At the Garden of Eden, Lilith is the first woman created by God, alongside Adam. As the narrative of the Old Testament goes, Lilith awoke just before Adam, and was asked by God to lay beneath Adam for the birthing of mankind. Lilith revolted, asking for equality, disrespecting God by taking his name.
Lilith then fled the Garden of Eden, and met Lucifer, God’s fallen angel; who turned Lilith into the goddess of daemons. Then Eve was created from one of the ribs of Adam.
Our world is built from the fruit of knowledge, which Adam & Eve tasted at the Garden of Eden, before being banished. Then Lilith is the one who can see the kingdom of god & Adam’s world from the outside. She is the outsider who watches. And as She watches, She also sees.
Lilith is a seer in Adam’s dreaming world.
The Truce
Later in the narrative of the Old Testament, after much blood & battle, God made a truce with Lucifer & Lilith, for peace. So Lucifer & Lilith were so strong that God had to surrender. Yes, for the love of God is great. He surrendered for his creation. But …
Did God not create Lucifer & Lilith too ?!! 🤔 so God created the devil, who he himself mastered & taught and who became more powerful than God himself. Now a true master, is one who is fulfilled only when his disciple outgrows him. Then the master, surrenders to his own disciple, and declares him master. A true creator is surrendered to his creation, he need not surrender for his creation. His creation is his expression of love. Love is God. If God created Lucifer & Lilith, how did they get more powerful than God himself? And if somehow they did, why did God not surrender? He said instead, ‘I’ll keep the kingdom of god, & Adam’s world; you keep the rest.’ – the unknown as we call it.
The unknown was termed daemonic territory & Lilith was blamed. She still is. This is the root of the fight between Good & Evil, the only knowledge of the Garden of Eden. This is also the root of misunderstanding Tantra – shivas sacred sexual teachings to Shakti, without even touching her. In Tantra, there is no divide, no duality. It says, ’all is divine’.
Oh how questionable Lilith!
The narrative states that Lilith disobeyed God by asking for equality & disrespected him by taking his name. It’s a narrative that fits so perfectly in Adam’s world today. But was Lilith so strong at awakening that she could disobey & disrespect her own Creator? If yes, why would she even need a Lucifer to uncover her complete feminine potential? Lilith is feminine energy, which is Love. It may manifest & express in many ways but intrinsically ‘She’ is love.
Could it be then, that Lilith wasn’t asking for equality but only asking God to let love lead the way to life. Asking for the freedom to let love be free? Well if God allowed love to be free then there would be no God left. Love is God.
Now the narrative terms Lilith the Goddess of the Daemons. If she is so powerful that God had to surrender, and so daemonic to drink the blood of Adam’s babies in revenge; how in hell is humanity still going? Is the Lilith archetype so questionable because she don’t obey & respect, or because She comes from a world we don’t know?
Amoral Lilith
There is morality, there is immorality & then there is the fight between the two. Good & evil. Lilith is a fourth kind. She is Amoral. Beyond moral & immoral. Good & Evil. Actually, Lilith don’t know the concept of morality. She has no understanding of it. The world she comes from is not bound by the conditions of Adam’s world. Her world is the vastness of the unknown existence. All is divine. She is more uncultured, raw for Adam’s world, you could say. Her world is free. So she is already transcended the duality of morality. She is Amoral. Thus confusing & immensely misunderstood.
Lilith is largely misrepresented by the common narrative as a sexy seductress, who drinks the blood of babies & births daemonic babies with Lucifer. The Lilith archetype breathes & lives within us in this world but She is just not of it. Lilith is the one who has been raised in love & freedom. She has been raised not for the world but for existence. She comes from an understanding that a being can only be a medium for existence to another being, not an owner. So she is free to burn her hands to learn that fire can burn & let other beings be the same. Free essentially. She has known love as freedom. Only in freedom can one learn responsibility. Responsible freedom is the playing & growing ground for love.
Adam’s world is not free, so it loves irresponsibly.
