- The Mother of all.
- 'Ma' means to measure so Srimata could also be referred to as one who has limitless
- 'Sri' here also means Lakhshmi/Saraswati and also their attributes namely prosperity /success/beauty etc...
- Srimata could also mean the mother or the progenitor of the attributes of lakhshmi/Saraswati.
Mother is the first manifestation of power and is considered a higher idea than father. The name of mother brings the idea of Shakti, Divine energy and omnipotence. The baby believes its mother to be all-powerful, able to do anything. The Divine Mother is the Kundalini sleeping in us; without worshipping Her, we can never know ourselves. All merciful, all-powerful, omnipresent - these are attributes of the Divine Mother. She is the sum total of the energy in the Universe.Every manifestation of power in the universe is Mother. She is Life, She is Intelligence, She is Love. She is in the universe, yet separate from it. She is a person, and can be seen and known .
2. SRI MAHARAJNI
- Great Empress of the whole Universe
Queen of the universe SHE alone Safeguards this universe! Goddess, the Queen of all that is movable and unmovable!she alone has become the support of the world,Because she do subsist in the form of earth!By HER who exists in the form of water, all this universe is filled,she inviolable in her valor; she is the Gem of the universe, she is Illusion sublime! All this world has been bewitched, She,the Goddess; indeed when attained, is the cause of the final emancipation for existence on Earth!...
03. SRIMAT SIMHASANESHWARI
- 'Simhasanam' means the Lion throne hence the ruler on the Lion throne.
- Devi's vahanam is a lion hence this name could also be referred as the queen seated on a lion'
- 'Simha' means pain ; 'asana' means destroying ; 'eswari' means powerful, hence this name means the powerful one who destroys all pain/desires.
"From the unreal lead me to the Real, from darkness lead me to Light, from death lead me to Immortality." -Brih. Up. 1. 3. 28.
As we ask her to lead us into the real cutting our desires and falseness we should also understand this point.Everyone is marked by the general character of the struggle to become infinitely perfect. This Infinite Being is the highest Truth. This is the Goal of the life of all. The Upanishads stress in a hundred ways upon the need for this integral knowledge of Reality. There is nothing greater than or equal to the knowledge of the Atman. Atmalabhat na param vidyate.
"This Atman, which is free from evil, undecaying, deathless, sorrow less, hunger less, thirst less, whose desire is Truth, whose will is Truth - That should be searched after, That should be known. He obtains all worlds and all desires who has known and who has realised That Atman. -Chh. Up. VIII. 7. 1.All actions are done for the sake of the Self, not for external persons and things. It is not the existence of joy in the object as such that brings pleasure to the individual enjoying it, but the cooling of the fire of craving that is brought about by its contact with a particular object which is specially demanded by that special mode of desire generated in the ego-consciousness. The satiation is caused by a temporary turning back of the mind to the Self. The whole of the happiness of the world is, thus, purely negative, an avoiding of the unpleasant, and not the acquirement of any real, positive joy. This positive bliss is found only in the Self, the root of existence. The bustle of life's activity is a struggle to respond to the cry of the anxious ego which has lost itself in the wilderness of its separation from the Eternal Principle. The grieving self bound by fetters in the prison of life is ransomed by the knowledge of the non-dual nature of Existence. She reminds us of this when seated herelf on the throne that these fears ,ego,has to be crushed and conquered before the liberation of the mind.
04. CIDAGNIKUNDASAMBHUTA
One who was born from the altar (kunda) of the fire (agni) of consciousness
One who understands the refinement of consciousness reaches her,because she has risen from that consciousness and it is achieved my knowing one self."The yogi realizes that the knower, the instrument of knowing and the known are one, himself, the seer. Like a pure transparent jewel, he reflects an unsullied purity.With refinement, the consciousness becomes highly sensitive, choiceless, stainless and pure. The perceiver, the instrument of perception and the perceived object, clearly reflected, are nothing but the seer. Like an object reflected flawlessly in a clean mirror, the perceiver, the perceived and the instrument are reflected in one. This transparent reflecting quality of consciousness is termed samapatti, which means assumption of the original form of the seer.Patanjali’s description of samapatti underlines the subtle distinction between yoga, samadhi and samapatti. Yoga is the employment of the means to reach samadhi. Samadhi is profound meditation, total absorption. Samapatti is the balanced state of mind of the seer who, having attained samadhi, radiates his own pure state. Yoga and samadhi, in other words, can be regarded as practices; samapatti the state towards which they lead.When all the fluctuations of mind’s sattvic, rajasic and tamasic nature reach an end, mind ceases to gather and transmit information, and citta is like the still, clear water of a calm lake. It transforms itself to the level of the seer, and reflects its purity without refraction. Like a transparent jewel, it becomes at once the knower, the instrument of knowing and the object known. Thus the sadhaka experiences the true state of the soul."This transparent state of mind understands the sense of bliss which is the path to her.
05. DEVAKARYASAMUDHYATA
One who manifested herself to fulfill the wishes of the Deva's.Every manifestation of Devi is called her birth since she herself if someone who is not born. One who promotes the cause of Divine forces.
In the New Age we break free of centuries of false doctrines, destructive indoctrinations, absurd ideas, and children’s stories about God, education, medicine, and love. The corrupt foundations of false society crumble. This time of crises is not the signal of the end of the world. What comes is not the end, but the beginning. The dream humanity has lived for centuries ends and we awaken to a bright new day.Our individual worth comes from inside, from what we have inside, through our development, our evolution, and what we can give to society. Now our drastic differences dissolve and we integrate into the whole. We integrate and unify with the energy of the universe, with the great cosmic spirit.This change in perception is brought out by her and she makes us evolve and she promotes this in all ways.The manifestation is of many folds,and we will look into it as we go along.
To be continued......
