Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 974: Shri Bindu tarpana Santusta (ōṃ bindutarpaṇasantuṣṭāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is pleased by devotee’s offering to the Bindu.

She is very happy with materials offered to other Goddesses. All souls are improving in maturity according to their current states. A mature plant takes the form of a seed. Brahmacharyam becomes the best form of achievement for humans. To safeguard their forms, fasting is one good way is the saying. No human being has gone beyond Brahmacharyam. For Bheeshma in Mahabharata, it was his principle to give things sought from him by others. Such an action is called tarpanam. What Bheeshma followed was ideally the Divine Mother’s scheme of things. Bheeshma was considered as a great soul. Any human’s great achievement is compared to Bheeshma’s. Such a scheme of things by the Divine Mother is applied to all living beings.

Universal beings being useful to others is a good thing; the Divine Mother is pleased. For anyone to understand that the Divine Mother ‘s scheme of things to be useful to others and to live by it is a good form of the Divine Mother worship.

In Sri Chakra Meru centre triangle, the Bindu is located; it is where the Divine Mother is residing. The devotee, depending upon his ability to properly offer milk, and honey (Madu) to the Divine Mother here is called Bindu Tarpanam. Here the offered milk in drops is falling on Bindu, it is Bindu Tarpanam also. Bindu is relatively small, yet this offering gives mental satisfaction to the devotee. The Divine Mother is pleased in such Bindu Tarpanam.

Bindu also refers to the Sarvanand Amaya Chakra in Sri Chakra. Tarpana here means doing pooja offerings to Chakra according to prescribed rules.

Following the codes for honoring and sizing others is important not only in humans, but also in Divinities relations. The Divine Mother often says, “only the laziest will say, observances are meaningless, and I will never follow them,” Human life is not an intellectual activity, but an emotional one. Naming a child, giving it solid food for the first time, celebrating its first birthday, and other rituals are a means of showing emotions. The child will anyway, grow without any of these and usually does not demand them, yet they are important as rituals. Rituals are needed; improper rituals are to be eliminated. Rituals are subject to tie and circumstances, Wisemen will correct unbecoming rituals from time to time. The Divine Mother is pleased at this.

Bindu also means intelligence. The Divine Mother is one who is pleased with the worship by wisemen.

The Divine Mother is pleased by devotee’s offering to the Bindu.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 24 September 2022; updated 02 November 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.