Adam’s dreaming world
If Lilith were granted a wish, she’d only wish that Adam taste the fruit of life too, before being banished from the Garden of Eden. Lilith has watched Adam’s world dreaming asleep, as a third person, as an outsider. While herself, she has been awake in a world where there is no dreaming. She has watched in amusement sometimes & in pain at other times. Adam is her counterpart. She loves him.
Essentially, goals, wishes, hopes; they are all dreams. Even in a waking state, if you look into yourself, you can hear the mind, in a future goal, wish, hope; or in a past memory. You will not find the mind in the present. It is constantly projecting its ‘dream’. A dream feels like reality when the mind is asleep. It is all a dream. Not that matter don’t exist. It does. But just like Adam’s world has devices like goals, ambitions, hopes; to keep it asleep. Lilith’s world has devices like, ‘the world is a dream’, to keep it awake. Existence don’t dream. No goals, no ambitions, no hopes. Adam’s dreaming world is just a device, not a theory or a philosophy.
When there is no dreaming of the past or future, there is the gift of life. Life is in the present, it is the gift of presence and it’s nature is love. Life is to love. When there is no thought, there is love, there is surrender, there is living. Lilith only wishes for Adam to taste the fruit of life, which keeps her awake to watch Adam & his dreaming, yet beautiful world.
No Lilith without a Lucifer
Lilith seems like a Neo Sanyasin to me 😊. And Lucifer is her master. There is a very intimate spiritual connection between a master & his disciple. It may or may not be romantic but it is intimate & energetic. It has to be, due to the nature of wisdom he is to impart to her. A disciple, despite the gender is always only feminine energy. Only then can a disciple receive sacred wisdom. The feminine is the receiver. Essentially, the disciple must be in love with the master. Surrendered.
Lilith may not always know, but Lucifer always watches her. He is the ultimate watcher. That is how he teaches her where to watch & how to watch. From an early age, a Lilith will encounter both divine masculine & distorted masculine energy in close proximity. Lucifer does this so she can develop her natural ability to recognize her Adam. Most important masculine relationships in her life will be with men who are of divine masculine archetype or awakened potential. Their nature is love. They have all been her teachers at some point on her journey. All been preparing her for her role.
Lilith’s potential is in birthing not just babies, but herself & also the new man.
Lucifer’s love for Lilith
Lucifer teaches Lilith many important lessons in love, surrender & freedom. He keeps her awake, non-attached & non-averse to the world of Adam, only allowing her to watch. The greatest wisdom he imparts to her, only to play her role in her ‘leela’; is to complete herself without Adam. One, ‘Coz all bets are off on when Adam will wake up to the present. Two, if she needs Adam’s love to give him love, love will die. Love’s only need is to give love. Adam’s world today, has proved that a woman needs no man, except for physical intimacy. That too, well … another day …
Lucifer has to have deep & pure intimacy with Lilith to impart sacred wisdom to her. To complete herself alone. Even the need for physical intimacy. He completes her in aloneness. Tantra is one such scared teaching of shiva to shakti. He has imparted scared sexual wisdom to her, only through techniques & meditations, without touching her. He teaches her how to exist in an orgasmic state of consciousness with existence, without even touching her. A good chunk of Tantra, is filled with meditative techniques for her to experience completeness even without Shiva. When shakti is receiving love from existence itself, source itself, she don’t need even shiva. Then from that space she can give herself as Love. Love only wants to give. When one is complete in their own being as love, then one can give themselves as Love to another. The feminine is the receiver, she only has love to give. It is shiva’s love for shakti. Shakti herself has her aspects of Lilith in kali, Durga & many more. Siva is shakti’s counterpart in every aspect. He knows the power he holds over her & tantra is his expression of love to empower her totally, because he cannot spill his Sperm. He is not just her counterpart, shiva is also Shakti’s master. There is love, there is surrender, there is deep understanding & there is respect on both sides.
