“Blessed are the few that serve Thee, the flood of consciousness and bliss, having, as thy abode, the mattress of Paramshiva, laid on the couch of the multi triangular form of Shiva, in the mansion built of Chintamani stones, attached to the pleasure garden of Nipa trees, in the isle of gems, surrounded by an avenue of Kalpa trees and situated amidst the ocean of nectar”
Adi Shankaracharya, The Saundaralahari – 8th shloka
Chintamani-Grhantastha
She dwells in the mansion bedecked with wish fulfilling precious stones
Chandra-Mandala-Madhyaga
She is in the centre of the orb of the moon, meaning also Sahasrara
Sudha-Sagara-Madhyastha
She is in the centre of the ocean of nectar. She is the abode of bliss
Srngara-Rasa-Sampurna
She pervades the plenitude of the bliss contained in the petals of the king chakra
Ananda-Kalika
She dwells in everybody as the source of all bliss or enjoyment
Maharatih
The great bliss
Mada-Shalini
Full of bliss
Mada-Patala-Ganda-Bhuh
Her eyes turn inwards in enjoyment of spiritual ecstasy
Brahmananda
The bliss of brahma. There are various grades of bliss and this is the highest
Yogananda
The bliss resulting from Yoga. The bliss of Turya state
Nandini
One who enjoys
Paramananda
The ultimate bliss
Dadimikusuma-Prabha
Brilliantly red as immersed in Brahmananda
Sudha-Srutih
Ambrosial stream or flow of bliss resulting from meditation on the Goddess in Sahahsrara
Sudhasarabhi-Varshini
She rains the quintessence of nectar.
The devotee feels incomparable bliss in this state.
Here culminates the Kundalini-sadhana
Sukhakari
She confers unbroken stream of bliss
Sukhaprada
Confers the bliss of liberation
Nirvana-Sukha-Dayini
Giver of the unequalled bliss of liberation
Kadambari-Priya
Fond of honey which refers to the bliss of Liberation
Kulamrtaika-Rasika
She is and gives the bliss if the secret nectar
Bhava-Dava-Sudha-Vrstih
Ambrosial rain which extinguishes the forest fire of samsara,
the cycle of births and deaths
Bhakta-Chitta-Keki-Ghana-Gahana
Just as a peacock dances with pleasure at the sight of the clouds,
even so, she makes the mind of the devotee dance with bliss
Paramoda
Of the form of ultimate bliss of realization
Madhumati
She is of the form of the consciousness of bliss
Priyamkari
One who grants things dearest to her devotees
Premananda
Of the form of bliss that is contained in divine love
Pustha
Well nourrished by Brahmananda
Nandi-Vidya
The knowledge that produces Ananda or bliss
Sada-Tushta
Always blissful and satisfied and conferring this state
in the mind of the evolved devotee
Kshipra-Prasadini
Who showers Her grace on Her devotees very quickly
Sarmada
Bestower of happiness or eternal bliss
Sasvataishvarya
She is always the giver of the eternal kingdom or dominion of bliss
Bhogini
Who enjoys happiness
Ramani
Delightful to Her devotees
Chideka-Rasa-Rupini
Experience of the attributeless consciousness, which is also experienced
as a matter of bliss, She is the bliss of reality at its core
Madhvi-Panalasa
Inebriated with the drinking of ambrosia
Varuni-Mada-Vivhala
Drunk with the juice of the thousand petal lotus
Svatmananda-Lavibhuta Brahmadyananda-Santaith
All the bliss enjoyed by the beings from Brahma downwards put together
is but a drop in the ocean of Bliss enjoyed by Herself.
Chideka-Rasa-Rupini
Of the form of the experience of the nectar of attributeless consciousness which
Sat Chit Ananda
Truth, consciousness and bliss, the nature of the divine Self or Atma.
Satya-Jnanananda-Rupa
Expressed in the form of bliss that flows from the knowledge of the pure truth
Satyananda-Swarupini
Of the nature of Truth and Bliss
Shanta
Peaceful or waveless ocean of nectar
Svabhava-Madhura
Natural sweetness. She resides in the heart of Her devotees as bliss or Ananda
Rasajna
She is the power behind all modes of enjoyment and/or She is a lady of taste.
Rasa-Sevadhih
An ocean of celestial bliss
“Having in-filled the pathway of the nadis with the streaming shower of nectar flowing from thy pair of feet, having resumed Thine own position from out of the resplendent lunar regions, and thyself assuming the form of a serpent of three-and-a-half coils, sleepest Thou in the hollow of the Kulakunda”,
Adi Shankaracharya, The Saundaralahari – 10th shloka
IN CONCLUSION…
We can only express that She cannot be expressed, and this too is not entirely correct.The names of the Sahasrarnamam are an expression of the culmination of Upanishadic philosophy as they express how the essential unity becomes multiplicity in the course of its manifestation. The names have been extracted from the the Shri Lalita Sahasrarnamam, as declared by Shri Hayagriva in the Brahmanda Purana, based on the English translation by dr Chaganty Suryanarayanamurthy ,(Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay 1975).
This scholarly work was published in 1975, the blessed year in which the errand traveller from the mountain land placed a call to the Goddess from a house in the vicinity of Holland Park, London. He was invited to come to a lovely white house nestled in the Surrey hills. And so he found and he was found, he was taken, stunnedand immerged in the pond.
William Blake, ‘Milton’(1811) plate 4, lines17-22
“The Surrey hills glow like the clinkers of the furnace;
Lambeth’s ValeWhere Jerusalem’s foundations began;
where they were laid in ruins
Where they were laid in ruins from every Nation and Oak Groves rooted
Dark gleams before the Furnace-mouth, a heap of burning ashes.
When shall Jerusalem return and overspread all the Nations?
Return: return to Lambeth’s Vale O building of human souls! …”
