Samarasyaparayana (सामरस्यपरायणा, IAST: Sāmarasyaparāyaṇā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who is utterly devoted to the state of equal flavour”. Sāmarasya means the state of equal or unified taste—the non-dual experience of all existence as one—and parāyaṇā means supremely devoted to or absorbed in; this name names the Goddess as the living embodiment of perfect non-dual equanimity.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Sāmarasya is a key term in Kashmiri Śaivism and Nātha Tantra for the condition of the adept who tastes all experience—pleasure and pain, sacred and mundane—as a single undifferentiated flavour of consciousness. As Sāmarasyaparāyaṇā, Lalitā is not merely a teacher of this state but its very substance; Her being is the taste of unity. Devotion to Her gradually dissolves the devotee's sense of fragmentation into the same sweet equanimity.

This philosophically dense compound is primarily a contemplative epithet for advanced Śrīvidyā practitioners; pronounced saa-ma-RAS-ya-pa-RAA-ya-naa, eight syllables.

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Scriptural source

Samarasyaparayana appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Samarasyaparayana aligns with the Shatabhisha nakshatra, under the Kumbha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 1.