The Divine Mother supports righteous living universal beings.
She is the base and support for dharma, the righteous thing. Dharma, its support and the Divine Mother are same. The universe is widely spread. It has five elements, and they have their dharma to follow. Heating or burning things is the dharma of Agni (fire). The plants have a touching feeling. Ants have touch, smell, and taste senses with them. To live for public cause is the dharma for universal beings. Bees have five senses, providing for universal beings’ needs. Purity of life and the dharma way of functioning help many universal beings.
Humans have five senses plus common-sense thinking capabilities. They also have bright, radiant and divine levels in their life. Dharma-raja in Mahabharata, commendably saved his four younger brothers and a dog on his way to heaven. The Divine Mother is in many forms of support for righteous people.
People have lived in all times in this universe, without selfishness and not slipping from righteous way of doing things. These were given to them by the Divine Mother as the Divine Ruler. She ensures continuous dharma ways of things are carried out without any blockage.
He who protects dharma is, in turn, protected by leading a dharma (righteous) way of life.
Dharma can also mean “that which gives support”. The Divine Mother is the support of that dharma itself. Bhaskararaya quotes from Samvarta Sruti, “In any country the code of conduct that is handed down by tradition and is not contrary to the scriptures called dharma,”
Splitting the Nama as dhrama + a (widely) + dhara (stream), the meaning of this Namam becomes be “She who showers dharma everywhere.”
C N Nachiappan
Singapore, 26 June 2022;
updated 04 September 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
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