Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 302: Shri Hrimathi (OM hrImatyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is endowed with modesty. 

The Divine Mother gives the modesty to good souls. She is in modest form. As universal leader, She does not easily appear in front of everybody. Likewise  non worshippers cannot get Her grace and blessings. However, She is easily available to Her devotees. The meaning of this Namam is that the Divine Mother does not so easily give darshan for anybody; except for Her devotees. 

Hri stops the bad acts being performed by humans. Those learned people, dealing with matured souls will be shy to do any bad things. This is natural for them. 

Nobility comes from modesty. Modesty is an ornament or a protection given to women. Nature or the Divine Mother gives modesty to women as a protective cover. The Divine Mother is endowed with such modesty Herself. 

The Divine Mother is shy and modest in performing Her actions.

The Divine Mother 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 22 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

3.    The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar 

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 301: Shri Hrim kari (OM hrI ~ NkAryai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is in the form of the syllable “Hrim”. 

Hri means humbleness; when someone is humble at appropriate time towards the Divine Mother, it is a form of worship. Whoever refuses to glorify and spell out his own good attributes, he is called the Hari. Donating one’s wealth to other good causes with shyness and not publishing the whole event is considered “Hari” also. If a girl promotes her own beauty to others, she will have her beauty reduced in due course. The Divine Mother has the power; She created this vast universe; yet She did not advertise Her strengths. She is Supreme Self. 

The Divine Mother is in Nada rupa; bija mantras have special references. The souls reciting bija mantras progress to higher level. Hrim is the bija (seed syllable) known as Bhuvanesavari, (Namam 294) with the meaning that the Divine Mother is the ruler of the universe. According to Tantra, the sounds ‘h’, ‘r’ and ‘i’, when accompanied by ‘m’ demotes creation, preservation and dissolution. “Hrim” is the mantra that represents the Sakti of the Divine Mother, who is identified with functions namely, the creation, preservation and dissolution. 

Hrim can also mean shame. The Divine Mother creates the shamefulness for the people with sinful acts. The people facing such shame try to avoid it. If this feeling to avoid shame is not there, people will still be doing sinful actions. Hrim is born out of ego, body centric; we need to have the feelings of shame, humbleness and shyness in life to reach the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother saves us from such fate having shamefulness. So She is Hrim kari.

The Divine Mother 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 21 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

3.       The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 300: Shri Nama rupa vivarjita (OM nAmarUpavivarjitAyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother has no real name or form. She is identified or called in many rupa forms depending on the circumstances and need. 

The Divine Mother is beyond Namam and rupa. The sound is the initial part of the universal creation; that has a name attached to it. Things are called by names by their usefulness to mankind. The learned people in ancient days, when naming the objects had considered the sound created by the objects; then they appropriately named the objects to reflect their usefulness. 

Any object with a name is subjected to time, space and its usefulness. The Divine Mother is not subjected to any such constraint. 

Sea has waves reaching its shores. Major part of the seas is way beyond the waves reaching the shores; sea is very wide. The Divine Mother’s infiniteness cannot be mentioned or explained by any means. Even this 1000 Names Sahasranamam explains only a very small fraction of the Her total true self. She is true Supreme Self. 

When we realize that the five attributes of the universe namely are: existence (sat), knowledge (cit), bliss (ananda), name (namam) and the form (rupa) within the Divine Mother, which helps for us to understand Her better. She has the sat cit form within Her. She is eternal, not changing, shows no difference to various maturity level universal creatures, not decaying nor having any rupa. Due to names and rupas, the universe looks different at various locations. She is not in such names; She is there forever as Brahman. Of the five attributes referred earlier, in first three (sat-cit-ananda) are in Brahman and the other two are in the physical world. 

After calling the Divine Mother in earlier Namam 299 as Nada rupa (one having the sound form), saying that She does not have any form here looks contradicting. For anything that has been perceived by human senses, name and form are unavoidable. All things in this universe have names and forms; they are explicit manifestations of Brahman; we know the Supreme Brahman or Existence is without a given name or form. So there is no real contradiction in describing the Divine Mother without form or name or rupa.

 

                                                          Goddess Madurai Meenakshi 

with golden kreedam.

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 20 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 299: Shri Nada rupa (OM nAdarUpAyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed.

 

The Divine Mother is in the form of sound.

 

Brahman has come to be known as Nada Brahman. Sound is the first to appear in universal creation. The worshipping the Divine Mother in sound form, will help to understand that is all in this universe. Repeated recitation of Her names let the devotee to understand that She lives within him. This is one of the better methods of worshipping the Divine Mother.

 

The reciting of Her names done correctly means the best worship of Her; and Her Nada rupa is understood better. Sound and the Brahman are the same. Para, Pashyanti,Madhyama and Vaikhari are four stages of sound.. Between Madhyama and Vaikhari, the sound splits into nine parts. Hreem is the first bija in Vaikhari. The universe arouse as sound or Pranava, the syllable AUM (pronounced OM). The Divine Mother is the embodiment of AUM. Three functions of universe are represented in Akara, Ugara and Mahara. They are, namely, creation, sustaining and dissolution.

 

Tantra satra says, “There are eight notes (varnas) above bindu of the bija syllables such as “hrim”. They are ardhacandra, rodhini, nada, nadanta, sakti, vyapika, samana and unmani.

 

Sri Narayana guru in Kalikanataka says, “Salutations to You, who are the essence of the nadabindu, who has no end, whose holy feet are worshipped by Narada and other great sages”.

