Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 980: Shri Jnana gamya (ōṃ Jṇānagamyāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is to be attained through yoga knowledge.

She is attainable through Jnana (Knowledge). Depending upon one’s knowledge level, he can leave out the soul’s evil conditions, and to improve upon his reach towards Brahman. A man in his sleep gets a bigger suffering and he is worried, but once he wakes up, he realizes that those sufferings were only in his dream. Dreaming represents ajnana or ignorance. The jnana or knowledge pushes that ignorance away in waking stage. Soul’s current life is like a long dream state. Each soul goes through many births to reach the current life. The whole universe is a form of ignorance. Being ignorant to dream to reach Brahman is like a form of ignorance. We need to understand that Brahman is knowledge, and its blessing is the Para Jnana.

All things are understood through Jnana or knowledge of the Divine Mother. She cannot be easily understood by other means, but mainly though Janana. She is understood and attained without any issues or confusion, The Supreme Self, “I “cannot be found or attained by any other means, but only through understanding that “I”. One can reach that “I”. If there is time, place or cause, then one can attain it in different means or ways. Those other ways cannot be useful to reach the “I” and only Jnana path is the means to reach “I” or the Divine Mother. So, She is called Jnana Gamya.

Bhaskaracariya quotes from the Kumara Puranam as spoken by the Divine Mother, “my consciousness, benevolence (auspiciousness of Shiva), free from all limitations, infinite, immortal, and Supreme is attained by wisdom alone. That Supreme abode is attained only with difficulty. Those wise persons, who think that knowledge is the best means, enter Me.”.

However firmly one fixes the Knowledge of Brahman in one’s mind, one cannot experience Brahmam, because of conditionings (limitations).

The human limitations (upadhis) arise from his mind, of the sensing organs and of the whole body. Only an intelligence, that transcends the mind and senses to be free of these limitations attains that Brahman experience.

The Divine Mother is to be attained through

yoga knowledge.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 30 September 2022; updated 04 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.