Kshetra & Lalitha Sahasranamam

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Three names used in the Lalitha Sahasranama are particularly important and significant: Kshetra Svarupa, Kshetresi, Kshetra Kshetrajnapalini

She is of the form of Kshetra, the field. Kshetra represents the 36 categories from Earth to Siva.

Kshetra or the matter is her body. The God of deaths, Siva, is the knower of field, the Kshetrajna. The name Kshetra Kshetrajnapalini indicates that she is not only the protector of matter, but also the protector of the knower of matter.

The Linga Purana says: "The wise call the 24 categories as Kshetra. The enjoyer thereof is Kshetrajna"

Prakriti is unconscious activity and Purusha is inactive consciousness. The body is called the field in which events, such as growth, decline and death take place. The conscious principle is detached and inactive. It is behind all active states as the witness. He is the Kshetrajna, the knower of the field. He is the light of awareness.

The Kshetrajna is the Supreme Lord. From the blade of grass to Brahma, the Creator, He is in all the manifold fields. There is limitation to the fields, but not to their knower.

Kshetrajna is the universal in the individual.

Who is Kshetrapala? Kali was created by Siva in order to slay Darukasura. Though Darukasura was destroyed, Kali's anger, fierceness and insatiability for the gore did not abate. To dispel her anger, Siva assumed the form of a crying infant. When Kali saw the child, her motherhood overcame her. She took the babe into her lap and suckled the child. Siva drank up all her anger along with the milk. This child Siva is called Kshetrapala. Hence she is called Kshetrapala Samarchita.

Dr. Hari