The Male Female Harmony in Vedic Tradition...

As compared to other religions like Christianity and Islam, where they see one holy father as the great creator, in Vedic Mythology, it takes both the Divine Male and Female Entity for the creation of the universe. Shiva and Shakti, are required together for the universe to manifest, where Shiva is the pure being the existence itself, and Shakti the pure will to put everything into motion.

In one of my previous blog posts, I had written about Lalita Tripura Sundari. Lalita means the playful one or the one who plays. Meaning the creation, manifestation and destruction of the entire universe and everything that prevails is but the play of the divine Goddess. She is also known as the MahaTripuraSundari, or the transcendent beauty of the Three places. It could also be interpreted as the the divine beauty who has conquered the three lokas, dev loka, mrityu loka and danav loka. This Goddess is born out of Shree Chakra that is created by Lord Indra out of a Yagna. Even after being so powerful, she is destined to get married before she goes ahead to destroy the great evil Bhandasura.

So after being satisfied that her independence will not be harmed after marriage, she agrees and throws a garland into the air which lands around the neck of Kameshwar, the God of love and pleasure, one of the divine forms of Lord Shiva.

Later after the battle with Bhandasura is won, she goes to stay in Shrinigar, a city built for her by Vishwakarma, the celestial architect and Maya. She is described as sitting on a Sinhasana, the legs of which are Brahma, Vishnu, Eeshwara (The personal God) and Maheshwara. She sits on a blanket, which is Sada Shiva and finally she sits on the lap of her husband, Kameshwara.

This is wonderfully symbolic, the way it is described. Brahma, Vishnu, Eeshwara and Maheshwara as the base, and then Sada Shiva, the five faced ascetic form of Shiva and then finally on the lap of Kameshwara (he who has conquered pleasure). Meaning, in order to truly enjoy the full pleasure of life, material and spiritual, one must rise above material pleasure through spiritual means, but interestingly enough the end is not entirely ascetic, the end result is Lalita and kameshwara together.

Obviously with all this power, the battle with Bhandasura was nothing more than a tiny Irritation to the Devi.