LalithA SahasranAma [683] sobhanAsulabhAgatih

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sobhanAsulabhAgatih : The right path and easily attained.

 

SobhanA, salvation, etc.; sulabhA, easy modes of worship; gati, result

or means. The Visva says, "Gati mean road, state, knowledge, journey

and means". The KUrma Pr. says, "She alone is the hightest goal [gati]

of movements of all creatures"

 

Some divide this into two names, namely, "the auspicious path"

[sobhanA gatih] and "easy path" {sulabhA gatih) to avoid the

repetition of the word sobhanA [of 462]. Some take the second name

as "not easily attainable" because there is no return from that state

which puts an end to birth. ThebrahmA Pr says, "Trisati, 112]: "The

fifteen-syllabled mantra is to be attained by him alone whose present

birth is his last, or by Samkara himself".

 

Or, asulabhA gati, the attainment of human birth, etc.which are very

difficult to get, and sobhanA, these become good by worshipping Devi.

The De. BhAg Pr. says, "The births are in vain of those men who do not

listen to the BhAgavata, those who do not worship the ancient Prakrti

[Devi] and who do not feed the terrestrial gods" The Vi. BhAg. Pr.

also in the second part adds, "the ancient Person" Some read 462 and

463 as one, divide this into three as sobhanA, sulabhA and gatih.

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

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She is the esiest path to Self-Realization.

 

NOTE: Some commentartors divide this nama into three names, i.e.,

(1) ShobhanA; (2) SulabhA; and (3) GatiH.

 

- Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on Sri Lalita Sahasranama,

1962

 

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy

wrote:

>

>

> sobhanAsulabhAgatih : The right path and easily attained.

>

> SobhanA, salvation, etc.; sulabhA, easy modes of worship; gati,

result

> or means. The Visva says, "Gati mean road, state, knowledge,

journey

> and means". The KUrma Pr. says, "She alone is the hightest goal

[gati]

> of movements of all creatures"

>

> Some divide this into two names, namely, "the auspicious path"

> [sobhanA gatih] and "easy path" {sulabhA gatih) to avoid the

> repetition of the word sobhanA [of 462]. Some take the second name

> as "not easily attainable" because there is no return from that

state

> which puts an end to birth. ThebrahmA Pr says, "Trisati,

112]: "The

> fifteen-syllabled mantra is to be attained by him alone whose

present

> birth is his last, or by Samkara himself".

>

> Or, asulabhA gati, the attainment of human birth, etc.which are

very

> difficult to get, and sobhanA, these become good by worshipping

Devi.

> The De. BhAg Pr. says, "The births are in vain of those men who do

not

> listen to the BhAgavata, those who do not worship the ancient

Prakrti

> [Devi] and who do not feed the terrestrial gods" The Vi. BhAg.

Pr.

> also in the second part adds, "the ancient Person" Some read 462

and

> 463 as one, divide this into three as sobhanA, sulabhA and gatih.

>

>

> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

>