Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 744: Shri Daur-bhagya toola vatoola (ōṃ daurbhāgyatūlavātūlāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is the whirlwind or storm that drives away the cotton wisps of misfortune.

She blows away the misfortune of her devotees like a whirlwind.

Happiness and misfortune in one’s life follow in cycles. When the soul progresses higher with its happiness, misfortunes follow such positive progressive happiness. Youth is followed by old age. Misfortunes are accumulated like cotton wisps in old age as problems for humans. To remove such misfortunes the Divine Mother’s blessing acts like a whirlwind. The cotton wisps caught in a whirlwind disappear. The Divine Mother’s blessing is such a whirlwind to clear all the sins of soul.

The cause of rebirth is previously accumulated sins. Since we suffer many misfortunes, we start realizing that our previous sins are very bad. As a result, we go through misfortune. That is like cotton wisps seen around us. Each cotton wisp is giving trouble and sorrow to us. Our sins cannot be shared with others. The Divine Mother’s kindness helps here. Kindness in the form of a whirlwind can make a mountain fly. The wisp of misfortune disappears due to the powerful forces of the Divine Mother’s kindness and blessings.

Vatoola means whirlwind, toola means cotton. For a whirlwind which can uproot larger trees, cotton wisps are not a problem at all. The Divine Mother’s compassion makes misfortunes like the lights of  cotton to blow  them away.

Vatooa can mean expiratory actions that remove sins; such actions start from the Divine Mother.

The Divine Mother’s words are repeated here: “Heartfelt prayers and acts of atonement done with devotion remove sorrows from one prarabdha”.

The Divine Mother is the storm that drives away

misfortunes of Her devotees.

 

C N Nachiapan

Singapore, 07 February 2022” Updated 26 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