Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 819: Shri Sarvantaryamini (ōṃ sarvantaryaminiai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother dwells inside all universal beings.

She is ruling all universal beings, residing within them. Most people mind their own business. They, in general, do not get involved in others matters. Even if they try to get involved in others’ matters, it may not be approved and welcomed by others. The Divine Mother is in everybody’s heart, thereby ruling their desires and actions. If they go against Her control, they face hardships and suffer; by this way, She is correcting individual beings to right paths.

For those going in improper ways, their conscience being the Divine Mother does not allow them. Whenever someone avoids the Divine Mother’s worship, he faces suffering by being punished.

Like the beads connected with a string to make a Chain, the Divine Mother is linked to all beings. All universal beings are required to be kind and affectionate to one another. If anyone hurts another being, it is equivalent to rejecting the Divine Mother’s involvement within him. Each being cannot dispel hatred to other beings and progress further. The Divine Mother functions in each of the universal beings.

She is inside the heart of every being in this universe. She is not affected by any defects in the bodies of universal beings. She controls the actions of each being.

“This is Thy Self, which is within all and is immortal” says, the Brhadaranyeka Upanishad, III.7.3. “This dwells on all and is original of all.” Says Mandukya Upanishad 6. The Sruti also declares, “The one who is born in the form of all devatas, along with all elements, and with Prana (Hiranyagarbha), and who entering heart, abide therein, he who knows that

Aditi (the enjoyer of the universe) verily knows Brahman (the cause of all). This is verily that.” By Kata Upanishad, II.1.7.

The Smrti also says, “As She always knows the beginning and the end of all universal beings, and as She creates the beings and the non-beings (sat and asat), She is known as Sarva.”

This Nama “Sarvantar Yamini” may also be interpreted as “She who directs (Yamini) the inner sense (antah) of all beings (Sarva).

Yamini also means “night”. Thus, this Nama may be taken to mean, “She who is night to the inner senses of all beings.” Recal following verse from Gita (II.69), “That which is night for all beings, in that disciplined soul keeps awake when all being are awake, that is the night for the sage who sees.” When all others are attracted by the glitter of sense objects, the sage is intent on understanding the Truth. He is awake to the reality of nature to which he is unwise or asleep or indifferent.

The Divine Mother dwells inside all universal beings.            

 

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 22 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 dwells inside all universal beings.