Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 5: Shri Deva Karia Samuthyuga (OM devakAryasamudyatAyai namaH)

Shri Deva Kariya Samuthyuga means that the Divine Mother originated from yaga fire to save the sages devars and other matured souls from the evil forces and to grow them in maturity further.

There was a reference in earlier namam 4 on Padmasuran, the evil force, who had been acting without senses, required maturities and without adequate understanding. The selfishness takes a form of a major evil force. This covers and hides the natural divineness present in souls.

For every element that is useful in a human body, there are sources of support provided by the divine system in this universe. For example the eyes have the support of the Sun, for the words that are spoken are supported by the fire element, for the tongue the supporting force is the rain, for the body skin the wind acts as a support, for the hands the Indran plays a supporting function, for the legs Vishnu acts as a support and for the mind the moon acts as a supporting element.

With their own minds which the sages have and if they choose to go in wrong path, they miss to use their good spirits and they start to suffer hardships. The Divine Mother, who originated from the yaga fire, clears such misfortunes to sages and allows them to do their holy actions with sufficient maturity. The Divine Mother is keen to improve the elements explained earlier for the souls of the sages and to mature them to higher level.

In this universe the plants have only one element to support them which is their sensitiveness to touching them and they do live fulfilled life until they are dead. Each soul graduates to higher level with more elements to support them, like the humans from birth with all the elements essentially backing their knowledge and mind that goes with it.

Ultimately, the Divine Mother keeps this objective in improving the souls in this universe.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 29 January 2020.

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 4: Shri Sith Agni Kunda Sambotha (OM chidagnikuNDasambhUtAyai namaH)

The namam Shri Sith Agni Kunda Sambotha can mean that the Divine Mother rose from a Yaga Fire or from an immense Knowledge based fire to save her devotees. Sith Agni Kunda can be translated to the yaga fire capable of burning away all the negatives.

According to earlier Hindu events, Pandasuran, who represents the evil forces, had got involved with the girls created by Lord Vishnu. He forgot his regular prayers to the Almighty and started troubling the sages (Devargals). Such troubles reached a point that the sages cannot bear them anymore. They prayed to the Divine Mother to save them. They initiated a yagam (a fire wherein they sacrifice their best loved items) to show to the Divine Mother that they did not have any more desire for materialistic things. They even cut their own body parts and threw into the fire. The Divine Mother saw the sages’ unselfishness. Their ego had gone. The Divine Mother arose from this yaga fire, where the sages had offered themselves. This Yaga fire is called the Sith Agni Kunda in Sanskrit. This yaga fire is capable of burning away all negatives and hardships in the devotees. This yaga fire can be related to the Gnanam or the Almighty’s superior immense knowledge. The ego and selfishness are all burned away and the “I” within the devotee or the sage is gone as the Divine Mother arises from the yaga fire.

The other way of looking at this namam is to visualize the Divine Mother rose from immense knowledge based fire. In this universe most of the things are in solid form and through the prayer to the Divine Mother they are converted to selflessness, without ego stage, which can be termed as Sith strength. For example, the Kumari Devi, in Kannyakumari in Southern tip of India is demonstrating this prayer to Almighty to ultimately reach and merge with the Almighty. All souls in this universe will follow such a process of prayers to merge with the Almighty. They achieve no further births in this universe for them.

The essence of this namam is to show that for saving her devotes, the Divine Mother will rise and burn the devotees’ negatives such as ego, selfishness, aggression etc to purify them to be united with the Almighty.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 28 January 2020, Tuesday

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 3: Shri Math Shimhanaeswari (OM shrImatsiMhAsaneshvaryai namaH)

The namam Shri Math Shimhanaeswari means the one sitting on Shimahasanam which is a position of power and authority. The Divine Mother is sitting in such a position of power and authority and ruling the whole Universe. Shimam is a Sanskrit word to mean the Lion.

A leader in any field occupies an authoritative seat, reflecting his leadership authority and the responsibility coming with it. In our types of homes, the person who brings in earnings for that household such as money is considered the leader of the household. In a village or a town, the person who commands the majority support of the people through his achievement and leadership occupies the deciding position or the power of authority. In a state or a country the Chief Minister or the Prime Minister occupies such a seat of power. One of the examples is the President of United States of America through America’s leading financial and military might is occupying the world leader status. In olden days the King or the Emperor occupied such a seat of power/authority.

