A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -19 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Sloka, is the most common Sanskrit meter and is a descendant of the older Vedic gayatri
The sloka, meaning 'song', although metric, is not considered poetic.
It functions more as the equivalent to Western prose with lines and meter and
is often used in narratives or epics.

The defining features of the sloka are:
stanzaic, written in any number of couplets made up of 2 hemistiches.
The hemistiches can be broken into 4 lines or padas creating quatrains,4 lines or padas
syllabic, either 2 lines of 16 syllables each or 4 hemistiches of 8 syllables each.
metric, alternate hemistiches of trochaic and iambic patterns.

The following verses are my own work, a prayer, based on the great slokha 'Lalitha Sahasranamam'
where the meaningful thousand names of Adi Para Sakthi(primordial cosmic Energy)
are narrated.These verses are not literal or exact translation of the slokha.But I referred to
the translation of the great slokha by Mr.P. R. Ramachander

(Please read the previous parts of this series before reading this)


55 Thee who dispels gloomy darkness
Who clears thy bhaktas' ignorance
So art thee called Tamopaha
Thee the form of pristine Wisdom

Thee who is so known as Chiti
Thee the meaningful 'Thou art All'
Thee who's the truth of the word'Tat'
So thee, Tat pada lakshyartha

For thou art all about all, so
Chideka rasa rupini
Who is the bliss of pure wisdom ...
Whose bliss is a vast ocean while

Brahma's and others'is a fleck
So art thee known by the great name
Svatmanandalavi bhuta
Brahmadyananda santati

The form and name of Transcendence
Thee the Transcendence called Para
Thee the form of inward vision
The form of inward cognizance

Thou art Pratyak chiti rupa
Thee who perceives all in thyself
Thee who's the inaudible sound
Thee who's so known as Pashyanti

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


56 Thee the supreme Queen of all gods
The source of all godly powers
So thou art Para devata
Thee the middle support of sound

So art thee known as Madhyama
Thee who is the audible sound
So thou art Vaikhari roopa
In the pool of thy bhakta's hearts

Thee a swan.So's the pretty name
Bhaktha manasa hamsikha..
The life source of Kameswara
Thee be, so art known by the name


Kameshwara prana nadi
Mother, thee the watcher of all
Who keeps a watch on all our deeds
So art thee known as Kruthagna

Thee seated on kama peeta
God of love Manmatha worships
So thou art Kama poojitha
Thee the essence of complete love

The complete persona of love
Symbol of connubial love
So art thee known by the great name
Srungara rasa sampoorna

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


57 Victorious thee is Jaya
On the Jalandhara peeta
Seated, Vishnumukhi thee who
Purifies well breath and body

Who is the purest of the pure
So thee.. Jalandhara sthitha
Centered in the crinion who's
The power of agna chakra

Thou art so known by the great name
Odyana peeta nilaya
Centered in the srichakra thee..
Bindu mandala vaasini

Oh thee, divine our sweet Mother
Thou art beautiful the bestest
Thou art our brave queen the bestest
Thou art our Wisdom the bestest

Thou art our Strength sole the bestest
The Support for mind the bestest
The Support for life the bestest
Thou art all Force the mightiest

So to thee Mother, namaste
The Power of all, namaste
The causer of all, namaste
Creatrix of all, namaste

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch

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Note: Translation by Mr.P.R Ramachander
Naamaas361-380
* 361 * Thamopaha - She who destroys darkness
* 362 * Chithi - She who is personification of wisdom
* 363 * Thatpada lakshyartha - She who is the indicative meaning of the word 'thath'
which is the first word of vedic saying 'that thou art'
* 364 * Chidekara swaroopini - She who is wisdom through out
* 365 * Swathmananda lavi bhootha brahmadyanantha santhathi - She who in her ocean of wisdom
makes Wisdom about Brahmam look like a wave
* 366 * Paraa - She who is the outside meaning of every thing
* 367 * Prathyak chidi roopa - She who makes us look for wisdom inside
* 368 * Pasyanthi - She who sees everything within herself
* 369 * Para devatha - She who gives power to all gods
* 370 * Madhyama - She who is in the middle of everything
* 371 * Vaikhari roopa - She who is of the form with words
* 372 * Bhaktha manasa hamsikha - She who is like a swan in the lake called mind
* 373 * Kameshwara prana nadi - She who is the life source of Kameswara
* 374 * Kruthagna - She who watches all actions of every one or She who knows all
* 375 * Kama poojitha - She who is being worshipped by the god of love
in the kama giri peeta of Mooladhara chakra-Kama
* 376 * Srungara rasa sampoorna - She who is lovely
* 377 * Jayaa - She who is personification of victory
* 378 * Jalandhara sthitha - She who is on Jalandhara peetha or She who is purest of the pure
* 379 * Odyana peeta nilaya - She who is on Odyana peetha or She who lives in orders
* 380 * Bindu mandala vaasini - She who lives in the dot in the center of Srichakra