A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -14 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)

40 Thee who's the supreme Soul of souls
Who's the cause of deep sleep in all
Who's aware of that in all souls
So is known as Prangyatmika

Thee who is known as Thurya too
Who transcends wake and dream and sleep
Yet stays in Her own blissful trance
Thee who is so known as Thurya

Sarvavastha vivarjitha
Still who's above all conditions
So art thee known by that great name
Thee who's the Maker of the whole

Relentlessly creating all
So thou art called Srishti karthri
For the cause of creating all
Thee who takes the form of Brahma

So art thee called Brahmaroopa
Thou art Gopthri who guards the whole
For that cause thine form, Govinda
Known as Govindaroopini

Who destroys the whole creation
Thee who's so called Samharini
Who so takes the form of Rudra
Thou art so called Rudraroopa

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


41 Thou art Thirodhanakari
For thee do all in concealment
Also Easwari is thy name
For thee art the form of Easwar

Thee the form of Sadashiva
So art thee called Sadashiva
Thee who creates can destroy too
Yet of mercy thee recreates

Thou art so Anugrahada..
Srishtikarthri, Samharini
Govindaroopini more with
Thirodhanakari added

Thy five deeds and names together
Thou art so greatly called by name
Pancha krithya parayana
Who's centered in the solar orb

Thee who is aptly so known as
Bhanu mandala madhyastha
Thou art the spouse of Bhairava
So art thee known as Bhairavi

Thou art great of excellences
So thou art Bhagamalini
Thy tranquil lotus-poise that charms
Aptly names thee Padmasana

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


42 Supremacy is thy virtue
Thou art so called Bhgavathi
Padmanabha sahodari
The sister of Mahavishnu

Such be thou divine names, Mother,
Me, a very tiny droplet
My little psyche and ilk and deeds
So of my little persona...

Who else than thee can salvage me
Ma, awaiting thee for so long
My conceded ignorance long
Imploring my heart for so long

Ho ho, 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
Naamaas261-280


* 261 * Prangnathmika - She who is awake
* 262 * Thurya - She who is in trance
* 263 * Sarvavastha vivarjitha - She who is above all states
* 264 * Srishti karthri - She who creates
* 265 * Brahma roopa - She who is the personification of ultimate
* 266 * Gopthri - She who saves
* 267 * Govinda roopini - She who is of the form of Govinda
* 268 * Samharini - She who destroys
* 269 * Rudhra roopa - She who is of the form of Rudhra
* 270 * Thirodhana kari - She who hides herself from us
* 271 * Eeswari - She who is of the form of easwara
* 272 * Sadashivaa - She who is of the form of Sadashiva
* 273 * Anugrahada - She who blesses
* 274 * Pancha krithya parayana - 'She who is engaged in the five duties of
creation, existence, dissolving, disappearing, and blessing'
* 275 * Bhanu mandala madhyastha - She who is in the middle of the sun's universe
* 276 * Bhairavi - She who is the consort of Bhairava
* 277 * Bhaga malini - She who is the goddess bhaga malini
* 278 * Padmasana - She who sits on a lotus
* 279 * Bhagavathi - She who is with all wealth and knowledge
* 280 * Padmanabha sahodari - She who is the sister of Vishnu