Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 994: Shri Abala gopa vidita (ōṃ ābālagōpaviditāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is known well by all, even by children and cowherds.

She is understood by all in this universe including children and cowherds. Micro beings also have intelligence to know the nature around them to get their needs. Those without eyes have long sensing body parts. All levels of beings in the widespread Universe, depending on their needs, have the means to make a successful living. So, for a devotee to adapt with nature is good form of devotion to the Divine Mother, who is Universe Herself. She created the universe.

Good and evil humans are there in the universe. One must work with other people. All forms in this universe we see are of the Divine Mother is the inner meanings of this Namam.

She is known to all. Children without maturity do not understand the divinities; cowherds do not have time to think about divinities. But these groups understand the Divine Mother as Supreme Divinity.

Three murtis Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra are under Sadashivan, who too is known to the young kids. Those who safeguard the world are gopiers, and the Divine Mother is understood by them also.

Young child Kanna with who had played (with gopiers) is Shiva as Pasupathi and Gopala is Krishna. They both are known to children and cowherds. The Divine Mother is in such forms as Pasupathi and Gopala to be understood by all universal beings including children and cowherds.

There is no one from the greatest scholar to the idiot, who does not utter the word “Mother” from time to time. The Divine Mother is none other than their biological mother. The child initially does not know anyone else, yet it will know its own mother. The Divine Mother is known by all.

Bala in this Namam refers to Brahman and Gopa to Sadashivan, thus the Divine Mother as part of the Brahman is known to all including the less knowledgeable to cow herds.

Bala Gopa is also known as Krishna, the Paramatman. To Krishna, who is a manifestation of the Supreme Being, the Divine Mother is none other than His Own Self. Ther is no one who does not know the self-called “I”. The only difference of opinion exists in who this “I” refers to. The meaning of this Namam can be that all from one who knows the” I” to be same as Brahman, the primeval (prime) source of the universe, to one who takes the “I” to mean the Jiva is proud of its gross body. All know the Divine Mother well. She represents knowledge in any form, from gross to the subtle.

Also, Go means knowledge or intelligence. Gopa as a scholar is the one who protects this knowledge. The Divine Mother is known by all, from children to scholars to cowherds. The only difference is in the nature of the knowledge, but that difference is not important. Devi’s Motherly love is equal for all beings in this universe. All souls know Her well.

The Divine Mother is known well by all,

even by children and cowherds.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 14 October 2022; Updated 07 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.