24/07/2026
🌹Ananda nilaya🌹
Maa Paradevatha is the sum total of the bliss of Gods. She is Brahman.
She is the fountain head of Ananda. The three gunas – shrushti, sthithi, lay, are under her control.
Ananda is a state of a fulfilled mind. A state of nirguna is where you need nothing, or express any desire.
To attain eternal Ananda, one needs to remain in the same state of “no-desire.”
Chidananda emerges within you. It is you who has to work to achieve this.
Patanjali codifies eight ways to achieve this target. These are different steps in the ladder to realize.
Yama (moral discipline), Niyama (observances), Asana (physical postures), Pranayama (breathing techniques), Pratyahara (sense withdrawal), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (absorption or meditation) and Samadhi (enlightenment or bliss).
The easiest way to attain bliss is para bhakthi and understanding Maa.
If one dedicates his/her life to Maa, and see her in everything, it is the real bliss. Niranthara nama smarana is the amrutha that makes the devotee eternal.
Sriman Narayana is also addressed as Ananda-nilaya Vasa.
In the Kanakadara stotram, Adi Sankara says… Ameelithaksha madhigamya mudha Mukundam Ananda kanda manimesham ananga thanthram,
The para ananda comes from Devi and Narayana. In another place he says Ananda hethur adhikam…
In the Lalitha sahasranama, Maa Tripurasundari is thus known as “Swathmananda lavi bhootha brahmady anandha santhathi.”
The bliss is the penultimate stage of the final salvation. Such a sort of bliss can be experienced only during the last stages of merger into the Brahman, the final stages of liberation, the state of kaivalya.
Who else can give this state of mind and bliss other than Maa. Vagdevis hence call Maa as Kaivalya pada dayini.
She is the witness of the universe. This is the unique quality of the Brahman without attributes, the supreme form of the Brahman.
Moola-prakruthi nama provides the reasoning for the previous nama. She is the Supreme ruler (Paramesvari) because she is the root of origin.
Prakṛti at best can be explained as Nature. It can also be called Maya. It holds the three guṇas - Sattva, rajas, and thamas. It is the kinetic form of energy. Without this energy the creation can never take place.
Prakṛti in its un-manifested form is called Avyaktha (next nama). The pure soul stands veiled by the effects of maya.
Because she is mulaprakṛthi and avykata, she is all pervading (Vyapini). She is also called eka elsewhere, because she is the one who is all pervading, the nature of the Brahman.
