Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 880: Shri Samsara panka nirmagna samuddharana pandita (ōṃ saṃsārapaṅkanirmagna samuddharaṇapaṇḍitāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is skilled in raising those whose life is immersed in the mire of transmigratory (the movement of a soul from one body to another after death (like reincarnation). Samsara is the mire of mud.

She is skillful in rescuing the souls caught in samsara mud.  Without an end, ‘birth and death’ cycle may continue for the souls. Those souls desiring birth can avoid the death and get salvation. Like the night following the day, the death follows the birth. In each birth, the souls use this universe to mature. Micro lives grow into major lives. Of all these universal beings, humans hold the highest form. In current birth, souls/ humans will have sorrow after their short-term happiness. There is no happiness without final sadness in this universal life. Those who understand it try to reduce and remove their attachments. When those attachments are fully removed, the desire to reach the Brahman will come up for them. For souls looking for release from the samsara, the Divine Mother helps them to gain Liberation. Those who have no desire for birth and death are fortunate. They have crossed most of the samsara. All souls ultimately reach that state to be liberated by the Divine Mother.

Samsara mud is spread very widely. Those, who have desire for birth and death cycle, cannot get out of it on their own. When one tries to release one leg from this mud, his other leg gets deeper into the mud. So, he must safely leave the first leg out of the mud in a place and try to lift the second leg from the mud. In this process, he must place his first leg in the mud. This process of releasing one leg and getting caught again in the mud continues. During such time, for a sincere devotee, the Divine Mother lifts the human completely out of the mud, to a safe place. She does that easily and skillfully. The Divine Mother is not in the mud. The Divine Mother can only save the devotee caught in samsara mud. The Divine Mother has no samsara linkage or attachments. No one else other than Her can save souls from this samsara mud to be liberated.

The Divine Mother can also uplift those who are insatiably following a life of drinking, dissipation, and harming others. The Divine Mother is called Pandita, the one who knows the Self. She knows the secret of raising devotee’s consciousness.

The Divine Mother’s vow is this, “The Mother will take your hand and lead you forward; She will remove the stinging hand cuffs; She will give Her hand and show the way, so you do not slip into samsara cycle.” What further assurance do we need in life? There is not a single empty word in the Divine Mother’s above promise.

The Divine Mother is skilled in raising those who are

                                  immersed in samsara cycle.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 22 June 2022; updated 28 August 2025.

 

References:

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