If it is true that a human being is an embodiment of everlasting joy, then why do they suffer at all? Let us discuss the answer for this in this name.
As shown in the figure above, karma repeats. What you go through is the result of your past karma. If it is good karma, then you will go through pleasurable moments. If it is bad karma, then you go through sorrowful moments. The pleasure or pain of past karma is actually an attribute of the human body. It is the body that goes through them. Due to ignorance, humans attach themselves to their bodies and this attachment makes them think that they are going through the pain. Learned scholars realize that it is the body that is going through the pleasure or pain and hence don't feel joyful or sorrowful due to that. They will receive both of them with balanced and conscious mind. With such steadfast mind they enjoy the bliss of Atma. This consciousness is the form of Divine mother.
Birth, ageing, death are common changes that everybody goes through. These transformations are painful. Divine mother removes the sorrow caused by these painful transformations by raising your consciousness levels. People are born due to karma of their past births. Then they do karma to live. And they die at the end. Death is inevitable. They take birth again. They go through lot of hardships during these cycles of birth and death. The suffering is twofold:
1. The difficulties or hardships one has to go through due to past karma
2. The unhappiness that they had to go through lot of hardships
The consequences of our past actions are like arrows shot from a bow. We cannot evade them. It is also unrealistic to expect that we will always be happy by doing only good deeds. Humans unintentionally kill millions of microorganisms with every breath. These organisms enter the body through the air we inhale, get trapped in the windpipe and perish. This causes negative karma, but it is inevitable. We can try to avoid doing harm deliberately, but not what happens unconsciously. The issue here is the unhappiness we experience when we face the difficulties of bad karma. Mother Lalitha alleviates this unhappiness. She does not remove the hardships, but she elevates our awareness to a level where we perceive them as qualities of the body and not of ourselves. Then, the cause of our sorrow or unhappiness disappears. That is why she is called janma mrityu jaraa thaptha jana vishraanthi daayini.
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