Lucifer & Lilith’s common goal
But in Adam’s world, the counterparts are separated, so a Lucifer is needed to impart the wisdom of completion. A Radha is separated from krishna, a Mary is separated from Jesus, a Sita from Ram, a Romeo from Juliet, a Laila from majnu, and the list goes on. Lucifer Gives Lilith a direct source of love from existence itself, so she don’t need or depend on the love of Adam. But he keeps her love for Adam alive. Why? I’ve wondered! A recent understanding is, It isn’t essentially Adam or his world that Lucifer is directly interested in. He is only interested in keeping Lilith’s love alive. He needs that love in her for her to complete. It naturally just happens to flow to Adam.
They each have a role to play in her ‘leela’ (play) & their roles have a common goal. To keep love alive Coz love is god.
Misunderstood Lilith
Lilith seems to be existing for God, ‘Coz love is God; yet she is probably the most misunderstood mythological character, after God himself. Today, she is not a myth. She is a living, breathing being amongst us. It maybe hard to spot her or if she’s spotted, to understand her. The sexy, seductive, bold, woman has become the face of Lilith. There is an air of mystery & a certain magnetic pull in a Lilith, because of the world she comes from. It’s mystical, it’s unknown. But Lilith, may not be a fit with the common narrative of the ‘wild woman’. What she will definitely be is ‘in the world but not of it’.
Lilith is definitely,
Raw, May or may not be bold
Sensual, May or may not be sexy
Surrendered, May or May not be suppressed
Complete, never arrogant
Alone, never lonely
Innocent, not naive
Magnetic, not seductive
She is all of these, she need not become. There is no need for her to bare her body to become attractive to man. She is attractive to Man. Lilith & Adam were created to be attractive to each other. There is no acting, her role is written for her. She don’t need to try to be what she already is. In the same way, Neither does Adam. The thing is, Lilith is all of this and so much more, ‘Coz she don’t know at all what she is. She don’t know she is all of this. All she knows is that she is of existence and she is nothing. There is a mystical innocence to her. A knowing of that which is & no knowing of Adam’s world at all. She is always ready to learn what is known. Lilith knows how to watch & that is enough to learn. She knows nothing else. She knows only the unknown & The unknown is nothing. So she knows she is nothing. But To understand her, Adam needs to un-know all that he knows, to know that which is unknown. There is a ‘world’ between them. Adam’s dreaming world.
Waking up
Lilith is of the vastness of existence. She already knows she is not. Lilith too, lives in the ‘I am not’, where love lives. When ‘I am not’ love is. Now Adam’s world is a reality too. A dreaming one but a reality, none the less. Adam’s world cannot exist without ‘I am’. Lilith is not against or for Adam’s world. She is for him, thereby all his world. She just wishes for him to be awake in his dreaming world. So, She feeds his ‘I’ through her ‘I am not’. In a way that feeds the ‘I’ and yet wakes him up to life. To end the dream & birth the living.
There are only Two ways to wake up from the dream. A constant conscious awareness of ‘I am’ or ‘I am not’. When all that is true is ‘I am’ then everything else is just meaningless, a dream. Then the only question is who am ‘I’ if ‘I am’. This question leads to the same place as ‘I am not’. The more we enquire into ‘I’, the more we find that ‘I am not’. When ‘I am not’, dreams are not. That is why an awakening leads to ego death. That acceptance of all that ‘I’ know is that ‘I’ know nothing at all. It’s all false. It is a hard pill to swallow. Many enlightened masters have used this technique for jolting awakened consciousness in their disciples. Bhagwan Raman Maharshi for example. Now,
When all that is true is ‘I am not’ then everything is not, it is all a dream. Only a few enlightened masters have used this technique as it is more suited to the intrinsic feminine nature. All enlightened beings in women’s bodies have used this technique. It is faster, yes, but also more painful as the drop is steep. Straight from ‘I’ to ‘I am not’.
The duality of Lilith & Adam
Shiva has taught shakti this through technique & Bhagwan has simplified it, saying
‘If you are, then the whole reality is just a dream. If you are not, then the dreaming becomes a reality’.
