Ayyappa Bhagavan's dilemma

 

This is a prayer to Ayyappa bhagavan. This is a sloka with very interesting meaning. I do not know who the author is.

 

Slokam is

 

उमामहम मातरमाह्वयामि
पत्न्य: पित्रुर्मातर एव सर्वा:
कथं नु लक्ष्मीमिति चिन्तयन्तम
शास्तारामीडे सकलार्था सिध्यै:

 

umaamaham maatharmaahvayaami

patnya: pithrurmaathara eva sarva:

katham nu lakshmeemithi chinthayantham

shaasthaarameede skalartha sidhyai:

 

For sakalaartha siddhi I bow to that Saastha, who is in a dilemma about how he will address Mahalakshmi. Ayyappa bhagavan thinks: I can address Parvathi Devi as "mother" because usually father's wife is considered as mother. But my mother is actually Mahavishnu (in the Mohini form). Now Mahalakshmi is my mother Mahavishnu's wife! So how do I address her?

 

Ayaappa's doubt is genuine because his parents are Siva and Vishu in Mohini form. So Parvathi is his father's wife and he finds no problem to call her mother. But he laments that there is no word in any dictionary to address a mother's wife!

 

I read it in collection of  unusual slokaas and thought it is worth sharing.