Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 977: Shri Dasa mudra samaradhya (ōṃ daśamudrāsamārādhyāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is worshipped by ten mudras or positions of the fingers and hands used in worship.

Using one hand fingers, showing signs are called mudras. By appropriately adjusting hands and fingers, the various mudras are formed. When worshipping, the devotee’s feelings cause his hand fingers to take certain shapes. These happens naturally due to his mindset.

We ought to learn the mudras from experts and start using them. If there are mistakes in our mudras, the concept that the Divine Mother will be angry is baseless. Pure mindedness is more important than mudras. With pure and sincere devotion, any prayer done to the Divine Mother are all best accepted by Her.

The Divine Mother is worshipped by ten mudras; there are more than fifty mudras used for the Divine Mother. During Navarana pooja, the ten mudras are shown; for the list ten types of mudras please see the last paragraph. These Shaktis are in Sri Chakra Pura inside. The first nine mudras Shaktis are in each triangle western side holding the key to the doors.

Mudras shown and hidden and sealed to give happiness. Both hands and ten fingers are used to form mudras. Yoni mudra consists of many yonis. These mudras help the mind, speech, and action; these are three things to be controlled within us.

Our hands have special consideration among our body parts. Our hands are used to cool and comfort the main deity, Shiva, through abeshagam. These hands are helping to unlock many secrets to understand the shining form of the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother is worshipped with Mudras.

Mudras are the language in which a worshipper’s body talks to the deity. The emotion and devotion in his heart are expressed though mudras and in his body movements. It is not enough to keep devotion in the heart; it should be expressed out. Mudras are the offerings of the soul through motions of fingers and other organs. They help in self-surrender and give additional support for mental concentration. Each mudra is filled with a deity’s presence.

List of the ten mudras used in the Divine mother’s worship are as follows:

1.     Sarvasanksobhini (that which agitates all)

2.     Sarvavidravini (that which drives all)

3.     Sarvakarsini (that which attracts all)

4.     Sarva vasankari (that which brings all under control)

5.     Sarvonmadini (that which deludes everyone)

6.     Sarvamahankusa (that which inspires and awakens everyone)

7.     Sarvakhecari (that which causes travel in the sky, that is experience of flight without wings, sometimes comes to devotees)

8.     Sarva bija (the seed of all)

9.     Sarvayoni (the original of all, this mudra is considered most important, as it is the mudra of the Bindu)

   10. Sarvatrikhanda: the last mudra which includes Sri cakra in all its         entirety. It is celebrated as extending over the entire Cakra raja.

Puja Padahati describes these mudras in detail. The Divine Mother is worshipped by all these ten mudras.

The Divine Mother is worshipped by ten mudras.

 

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 27 September 2022; updated 03 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.