Author: Swami Nityananda

Publisher: Shanti Mandir

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781732142053

The hymn, Sri Lalitambika-Sahasra-nama-Stotra, forms a part of the instructions Bhagawan Hayagriva communicated to Maharshi Agastya. The hymn is given in the Brahmanda-puruna and is used in the ceremony honoring Sri Vidya and as an independent spiritual practice for attaining the four objectives of human life. If Sri Lalitambika-Sahasra-nama-Stotra recitation and the Sri Lalita-sahasranamavalih worship are performed, then the ceremony honoring Sri Vidya is effective and the rewards include curing all diseases and increasing all wealth, but the main purpose is the attainment of beatitude. Sri Lalita-sahasranamavalih is the list of 1000 names from the Lalita-sahasranama, describing her various forms, aspects and functions. It is in honor of the Goddess Lalita Ambika. Lalita means the playful one. Her play is creation and the functions of the universal energy. Ambika means the mother, the one who sustains. This text depicts the external and internal beauty of Lalita. As one starts internalizing the process, one begins to see the beauty within oneself and then the entire external world becomes beautiful as well. The Sahasranama also talks about the Goddess in the form of Sri Chakra or Sri Vidya and as Kundalini, the energy within.