Adam’s ‘I am’ and Lilith’s ‘I am not’ are two faces of the same coin of duality. They are Yin Yang. They balance each other to transcend the dreaming state. As her ‘I am not’ awakens more & more to the truth, his ‘I am’ will die to the false. ‘I’ is the dream, from which comes the dreaming world, from which comes another dreaming ‘I’. It’s a vicious circle. There is no end for lifetimes at a stretch, unless the dreaming stops. We do a million things in our life and find ourselves getting bored with everything. Some get bored quickly, and some take time. But eventually all get bored of everything. In existence, Lilith’s world, the world itself is a dream, ‘Coz she is not. There is no boredom, ‘Coz only ‘I’ can get bored.
How many lifetimes does one want to go through these series of boredoms? It’s the same cycle of momentary joy & then back to boredom. The boredom is because the dream is. Mind always needs something to project. That is why when there is no dreaming, you cannot exist. There is no presence beyond past & future. the dreaming is a way to suppress the present. because the present is life less. there is no love. So you push away the present, the gift, life itself. Love is life. The Buddhas say, one who gets bored easily is an old soul of much wisdom, contrary to the common narrative that if you’re bored easily, you’re not focused, grounded or you’re lazy. In truth? It’s Better to be done with the dreaming, let it drop one at a time; so destiny can unfold, so living can begin.
Adam wants to be needed, but needs to be loved
Adam’s human condition is one that wants to be needed but needs to be loved. Lilith is incapable of giving him what he wants, ‘Coz she is complete in her existence, and she don’t know Adam’s wants. She don’t even know his world. Lilith is not. She needs nothing. She knows Love, so she has life, & the rest is a dream. Lilith IS, to give Adam what he needs. Love. ❤️
Only When Adam has love, can he give his World Love. The gift of presence.
You can’t always get what you want, but you always get what you need. 😊
Lolita was a lover of Krishna & also a grateful receiver of His divine love & trust. Her devotion to Krishna, knew no end. Only second to Radha, she was Love herself. Yet she was second to Radha, because she had 1% of jealousy towards Radha. It is this tiny blockage that brought her back as Meera in her following incarnation. A life full of struggles as many would call it. But not for Meera herself.
Meera was born & raised a princess who later went on to be married to a prince. From an early age, Meera was attracted to the consciousness of Krishna, which threatened her very existence, time & again, through her journey as Meera. Her love in devotion & prayer to Krishna, has her termed ‘the other half’ of Him through history. ‘She is not’. So she became an ‘enlightened being’. She became love itself. And love is God. But to become, She did nothing. Love happened to her & it raised her to Krishna consciousness.
Meera is a happening.
Do we really need a Meera today?
A single word answer is ‘yes’. Why? For love itself.
Meera is a mirror. She has lost her whole sense of ‘I’ in the consciousness of Krishna. There is no sense of ‘I’ left in a Meera. No sense of ‘I am not’ either. There is no ‘I’. Period. There is no experiencer of love, but there is a being of Love. She is Love. So when the you are touched by the love of Meera, the mirror, you are not seeing her at all. In Meera, you can only see your own reflection as God himself.
In a world where Love & God are only words, a Meera is needed to reflect the highest conscious potential of man.
Meera – a way of life
Not only her love, but her surrender of self is also needed. Her surrender comes from a deep understanding & acceptance of the intrinsic feminine nature. ‘She’ is surrendered. In her own nature ‘She’ is most powerful. In her own nature, ‘She’ is to be the energetic leader of the world of freedom. Love is freedom. It is a Meera’s faith that keeps faith alive. We all have a hope for god. But faith is whole different story. Hope is a dream, faith is a knowing. And there is no faith without total surrender.
When existence (Krishna for Meera), is responsible, then who is ‘I’ to decide what ‘I’ deserve? What ‘I’ is worthy of? ‘Let Him decide’ is what a Meera says. He decides, she deserves to be a princess & He also decides she deserves to be a Buddha – the enlightened one. Total surrender, is total acceptance too. They go hand in hand. The fight with life is eradicated. Now the fight with the world remains. A Meera is in this world but not of it. She is of God, existence, Krishna. Miraculously, He takes care of the world. How? There is no answer to that but it IS.
Meera is a way of life that can change the world, because only a Meera don’t want to change the world. Krishna has said, ‘He alone achieves, who doesn’t want to achieve’. Meera is a happening, everything that happens through her being, is also just a happening. She is grateful but she cannot take credit for it. There is no ‘I’.
