Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 737: Shri Mukti rupini (ōṃ muktirūpiṇyai namaḥ)

From Nama 684 to 741 the glories of the Divine Mother were discussed.

The Divine Mother is in the form of Liberation or Bliss.

The Divine Mother is in the form of Mukti or liberation or bliss. With time and place constrains, She, takes the universal nature form. She is visible to Her devotee. Souls are under nature’s hold. The Divine Mother releases such holdings to liberate them. This is one of her Lasya (sport) plays.

A newborn child identifies its mother and lay happily in its mother’s hold. Later, it learns to move to get the item it wants. How the child overcomes its blockage in getting the item it wants is an indication of it seeking Mukti or Liberation. As the child grows, it faces many blockages to get its desired items. Likewise, how the souls face blockages, overcomes them is a sign of them seeking Liberation. Getting Liberation is the goal of all souls.

All souls on various maturity levels, due to their ignorance, create attachments to worldly things. When the ignorance is removed, the attachments also are removed for humans. Souls keep taking on a new body in samsara cycle due to ignorance. Once humans realize that the soul was part of the Para-Brahman or the Divine Mother, the soul gains strength to release itself to get Liberation. Since this is the scheme of the universe, the Divine Mother is praised and worshipped as ‘Mukti Rupini’.

Mukti is not separate new status for the soul. The souls have departed from the Para-Brahman. Their reaching back to Para-Brahman is the Liberation or salvation or attaining bliss. The Divine Mother is Para-Brahman. She is Mukti Rupini.

Mukti is bliss. Hence, ‘She is in the form of bliss’. In Saurasamhita (chapter 14), this state of salvation is described. ‘This state is obtained by the removal of ignorance or by reaching turiya’. Turiya is ultimate fourth state after waking, dreaming and deep sleep. It is a blissful experience beyond that. Many matured souls (for example late Kanchi Periyava, Ramana maharishi, and Ramakrishna had been living in this turiya state while in their life in this world before their physical body died.

The Divine Mother in the form of Liberation.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 31 January 2025; Updated 03 April 2025

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