Page 2 - Newsletter May 2019

From The Editor’s Desk

Dear Members, fied in the Lalitha Sahasranamam when

Each of us perceives Bala in our own spe- She wages war with the sons of Bhandasura

cial way. To some, She can be an unjudging and slays them. She also accompanies Lord
friend, while to others, She personifies the Muruga as His ‘vel’, when He sets out to

unconditional love of a mother. To many of vanquish Soorapadman. She is ‘jhangini’,

us, She is the perfect daughter, while to a the swift one, possessing magical powers
few, She may carve the path to moksha. But that make Her omnipresent. So, bringing all

no matter how we experience Her or what these qualities together, who is our

we identify Her with, the common underly- endearing, beautiful, mischievous Bala?
ing feeling that we share is simply the de- In the phalashruti of Bala Sahasranamam,

light in celebrating Bala. Whether we sing Lord Shiva surmises Sri Bala as the one
for our Bala or chant slokas for Her, why is whose divine hands protect us, bestow

it that we feel Her magical presence and au- fortunes, shelters us, forgives us, averts

ra around us? When Goddess Parvati great calamities, cures diseases, and gives
expressed Her desire to Lord Shiva about us happiness and victory. She is the doer of

hearing the thousand names of the most miracles, weeding out the inimical qualities
beautiful one of the three worlds – within us, augmenting our mind and

‘tripura sundari’, Lord Shiva extolled Sri intellect with superior thinking. Lord Shiva

Bala through the Bala Sahasranamam. exalts the Bala Sahasranamam’s manifold
Upon reflecting a little deeper into these benefits and concludes by saying that He

unique descriptions, we can see and has described all the effects of this unique

understand what Lord Shiva has actually one-in-a-million mahamantram, which
intended to convey through the when chanted everyday as an assembly of

sahasranamam. bhaktas, will impart the true purport of this

Of course! She is a beautiful ‘kanya’, the mantram. This Vaikasi Vishakam - the

epitome of ‘mangalam’, always bestowing 18th of May, on Bala’s thirunakshatram, let
welfare on us, the culmination of Lakshmi, us all come together as Balambika Divya

Shakti and Vidya. Of intelligence She is non Sangam’s universal family to celebrate

-paralleled; Her divine hands hold the Bala. May all of us continue to grow
‘pustakam’ and ‘japa mala’, showing us the together as Bala’s devotees and spread Her

path of knowledge. She is the beloved of charm everywhere. May Her temple town of
Shiva and Maheshwari, the sister of Vishnu; Malur forever reverberate with the joyous

She is ‘thristha’, the one who dwells in all chants of Her namavali.

three worlds. She also possesses the Sarvejana Sukhinobhavanthu.
qualities of a warrior, being able to grow

and ascend to formidable forms as

‘bheeshani’, to destroy the vices within
oneself. Her warrior qualities are exempli-

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