

The Sri Sukta is an invocation to Mahalakshmi as the Divinity presiding over all prosperity in every form material and social, as well as spiritual. In this comprehensive attitude of devotion to God, the Satarudriya resembles the description found in the Purusha Sukta. Here the ordinary notions of religion and even of God are lifted from the limitations of human thinking and made to cover the vast variety which God has revealed as all this manifestation. The Satarudriya, which is also known as the Rudra Adhyaya, occurs in the Yajurveda and is a magnificent vision of the Creator of the universe, designated here as Siva or Rudra, in His aspects as an awe inspiring immanence in everything that can be found or even conceived of in creation. These hymns, which are from the original Vedas, represent in quintessence an invocation of the Almighty manifest as Rudra-Siva, Narayana as the Virat-Purusha, and Lakshmi as the Goddess of Prosperity.

Nila Sukta Importance and the purpose of Satarudriya, Purusha, Sri, Narayana Suktams: The Satarudriya, Purusha Sukta, Narayana Sukta and Sri Sukta are generally recited in a series in most of the temples of worship, especially during the performance of the holy ritual of abhisheka.
