Sahasranama position 678 of the 1,072 names

Vishva Bhogada

विश्व भोगदा

Viśva Bhogadā

What Vishva Bhogada means

Vishva Bhogada is name 678 in the Adya Mahakali Sahasranama, the 1,072-name devotional text to Maa Kali. The Bestower of Worldly Pleasures and Enjoyments.

Also spelled

  • Visva Bhogada
  • Vishwa Bhogada
  • VishvaBhogada
  • Source transliteration: VISHHVA BHOGA-DA

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: The Bestower of Worldly Pleasures and Enjoyments.

Elaboration

Vishhva Bhoga-da means "She who bestows all enjoyment." Here, Vishhva carries the sense of "all" or "the universe," while Bhoga refers to enjoyment, experience, pleasure, and worldly fulfillment. In this name, Kali appears as the Divine Mother who grants the full range of experiences available within embodied life.

The Divine Provider This name highlights Kali not only as the destroyer of evil, but also as the provider and sustainer. Though she is often approached in her fierce form, she is also the benevolent Mother who upholds the well-being of her creation. Prosperity, comfort, beauty, and sensory enjoyment in worldly life all arise through her power.

Balance of Experience Vishhva Bhoga-da points to the whole range of experience within the phenomenal world. Her gift is not limited to material wealth. It includes the enjoyment of art, relationships, knowledge, and the many forms of fulfillment that make embodied existence rich and meaningful. She grants these experiences so that souls may live, learn, mature, and in time move toward transcendence.

Holistic Fulfillment This aspect of Kali shows that she is concerned not only with liberation, but also with the balanced experience of life in the material plane. For those who seek worldly fulfillment through artha and kama, she is the Divine power that grants and governs those aims, preparing the ground for dharma and moksha. Her gift of bhoga is therefore not separate from spiritual life. Through enjoyment itself, one gradually comes to see the passing nature of pleasure and pain, and from that insight deeper discernment can arise.

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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