 

“The worshippers meditate on Her, who is seated on nadabindu which is like thousand Suns; this resembles like the filament of the lotus surrounded by innumerable cities and is situated above rodhini” according to Mahasvacchanda Tantra.

 

The Goddess Sarasvathi Devi

with Veena sounding.

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 19 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar. 

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 298: Shri Narayani (OM nArAyaNyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is female part (sakti) of the Lord Narayanan (Mahavishnu). 

Supreme Self Shiva and Mahavishnu act through the Divine Mother as Narayani. Brother Narayanan and His younger Sister the Divine Mother (Parvathi) are having the same form; She is called Narayani. She is also known as Vaishnavi is the consort of Lord Mahavishnu. 

Narayanan also means that He is in five elements (earth, heat, wind, sky and water) forms. 

Spider builds its nest from its own body yarn and lives in it. Similarly, the Brahman lives in five worldly elements created by Herself. This is true for the Divine Mother through Her unison with Shiva. So She is named Narayani. 

Narayanan also means Shiva and Mahalakshmi. Vishnu’s younger Sister is Narayani (Namam 280 “Padma nabha sahodari” with the meaning that the Divine Mother is the Vishnu’s sister). She is  Shiva’s sakti, Narayani. 

During pralaya due to the steaming clouds the universe is filled with water. This water is dried up with Rudra’s (Sun’s) heat. The Universal re-creation process starts. Sky, wind and agni. Later water and earth come up. This process is contained in Narayanan; His sister the Divine Mother is created the Brahma to do the re-creation of the universe. 

There is no difference between Narayanan and the Divine Mother. She is Shiva’s left half as in Ardhanarisvara. She is also the Sankaranarayanan and Hariharan as She is the female form of Narayanan. 

During the process of getting Amirtham (nectar) from the sea, Narayanan deceived the asurars (evil forces). He also took female form, with the Divine Mother’s blessings; to reach Shiva as had been recorded in Soundarya Lahari by sage Adi Shankara. 

Nara is water; ayana is residence or abode; Narayani is the one who has Her residence in water. 

The Divine Mother is considered identical to Lakshmi, Sarasvathi and Parvathi depending upon the context of reference. Nara also means the Self-Knowledge. So Narayani is the seat of Self-Knowledge. She is the one, who established in Self-Knowledge or Brahman. In Her, there is no difference between the adhara (support) and the adheya (the supported). Both are the Divine Mother Herself. 

Narayani resides in Nara and creates both men (Nara) and women. She is also in the female form of Narayana (Mahavishnu). 

The Mahavishnu / Narayanan/ Venkatachalapathi,

the elder brother of the Divine Mother.

 

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 18 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

3.       The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar.

4.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EoRFDzDoU&t=7s 

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 297: Shri Hari Brahmendra sevita (OM haribrahmendrasevitAyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother is worshipped and served by Brahma, Vishnu and Indra. 

It is customary to think that the glories of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Indra are all got from the Divine Mother. They are separate deities but their saktis and powers are all got from the Divine Mother; they all worship Her to perform their assigned tasks well. 

The Sricakra is a city. Between the fourteenth and fifteenth walls of the city, Indra and other guardians of the world reside; between sixteenth and seventeenth walls resides Brahma; and between seventeenth and eighteenth walls is the Vishnu’s residence. Each of them worships the Divine Mother from His place of residence.

 The Divine Mother resides in central nada Bindu,

other deities residing in their respective places in the Sricakra

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 17 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

3.       The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar.

4.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EoRFDzDoU&t=7s 

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 296: Shri Anadi nidhana (OM anAdinidhanAyai namaH)

In Namams 275 to365, the Divine Mother’s  many forms providing benefits to Her devotees in great details are discussed. 

The Divine Mother has neither a beginning nor an end, meaning that She is there forever. 

The embodied soul essentially takes a new body to settle its earlier birth karma balances. It goes through death to leave its last birth. By this process, the soul matures in its state to reach the Brahman. The Divine Mother is eternal not having any Samsara Sagara for Herself. She is there always. So She is called Anadi Nidhana. 

As we have been saying, there is no beginning or end to the Divine Mother; no one can understand Her fully. No one has ever seen Her beginning or end. All creatures are created by Her; it is impossible to understand Her fully, who is the root cause of the universe. One can only guess that She has no births and deaths unlike for any universal creature. It is customary to take that She Herself has started the universe which is confirmed by many Upanishads. 

The word Nidhana is a kind of blockage to the Divine Mother worshipping. It can mean death or the type of death for universal creatures.  As explained earlier, Vararuci system of numbering indicated “adi” stands for number eighty. This Namam can mean that the Divine Mother uses one of eighty causes of deaths for the devotees. The devotee, who is mortal, returns to worship the Divine Mother to become immortal. 

Of these eighty types twenty eight are Vadha (killing) types, the rest are Pasa (bondage and or rope) types.The Vishnu Purana says, “Egoism and self-conceit cause twenty eight vadha types of deaths.” Linga Purana says, “The fifty two Pasa deaths are due to knots of avidya ignorance”. 

The Divine Mother protects Her devotees from above both kinds of harm. Even for the fearless worshippers residing in forests with many cruel animals around them, the sole refuse is the Divine Mother and their unshaken faith in Her protection. 

Goddess Durgha, the protector.

C  N Nachiappun          

Singapore, 16 November 2020.

 

References:

1.       The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.       Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar