Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 878: Shri Svatmarama (ōṃ svātmārāmāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother always rejoices in Her Own Self. Svatmarama means "he who is sporting in his own Self". Arama is a garden or the symbol of perishable prakriti or universe.

A lady looking at her own image in a mirror is happy about herself and her beauty. The singer is happy about his singing. The person cooking will find the food he cooked to be nicer, irrespective of shortfalls identified. These are due to self-satisfaction on whatever they are doing.

In waking stage many billions of universal beings see and are satisfied with the total universal things created by the Divine Mother. What these people see in their dreams are the sights created by themselves. The Divine Mother later brings out what they saw in their dreams to the outside world and rejoices on those sportingly. In third stage of deep sleeping, the universal beings forget all these external and internal universes they saw in previous two stages; They start towards Brahman, which will not always disappear. What each universal being sees and enjoys in his normal sleep is svatrmarama. For all universal beings which had been created by Brahma or the Divine Mother’s instruction, such svatrmarama is applicable. This svatrmarama is for those getting satisfaction and joy on oneself. That is applicable to all the universal beings created by the Divine Mother.

She is in all universal things. They are nothing but Her. As such, She, has no body to play with; She sportingly plays and rejoices with Her Own Self. Each human/soul needs rest, peace, and happiness through sports. The Divine Mother provides happiness to all universal beings.  The Divine Mother who is in all Universal beings, plays as male and own Self. She enjoys such plays.

The Supreme consciousness (Brahman) divides into two for the purpose of creation of the universe and become the pair, Shiva, and Shakti. The Supreme makes itself a garden (arama) for the purpose of play. Thus, the universe is the pleasure garden of Shiva and Shakti. The Divine Mother is in the form of Shiva-Shakti. She has made Her Own Self the universe or Prakriti. She plays sports in universe and as Supreme Self.

The Divine Mother rejoices in Her own Self.

 

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 20 June 2022; updated 27 August 2025.

References:

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