Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 365 Shri Svatmanandalavi bhuta brahmadyananda santati (OM svAtmAnandalavIbhUtabrahmAdyAnandasantatyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is Infinite Ocean of bliss; one drop of Her bliss is good for all the Brahma and other Devas for their total lineage (sciom). 

An ant went to sea thinking that it would drink all the sea water but only could drink a drop on the shore. The humans can understand a very small fraction of the ananda rupa of the Divine Mother. No one can measure that bliss.

We never know the deepness of the ocean; likewise the Divine Mother’s anandam is very large and is not known to us. The anandam released by Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra and Indra cannot even be compared to the superficial waves of the sea, while the Divine Mother’s anandam is like a deep ocean; which cannot be fully understood by humans. Shri Ramakrishna Brahmahamsar had explained this. 

She is in “satcit ananda” form. She is ever in Brahmanda form. The Divine Mother’s anandam is like much bigger than an ocean. The anandha levels of the humans, deva, Indra, Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra can be estimated while the Divine Mother’s anandham size cannot be established. Manusha gandravar anandam is 100 times bigger than the humans. Deva’s amandam is 100 time bigger tha Manusha gradravars. If we go up the ladder Brahma and others, the Divine Mother’s anandam will be infinite She is the ocean of pure and immeasurable Brahmanandam. 

The total bliss of everyone from human beings to Lord Brahma pales very much before the bliss of the Divine Mother. Malayala Poet Ezhuttacchan signs “what good is gaining even Indra’s state, it is so empty”. 

The Spiritual bliss, the solid immortal bliss of oneness with the Self is the highest; this makes the yogins persistent in searching for it, leaving the pleasures of the physical world. Even a single moment of that bliss makes life immortal and invaluable. The Divine Mother is the pure manifestation of that amritanandam or immortal bliss. 

   The Divine Mother 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 24 January 2021.

 

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 Chithbavandar