Meaning and elaboration
Meaning: She who is dear to the Lingga, the emblem of Shiva's creative principle.
Elaboration
Lingga Priya means "She who is dear to the Lingga" or "Beloved of the Lingga." The Lingga is the emblematic form of Shiva, especially of his formless, absolute, and generative reality.
Integral to Shiva's Identity This name highlights Kali's inseparable relationship with Shiva, her divine consort. She is Shakti, the living power that makes Shiva manifest in action. Traditional teaching says that without Shakti, Shiva is Shava, a lifeless body; with her, his transcendent stillness becomes the source of creation, transformation, and withdrawal.
The Cosmic Principle of Creation The Lingga points to the source of manifestation and to the unity of Purusha and Prakriti within one reality. As Lingga Priya, Kali is the active power that receives Shiva's consciousness and brings the universe forth as the womb of creation. She sustains that manifestation and finally draws it back into its source.
Devotion and Union This name also carries the sense of intimate union between the divine feminine and the divine masculine. It teaches that stillness and movement, Shiva and Shakti, are not opposed realities but two aspects of one truth. For the devotee, meditating on Lingga Priya deepens awareness of that non-dual unity within both the cosmos and one's own inner life.