In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed.
The Divine Mother is the enjoyer.
Bhogam is the way to use one’s sensory organs to enjoy. Bhogam is essentially sensory experience and enjoyment. All universal creatures of different maturity have such enjoyments. It is the Divine Mother’s grace to grant such enjoyments to all universal creatures. Bhoga is basically the short term enjoyment leading to sorrow in the long run. By indulging in Bhoga, the souls prolong their Samsara Sagara cycle. The one who is seeking the Brahman should consider the Divine Mother as yogini. It is said that sage Sri Ramakrishna Pramahamsa followed this approach to worship the Divine Mother.
The Divine Mother enjoys in all universal life forms, everything that is to be enjoyed. She consumes (bhuj) everything in the universe; She is bhogini in that sense.
Bhoga also means the hood of a serpent; it goes to mean, that
She has taken the serpent maiden form. Such female serpent is representing the Kundalini
the embodied souls in human bodies.
The Divine Mother
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 13 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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