In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed.
The Divine Mother is highly excited by Varuni drink. She likes to drink Varuni, (the highly exciting or elating or exhilarating liquor)
If the liquor or spirit is used properly, it is medically useful to humans; if the said liquor Varuni had been offered as Prasadam to the Divine Mother, and later drank by devotees, it can lead the devotees to meditate longer periods for getting his universal things and start to enjoy the bliss from the Brahman.
There is vast difference between hard drinkers of liquor and the ones taking Varuni after offering as Prasadam to the Divine Mother. The regular hard drinkers lose their status in life by not properly doing their jobs right; whereas the one who takes the Varuni offered to the Divine Mother as Prasadam goes into deep meditation. There is nothing bad in it. The devotee reaching the Brahman to enjoy its bliss is revealed in this Namam. The Divine Mother is beyond all these to be eternally blissful.
Varuni is dear to Varuna (the rain God); it is the liquor produced from dates or grapes or Soma (an ambrosial drink). It can be interpreted as the bliss form Brahman also.
Varuni is also a Brahma mantra offered by Varuna to the Divine Mother.
Bhrigu valli, the son of Varuna had been given the exercise to find God. Bhrigu after some searching, came back and told his father it Annam or food is the God; he was told to go and seek correct answer. He came back saying that Prana or vital-air is the God as all the humans need it; he was told to search again, he came back saying this mind or thought represents God. Again he was told to search, and then he came back saying it is his speech and intelligence represents God. Again his father asked him to do more search; finally he understood that Brahman is God. This time he did not come back to tell his father as he had found the correct answer.
Varunimat + Avihvala: varuni is the daughter of Varuna. The serpent Adisesa married Varuni. Through the Divine Mother’s grace the Adisesa is holding the earth from being displaced. Soundarya Lahari verse two says that She, the Divine Mother is not fatigued similar to Adisesa in supporting the universe. An alternating interpretation by above splitting the Namam is that Varunimat means the one who belongs to the region of Varuna, one who resides in the ocean which can mean that “Ananta”; and Avihvala is the one who is not perturbed or worried. It leads to the meaning that the Divine Mother supports the whole universe effortlessly similar to the serpent Adisesa and governs the universe easily without any anxiety. The Vishnu Purana says that “Adisesa (Anatha) worshipped the Divine Mother with his great body”. Bhaskararaya explains that Ananta supports the universe without any fatigue, due to the Divine Mother’s grace.
One more interpretation of the Namam can be that the Divine Mother has conquered the Varuninadi and has become unperturbed. Yogasastra says that Varuninadi (nerve) is above, below and everywhere in our human body. Vayu is the deity for this nadi or nerve. The yogin who conquers Varuni nadi is called Varunimat. The Divine Mother makes sure that yogin is not fatigued.
It is clear that bliss from Brahman and or the Varuni drink do not make the Divine Mother fatigued in holding and governing the universe.
The Divine Mother is governing
the universe, smoothly.
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 23
December 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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