Sahasranama position 1040 of the 1,072 names

Rakta Pujaka Sarvasva

रक्त पूजका सर्वस्व

Rakta Pūjakā Sarvasva

What Rakta Pujaka Sarvasva means

Rakta Pujaka Sarvasva is name 1040 in the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama, the 1,072-name devotional text to Maa Kali. She who is everything to those worshippers who offer even their life-force to her.

Also spelled

  • RaktaPujakaSarvasva
  • Source transliteration: RAKTA PUJAKA SARVA-SVA

Sanskrit names travel into English in several romanizations. This page keeps the common spelling, the IAST form, and the source transliteration together so the same name is discoverable under each spelling readers use.

Meaning and elaboration

Meaning: She who is everything to those worshippers who offer even their life-force to her.

Elaboration

Rakta Pujaka Sarva-Sva is a deep and demanding name of Mahakali. It presents her as the all-in-all of those who worship her through total offering. In this context, Rakta carries the sense of blood, life-force, and the innermost vitality of embodied existence. Pujaka means worshipper, and Sarva-Sva means one's whole wealth, one's entire being, one's all.

The Fulness of Offering This name points beyond external ritual into complete surrender to the Divine Mother. The worshipper does not come with a partial gift. Body, mind, passion, vitality, ego, and the sense of separate self are all laid before her. The offering is total because Mahakali is approached here as the Supreme Reality, the one before whom nothing can finally be withheld.

The Final Recipient of All Life Rakta Pujaka Sarva-Sva also suggests that all offerings ultimately end in her. She is not merely one deity among others receiving devotion. She is the ground into which all life returns. Every act of worship, every sacrifice, every birth, every struggle, and every death reaches completion in her. In that sense, she is the final destination of all existence, the one in whom all phenomena are gathered back.

The Dissolution of Separate Identity On the inner plane, this name points to the dissolution of the individual Jiva into the universal reality symbolized by Mahakali. This is the surrender of the illusion of separateness. What is sacrificed is not only outer substance, but the claim of the ego to stand apart from the Divine. In Pralaya, the great dissolution, all fragmented existence returns to its undivided source. So this name reveals Kali as the one for whom the worshipper offers everything, until only the true Self remains.

Text and sources

The name list follows the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama as compiled for this project. The English meaning and elaboration are interpretive notes for devotional study, not a translation of a single critical edition.

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