Sri Lalithasahasranamam

 

Sri Lalithasahasranamam

We revere Sri Lalithasahasranamam and SriVishnunsahasranamam as the most sacred of the threads of thousand names attributed to our beloved deities..

Amba Tripurasundari is the beloved of many devotees of all the ages and there are many Sahasranamas written in Her honour..

But the Lalitha Sahasranamam coming as the concluding part of the Brahmandapuranam where the Last forty chapters of the Uthara Khandam shine like a garland named as the celebrated Sri Lalithopakhyanam.

Towards the end of Lalithopakhyaanam, three chapters give the immortal gem of Lalitha Sahasranamam as if forming a shining pendant to the garland that is Lalithopakhyaanam..

Primarily the Sahasranamam describes the thousand most glorious names of Rajarajesvari,the Mahatripurasundari..

However, the Vishnupuranam and Srimad Bhagavatham itself state that, the last of the Mahapuranas that Vyasa wrote was the Brahmandapuranam and the episode of Matha Lalitha covers the final 43 chapters of this Puranam.

Therefore, scholars are of the view that all the wisdom and philosophy that all the eighteen Mahapuranas contain are seen to have been presented as a highly concentrated capsule of Amrutham in Lalithasahasranamam.

Therefore a devotee who studies this hymn on Lalithadevi, and contemplates on the content of each name, each letter and syllable with deep introspection and reverence, in addition to being blessed with the mother with all that is good and required for him in this world and in the eternal life, would become an adept in the nuances of the philosophy and content of what we now see as Hinduism.

Mother Lalithambika is Avyaajakarunaamoorthy.. the embodiment of mercy without any reservations or hold-back..

People capable of making gifts do so with a lot of strings attached and without concealing their arrogance and without failing to rub in their superiority..

However this Lady Lalitha, is our Mother, and no mother would feel arrogant and boastful when they tend their children.

She is our mother and we can ask for anything from her without hesitation..

And she cannot help granting us our desires, if she can manage, and there is hardly anything that she cannot manage..

Therefore in our relation to the Mother, we are always in a win-win situation.

True, she will provide for us with all our needs even without asking.

Nevertheless, she is a mother with innumerable children, all of us.

We know how a mother with even a single naughty toddler struggles so much..

Therefore why don’t we help her by just asking what we want and only what really want..?

This is my introspection after falling in utter surrender at the feet of the Lord of Lords Krishna, and my dear Mother Lalithambika.. Mahatripurasundari.. Rajarjeswari..

The great Vidyopaasaka Bhaskararaya has written a great commentary on this Mahamantram.