The Lion is the strongest Animal in a forest. To ride on a Lion, one has to have the strength to control the Lion first and occupy the position of controlling the Lion. The Divine mother being the provider of the needs and strict ruler of her subjects in the universe, her seat of authority is very similar to person riding a Lion in a forest. She is handling the total affairs of the universe as the ruler and her seat is called a Shimahasanam which a position of power and authority.

With all her strength and power, the Divine Mother is the sole authority and there can be no comparison to her position in the Universe. Essentially the Divine Mother is sitting on a Shimahasanam and ruling the Universe with total power and authority.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 27 January 2020, Monday

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 2: Shri Maharakini (OM shrImahArAj ~ nai namaH)

The literal meaning of this namam is that the Divine Mother is the respected female Emperor. Then question rises as to how the Divine Mother is ruling the universe under her care? She is the very kind to all beings, all right and at the same time she is ruling the Universe justly and systematically.

All other mothers save and serve their own children in kindest manner. As a result, if one of her child misbehaves, the normal mother tolerates such actions; she does not discipline her own child out of motherly love for the said child.

Even in ancient kingdoms or modern day way of ruling Governments, the misbehaving individual can still escape the penalty or punishment of the ruling government by falsifying the evidences in court or using any other means of weaknesses in the administrative system in place. This we see now a day’s many times all over the globe from the highest ranking government official to the common man in the street. This means that the common government ruling system is or cannot be perfect in many respects.

There is a Tamil saying, literally translated: The king would kill immediately but the Almighty or the Divine Mother will wait and give time for the individual to correct himself before punishing him.

Then how this happens? Say, when someone lies to cover his mistake in anything that he does for example, his mind is dirtied or spoiled from the mistake he had committed. His self conscience starts to prick him and it grows much bigger and bigger. This is the starting point of punishment to that individual from the Divine Mother. The individual starts to face hardships in his life. When an individual is facing such hardships he starts to ask himself first and the Almighty or the Divine Mother as to what mistake he had done in his previous births or in present birth. If he were to analyze his hardship, he seeks temporary forms of relief in doing parigaram etc hoping that he can get by his mistakes or he understands the root cause of his hardship and starts to correct himself. Every time the individual slips into misbehaving unjustly, the hardship starts to hit him again and again. This is the system the Divine Mother using in getting her wards to avoid doing criminal actions. As such anyone wanting to have an improved life will not attempt to misbehave.

This is the respected female Emperor or the Divine Mother’s way of ruling the Universe under her care. Let us glorify to the Divine Mother’s ways of handling the wards under her.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 26 January 2020.

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 1: Shri Matha (OM aiM hrIM shrIM shrImAtre namaH)

Matha, Pitha and Guru Deivam is a saying, which is very true. Of all Mother and Child relationship is the best for the Child. The mother holds the child within her for 10 months gives birth and takes care of the child as long as she lives. For any person at any age the mother however aged the person is still her child and she shows her same kindness all through as long as she is alive. As a child she had her blood turned into milk to give it to the child. Motherly love is such a respected divine thing.

Even in other living things, they have a way of giving birth and safe guarding their own children. Right from insects, birds and strong animals like Lion have their own way of taking care of their children. I have read that for a Camel when a child is born, even before the child can help himself, the mother Camel will kick the child far apart and wait for the child to struggle to get and stand up, if the child fails, the mother Camel will keep on kicking the child until the child gets up and stands on its own. The mother Camel does it to make the child to face the adverse conditions in the forest, to run if needed to safe guard itself, as without it any strong animal can come and eat the child as food in no time. This is the way the Camel shows its motherly love to the child. In this universe, in every living condition, is a human being or other living creatures, the mother will find a way to feed and safe guard the child.

If a simple mother can take care of her child, the Divine Mother provides all the needs and safety of living beings in this Universe. Starting with giving life to a child to mature the child further is the greatest effort by the mother; likewise the Divine Mother does the same thing for all living things under her care.

It is very appropriate to call the Divine Mother as Shri Matha and use it as the very first name in this Sahasranamam.

C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 25 January 2020.

Shri Lalitha Saharsranamam (shrI lalitA sahasranAmAvalI): An introduction note

Shri Lalitha Sagaranamam, was instructed by Shri Lalitha Herself and recorded by her assistant Devis. It is considered the highest Saharsranamam by Hindu Vedas. There are many people, in the past, had written the meaning for this Saharsranamam, the well known being the Acharya Bhaskaraya. In recent times, many well known religious institutions had written very detailed meaning for this Saharsranamam in many Indian languages, I understand there are even full meaning English versions, available in book form in India. Those versions are done by professional people with high professional standards, needing a better level of understanding for a common man. For me, by Purvapuniyam effect, I had learnt this Saharsranamam, namavalli some 40 years ago and had the pleasure of reciting it almost every day and learnt the meaning some of these names which are in Sanskrit. I wish to come up with meaning of each name, in my own understanding way to bringing it to the common man level. I am not perfect in my understanding of these names, yet it is my sincere attempt to present explanations for each name in readable way in simple English. I give a start on this Thai Amamavasi day.

There are only 1000 namams in this Saharsranamam as against expectation of 1008 Namams in most Saharsranamams, starting from Shri Matha and ending with Shri Lalithambigai. I will continue in proper sequence from 25.01.2020 starting from Namam 1 and going forward to 1000, one name each day.

Today, I will prepare a sample write up on my favourite Namam (989): Vangitharthaprathayini. This Namam gives the complete essence of Divine Mother’s kindness and providing functions for the whole universe, controlled by Her other half Lord Siva. In my view this name Vangitharthaprathayini summaries this Saharsranamam in total.

If a five to six month old child cries, only the child’s mother will know the reason for the child’s crying, for example, the child is hungry or having pain somewhere in its body or needing sleep or in confused due to external noise / conditions. The child’s mother will do the needful to calm and put the child most probably to sleep.  

In a similar way, the Divine Mother, you have now put me in this materialist world in this birth, I do not know the ways to meet all my needs, you only know my needs in all and you provide for them for me. You are doing this not for me alone; you are doing for the whole universe with billions of human creatures, animals living on land, sea and in outer planets etc. You control all assets for the materistic uses above and below earth for mankind. Other Deivams such as Lord Vishnu also performs similar saving and providing functions but his reach is, we believe is limited. All other Deivams get their instructions and help from you only. You are the Ultimate in providing for all living souls and giving them the mukthi or liberation from the birth and death cycle to reach you with no further birth for them from this current life for the soul.

For all other Deivams, there are meaningful songs which have described them as Mother, as well. Apper, Sundarar, Thirunaukkarar and likes have described Lord Siva in motherly role, Shanda Anupoothi 42 th song says Lord Muruga is the mother and similarly Vinava write ups show Lord Vishnu in motherly role, meaning all these do the motherly function, but the Ultimate Mother is only you, the Divine Mother. There is no one else but you who can provide for me for meeting my life’s needs. I pray to you in full faith to take care my needs in total.

C N Nachiappun,

Singapore.

24 January 2020, Friday, Thai new moon day

Listed companies with hidden assets

The company's valuations and its share price in most cases may not match. There may be considerable hidden assets within the company but due to various economic reasons, the said company's latest reported regular earnings may be very poor and its share price may not fully reflect its inherent strength.

• For example, Binny Mills in Chennai India had plenty of landed property assets near Koovam River and Central Railway station, worth crores ( millions) of Indian Rupees. But the company's earnings from its regular fabric business was very poor, its share price was struggling around INR 10.  One analyst identified the potential property asset valuations and a local Industrial group of companies started buying the Binny Mills shares from INR 10 and accumulated about 75 percent of the total Binny Mills issued shares.  The property valuations started to go up in Chennai and Binny Mills share price had gone upto INR 1000, a hundred times appreciation, giving the group several hundred crores of total asset holding on their Binny Mills shares. Such investments are to be considered for medium term basis and cannot expect gains in short term.

• In every stock exchange such undervalued shares can be identified, The poor valuation can be due to multiple reasons. In USA Macy's operating revenue used to be normal, but its prime asset holding will make it a worthwhile candidate for buying. 

• However, in developed markets like USA, the companies would have covered such hidden assets with bond issues to raise capital. Recently, it was found that the JC Penny shares in USA was trading below below USD 2, at  USD 1.76. JC Penny had property assets worth considering to accumulate the companies shares. On analysis, it was found out that  more than enough bonds had been issued by JC Penny to cover such property assets and the company may be struggling to meet us bond payments becoming due in near term.

• In Singapore, understand, most listed Transport companies depreciate their assets in shorter time than the real useful life of their assets such as an aircraft by Singapore Airlines or a bus by a listed bus operator, such as SBS Transit, thereby creating a balance sheet hidden assets. When such assets are sold, these companies make extra ordinary gains on which there may not be additional tax paid. Such company shares are, in general, under valued.