Lalitōpākhyāna drawing by Arghya Dipta The Lalitōpākhyāna, which is found in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, is a text containing 40 Chapters and comprising about 3000 verses. It is a dialogue between Hayagrīva...

150. Niravadyā No one can point out his finger at Devi and say [that there’s] the fault in Her. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commentar...

149. Nityabuddhā She is fully awakened at all times. Consciousness does not subside during the waking, dreaming or sleeping states. If the consciousness was not awakened during the sleeping states, th...

148. Nityaśuddhā She is forever pure. She cannot be contaminated by anything. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasr...

147. Nirāśrayā There is no support for this world. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)

146. Niṣprapañcā There is no world. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)

145. Nirvikārā Not subject to change. The dynamic and the static are one and the same. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commentary on Lali...

144. Nityamuktā She is ever free to think, will, and act in any manner She pleases, totally unrestrained. Just as in an individual there is a total liberty to think, so is there a total liberty in Dev...

143. Nirupaplavā Uplava means a catastrophe. There are no catastrophes in Devi. Entire worlds may be born and destroyed in the mind of Devi. It is all a child's play. There is no pain, there is no cat...

142. Niṣkāmā She is desire itself. Desire itself will not have a desire. Hence Devi has no desire. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript (an incomplete commen...

141. Śāntā She is peace personified. The nature of bliss in its ultimate closest explanation appears to be utter tranquility and peace. Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" T...

140. Niṣkalā She has no rays coming out of Her. Her Māyā Śakti is of the same stuff as Herself and it feels Herself everywhere. Therefore there can be no projection. Projection implies a distance. Sin...

139. Nirguṇā While Devi appears to have the three dimensions of desire, knowledge and action, in reality, She is the world of all these characteristics. The world is ephemeral as long as desires exist...

138. Nirākulā Devi is unperturbed, vibrationless. How can the Universe which is so full [of] vibrations of all sorts be called vibrationless? In order to transcend the dualities induced by vibrations,...

137. Nirākārā Devi has no form. Quite often the devotee is confused by the occurrence of words of completely opposite meanings at different places in the Lalitā Sahasranāma. How can opposites describe...

136. Nityā Devi is permanent. Although we do speak of the appearance and disappearance of forms of Devi as we have explained earlier, all the transitory phenomenon are also permanent to a transcendent...

135. Nirmalā Devi is free from all impurities. The possibility of an impurity arises only when a pure entity is getting mixed up with another impurity, which is not pure by definition. What is happeni...

134. Nirlepā The word lepana means anointing, like anointing a perfume on one's body. Devi does not get coupled to anything. She does not anoint anything. She does not contact anything. She produces t...

133. Nirañjanā Devi inherently has no coloration, no bias of any sort. What makes of this colourful universe around us? Where are these colours? The atom which emits ?a like? quantum has no colour. Wh...

132. Nirādhārā She has no support. She supports everything else in the world. For the devotee who is trying to realise himself, all paths can lead only up to a certain point and no further. From then ...