160. Niścintā
She has no worries of any kind.
People think that by doing karmas oriented for the welfare of everyone, such as distributing wealth or doing good deeds, one gets liberated. This is not so. The śruti says:
“Na karmaṇā na prajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvamānaśuḥ.”
This means, not by good actions, not by people, not by wealth, is the liberation achieved. Only by sacrifice is liberation achieved.
The word ‘tyāga’ means sacrifice. The nature of this ‘tyāga’, of this sacrifice, is described in the following words of Ātmayajña starting with “tatsaiyam viduṣo yagasa…”1. One has to sacrifice one's own desires in the fire of his own consciousness. That is the way, that is the way. There is no other way.
161. Nirahaṅkārā
She has no ego. She does not do anything because of Her ego.
162. Nirmohā
She is not deluded.
163. Mohanāśinī
She eliminates the delusion in the devotee.
164. Nirmamā
She has no such things as “mine”.
165. Mamatāhantrī
She destroys the notions of “mine”.
Why is it necessary not to have the sense of something belonging to me? Why is it necessary to destroy the feeling of mine? Suppose we own an object. We can own it thinking that it is ours. We can also own it thinking that it is not ours. Examples of the first category are house, children, furniture, etc. Examples of the second category are the public gardens, air, mountains, lakes, seas, etc.
We suffer agony on being deprived of an object about whom we have the sense of mine. This object is mine. This property is mine. This child is mine. This house is mine. This money is mine. For the objects that are not perceived as mine neither acquisition nor removal brings satisfaction nor constitute a loss. Happiness and misery are consequences of the idea of ownership. Remove that and there will be no misery on their being lost.
166. Niṣpāpā
She has no sin.
Sin and virtue are concepts in the human mind, brought about to establish a certain peace and order in the society or a culture for a temporary period. The tiger kills to eat its food. If murder is a sin, the tiger is a sinner. The tiger is free from sin.
167. Pāpanāśinī
She eliminates sin.
In the fires of knowledge all sins are burnt. By once saying the name of God all sins past, present and future are burnt forever.
What is sin? It is a feeling of guilt associated with an action or a thought. If an action is performed without any thought of it later on, that action cannot be considered to be the sin. Action by itself is neither sin nor virtue. It is made the sin or a virtue by a subsequent process associated with it.
168. Niṣkrodhā
The Devi has no anger. She kills, but does not kill in anger. An action-oriented desire frustrated from achieving its purpose becomes anger. There are two ways of overcoming anger:
The first way is to eliminate the action-oriented desire and to give it a mental orientation so that the possibility of frustration is eliminated. Since there is no frustration, there can be no anger flowing from it.
The second solution is to eliminate desire itself. This is burning the root of the problem of anger. Sages achieved this after long and hard practice. It is easy for some people to do this but it is extremely difficult for some others to do this.
As long as one sees, hears, or interacts with the world through any sensory channel, so long do desire after desire keep on coming one after the other, unendingly like waves of the sea. It is only natural that the desires belong to the nature. Let Her satisfy them then.
169. Krodhaśamanī
Petty desires vanish when one truly knows the greatness of Devi. Then there is only one great desire and that is to become Devi. In this oceanic feeling of oneness with Devi all anger is destroyed.
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