The Divine Mother is fond of
hymns in Her praise.
She likes the devotees praising Her during their worship. There are many who praise others to get what they want from others. To praise the divinities after understanding their glories is Niska Miya method of praising.
A child asking its mother specific thing is Kamiya prayer and there is no mistake in it. The Divine Mother is the Universal Mother for all. She provides the needs of all people. If a child disturbs its mother for something it wants, its mother is not too concerned. She considers that her happiness. By providing the child’s needs her love and affection increase. By praying and praising (Stotra) the Divine Mother, our affection to Her grows.
She likes praising about Her glories and kindness. All attributes cannot be understood and said by one’s mind. Yet those attributes which one’s minds can understand and express out become the Divine Mother’s Stotra. This is not saying non-existing things in Stotra to Her.
Six ways to praise the Divine Mother can be listed as:
1.
To mention
Her glories as Namaskar am
2.
To praise
Her
3.
To explain
the tattvas of the Divine Mother
4.
To praise
Her victories over Her enemies such as Bhandasura
5.
To praise Her
wonderful forms.
6.
To praise Her
and seek our needs from Her.
We have seen above six ways of praising in following earlier six Namas: 79, 448, 627, 658, 692 and 735. These one thousand names in this Sahasranamam are covered in these six ways of praising the Divine Mother. Those who recite this Sahasra Nama are pleasing the Divine Mother very much.
Stotra or praise is in six ways mentioned in another way are
1. Salutation and prostration (Namaskar).
2. Blessing the deity whose power may have dwindled as is
3. Praising the inner essence of the deity (Siddhant eka)
4. Praising the exploits of the deity (parikrama)
5. Praising the glories (Vibhuti)
and
6.pnaya (Prathama).
These ways of praising the Divine Mother were seen in following Namas 63, 79, 627, 658, 692, and 735 in this Sahasranamam.
Stotra also means Vedic mantra. The Divine Mother is especially pleased to hear the chanting of mantras from the Vedas, praising Her.
The Divine Mother is fond of hymns in Her praise.
C N Nachiappan
Singapore, 08 August 2022;
updated 15 October 2025.
References:
1.The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published by Mata Amritanandam in California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon
2, Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram
published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Tiruchirappalli,
India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.
3. The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sith-bavandar.
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