Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 815: Shri Anitya trupta (ōṃ anityatṛptāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is the source of all universes. However, all Her creations are perishable and may be withdrawn into Her any moment. She is ever satisfied with all Her perishable creations.

She is happy with perishable offerings by Her devotees. There is no basic difference in human’s feelings or mind; with wooden blocks, we cannot satisfy a razing fire. Likewise, human’s desires or Kama needs cannot satisfy his mindset. When he satisfies one desire, many other desires come to his mind. The human mind may hold desires for perishable things and new needs will lead to new desires. If one uses his desired items for the Divine Mother’s worship, his new and excessive desires will get reduced.

Humans are fond of and have desires to consume various dishes, which go through their system and turn into human waste. When such food is offered first to the Divine Mother, it becomes purified. Likewise, the human with whatever perishable items is available to him, should offer to the Divine Mother to reduce desires for such perishable items. He will get more happiness in this process.

Humans desire all universal things, all perishables. They will undergo suffering for getting them. When they offer such perishable items to the Divine Mother, their happiness increases.

We know the Divine Mother is always fully satisfied with devotees’ offerings; we have seen in earlier Nama 566 “Nitya trupta” with the meaning that She is eternally contented. Here we get confirmation that She gets satisfied even with perishable items offerings. If we say that the Divine Mother is satisfied by only worship, we can say that She is Nitya trpta. If we say that She is not satisfied by these of the forms of worships, we can call Her as Anitya trpta. She is always satisfied by the devotees’ pure devotional worship and any form of offering. This is implied here.

The Divine Mother is pleased by our pujas and sacrifices using perishable things. There is a well-known verse in Gita, lX.26L “Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, flower, fruit or water, that offering by the pure minded, made with love, I accept. That is why a leaf, or a flower or water becomes dear to the Divine Mother.

Devotion is the most important ingredient in worship. Rituals without devotion do not please Her.

This Nama may be interpreted as aniti + atrpta. Aniti means Jiva or soul, (literally prana or vital breath) and atrpta is “one who is not satisfied.: She is not satisfied just by living alone, according to Bhaskaracarya. The Kata Upanishad, I.ii.25, describes Brahman thus: “For whom Brahmanas and Kshatriyas, even death itself, is a condiment, how can one know that, Atman!”. The Divine Mother is still devouring; surrendering the vital breath alone is not enough to satisfy Her, How can one without the proper inner transformation, know the Supreme in which all distinctions of class and creed vanish and in which even death is swallowed up?

  The Divine Mother is satisfied even by our imperishable offerings. 

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 18 April 2022; updated 06 July 2025.

 

References:

1.   The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayis Aparna 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

 

                                                

            The Divine Mother is satisfied even by our imperishable offerings.