Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 872: Shri Trayi (ōṃ trayyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is in three Vedas forms. She is the inner meaning or essence of all Vedas, especially three Vedas.

She is in Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas forms. These three Vedas explain the universal beings and nature of things. Atharva Veda, the fourth one, explains the many exceptional strengths of the universe. To understand and use Vamacharam or Veda is not easy for humans. So, many discord the procedures mentioned in the Atharva Veda as procedures laid out in this Veda are difficult to follow ad harmful if used wrongly. Dhashnacharam is common to all and useable by humans. If Vamacharam is wrongly handled, it can cause excessive harm as Paramahamsa had cautioned to disciples. This Namam implies that we need not know the Vamacharam. We can follow balance three Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas. The Divine Mother is in these three Vedas.

The use of other three Vedas, namely Rg, Yajur, and Sama Vedas had been practiced.This is called Trayi or triple state. The Divine Mother as Bala and Her Vakbhakuta contained bija syllable. Rg Veda starts with ‘a’ and Yajur Veda starts with ‘e’, and Sama Veda starts with ‘a’. So, all three starting bija syllables are added to form ‘ai’ which is Vakbha bija syllable. So, the Divine Mother is in ai bija form as well.

Sama and Rg Vedas begin with the syllable ‘a’.  Yajur Veda begins with the syllable ‘I’. Combining these three beginning syllables of these three Vedas results in ‘a+I’, according to the rules of grammar, we get the sound ‘e’. Adding this to the ‘a’ of Sama Veda results in ‘ai’. This sound is called sucirupa in Tantra. This is the bija-aksara (seed syllable) in the vagbhava kuta of the Pancadasi mantra. Thus, by combining the first letters of the three Vedas, we get the meaning for the Trayi.  The Divine Mother is the form of Suci, the bija of vagbhava kuta.

The Divine Mother is the inner meaning

of three Vedas.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 14 June 2022; updated 26.08.2025.

 References:

1.     The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother publiget happinessby 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