Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 842: Shri Bhava rogaghni (ōṃ bhavarōgadhnyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother eradicates the disease of cycle of birth and death for Her devotees.

She removes Her Devotees’ Samsara Sagara or the cycle of life and death. Universal beings’ birth is innumerably expanding. Most universal beings like to have a body and live in this world with many births. They try to mature to higher level. Being born as a human is considered best. Even after reaching the level of mankind, with its earlier birth papas and the attachments, the soul goes through the cycle of life and death. The soul thinks that this worldly life provides the enjoyment it seeks. All its happiness is mixed with sorrows in this world, is what the soul understands later. It also understands that there is more sorrow in this worldly life. With prayers to the Divine Mother, its attachments slowly start to leave it. It prays hard to the Divine Mother to grant life without rebirth or liberation. With highly mature yogis mostly understand the true nature of the Divine Mother.

She eliminates the cycle of life and death for the universal beings (souls). Rogam means pain or suffering that will not give peace. Birth is suffering for the soul which goes through repeatedly with six modifications of life. The Divine Mother eliminates such suffering happening due to birth cycle. If the next rebirth is higher level or there will be no more births, then the soul will have reduced suffering in next birth. First the Divine Mother gives a life with sufferings to souls and later, She eliminates the accumulated papas from earlier births, for them.

The Ramayana says,” I see no other medicine than Shiva”. The Shiva Purana says,” just as medicine is for diseases, so is Shiva for removing the sorrow of samsara”. As spouse of Shiva, She is called Bhava rogaghni.

                                  The Divine Mother eradicates the disease of

          cycle of birth and death for Her devotees.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 15 May 2022; updated 14 August 2025.

 

 

References:

1.     The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamis AparnaSan 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