions are telling us that the Divine Mother is always in Her wholesome. If the devotee is thinking always about the Divine Mother, he gets the full wholeness in himself to praise and worship the wholesome the Divine Mother always.
In all her forms and everywhere in the universe, the Divine Mother is always full. If something is there in one place and missing in another place and also as different things at different places, it cannot be whole or purna. Whatever much, the Divine Mother gives out, She does not decay Herself or reduce from Her infinite holdings. This is the clear evidence that She is Purna.
The Sruti says, “Purnamadah purnamidam purnat purnamudacyate; purnasya purmanadaya purnamev avasishyate.” The meaning of this statement is, “The Whole is all That. The Whole is all This. The Whole was born of the Whole. Taking the Whole from the Whole. What remains is the Whole.” The Divine Mother infiniteness is reflected in above Sruti sayings.
The wholeness or the completeness of the divine power is evident to us in the nature. A child born of its mother is whole in itself; the seedling sprouting from the seed grows to the fullness contained in the seed and gives rise to countless new whole seeds; the calf grows to be a whole as the cow, yet it does not make the other less than the whole. This is the condition of things in this physical world. Parasakti or the Divine Mother is creating and maintaining the universe, what else can be said about Her wholeness? The cause is whole, it is Her; the universe, the effect born of the cause is also whole. Here the cause and effect are both same, according to the sages.
Lord Krishna in Gita says that the sattvic, rajasic and tamasic natures of the divine forces are reflected in creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe, which is happening at the Divine Mother’s instruction; all embodied souls form part of the wholeness to the universe and Her.
Purna is the deity of
the fifth, tenth and fifteenth days of lunar half month. The deity for the
fourteenth night of the bright half of lunar month is also Purna. All these deities
are the forms of the Divine Mother. Further Purna is also the name of a river
which again is another form of the Divine Mother.
The Divine Mother
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 12 November 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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