This is an extract from a podcast I listen to regularly, Called Vedic Mythology, Music and Mantras.
In the Lalita SahasraNaam, She is described thus...
The young wife, passionately fond of her husband. She is a mother who takes care of her children, She is forever young, rosy in the morning sun, and the jewels she wears rival the stars in their splendor.
Her breath has the perfume of camphor, her voice is sweeter even than the Veena of Saraswati, and she has the fragrance of Sandalwood.
She is passionately fond of flowers and constantly wears them in her hair, she shines like the rose but is fonder of the flowers of the spirit.
She is the home of all the arts. She is the priceless pearl hidden in the depths of all the scriptures. The vedas bow to her, for she is their mother.
She is worshipped by all the Gods in Heaven, but is accessible by all even the poorest and the least educated. Her grace is easily won and requires no particular merit on our part.
The upanishads describe her as being the ultimate reality, above all tatvas and categories of thoughts, above all dualisms, the one indivisible spirit without qualities, without parts, ever free and ever pure, formless and timeless and without a cause, without a lapse and without a limit.
A very inspiring vision of the divine.
Some extracts of the Lalita Sahasranama goes thus...
8th Verse: Om Raga swarupa prasadayayey namaha, meaning I pray to she, who holds in her left lower hand a noose, representing the power of love. Not a ribbon, not a string, but the noose of love. There is a lovely irony there.
And at times she is described as someone who is wonderfully sensual. What else would you expect from the wife of Kameshwara.
Even though she is described as the wife of Kameshwara, she is also, among one of the verses described as she who has no over lord. So even though she loves her husband so much, she is not over powered by him or controlled by him.
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