Meera – not a religion
Religions like Buddhism, Jainism & Christianity are formed around enlightened beings. No religion can be formed around a Meera or for that matter, a Rumi. Rumi IS Meera, just in a man’s body. Religion is here to separate man from god & love is here to unite man with God. Religion cannot be formed on love. Meera is love.
Meera – just a happening
So what exactly happened to Meera? Love. That’s all. Love happened to Meera. It has happened to all of us. And if it hasn’t, Meera’s only blessing is ‘May you fall in love.’ Love just happens but is it really love? How to know? You can be with a person for years but love May never happen, or May happen years later, or at first sight. That don’t matter. The moment love happens, is crucial. The moment when ‘I’ sees the divine in ‘you’. That is the moment, ‘I’ knows love.
Love happens in the present. The mind lives in the future or the past. Love cannot happen in the mind. Love happens, the moment another consciousness’ presence stops the futility of time within your consciousness. It is the moment, thinking stops. It is the moment a mirror meets a mirror. Or a mirror meets a screen, that’ll later turn in to a mirror. Meeting a mirror, awakens love. Time stops, the present, the gift of love is revealed.
Love – the fast track to enlightenment.
Once love has happened, even for a moment, the being has received a glimpse into his highest potential. That glimpse cannot be forgotten. For Meera, it had to be Krishna, because she had already experienced the Love of the highest. Regardless, all life is a manifestation of God himself. All life is God himself.
Once Love happens, God has started happening. Love is the nature of all beings. It is Godliness. It is the nature of feminine energy. When that feminine energy within a being, undergoes a ‘dark night of the soul’, the masculine energy, ‘I’, within the being, undergoes ‘ego death’, a layer at a time.
Love IS or ‘I’ IS
As the ego, the ‘I’ dies, a layer at a time, love frees the lover from the attachments of the world. So love can be free. The lover goes into a meditative state. That is why Bhagwan says, ‘if you are really in love, you don’t even need to meditate.’ The ‘I’ becomes slower, but the ‘eye’ (thirds eye) becomes stronger.
However, for the ‘I’ to completely die, for total surrender to happen; the ‘I’, the ego must reach its peak. Only a total ego, can totally surrender. The lover has lost most of its ego on the path. Now how will the lover reach the peak? Love itself becomes the ‘I’ & the ‘I’ ‘thinks’ ‘I am love’. Ego is completing itself. Only at its peak, can ego see that love is much greater than it. And for love itself, it will die for the final time.
When Love goes through her final short but deep, ‘Dark night of the soul’, the ‘I’ mirrors that through its complete ‘ego death’. Then there is no ‘I’. Only love IS.
Then Meera is not Krishna consciousness. Then Meera is Krishna. She has arrived, she has attained. She is in union. Whatever you’d like to say. She doesn’t even know arrival or attainment or even union. There is no ‘I’. Love is meditation. Love must be for Her to be.
Meera is a message
Meera is a message from existence. A message of love that reads, ‘Love is God’. Love happens & when it happens, existence has decided that we are worthy of this divine gift.
Love is not a person. It happens within the self. It maybe awakened by the being of another but it is a happening within self. Once it happens, we can either choose to murder it by reducing it to matter, possession, relationship. Or we can choose to perish in the pain of separation. (These are the poets who wrote only of the pain of love & added to the suppression and fear of love) OR
We can choose to experience the divine Gift that love IS, despite the separation. The message is simple, ‘Love is God’ & Love is simple too. Love only wants to give. Everything else is the ego.
So, can a Meera happen today?
Simple answer, ‘Yes’. A Meera ain’t bound by time. She is beyond time. She is beyond separation. She must happen more often as ‘She is in the world but not of it’. She is a glimpse, an awakening, a door into a world of freedom. That is why a Meera don’t happen no more. Most tools in the world are unconsciously built to strengthen the sense of ‘I’ and a Meera can only happen in the ‘I am not’.
Meera can happen when the feminine herself accepts her own intrinsic nature of love & surrender. Then the true power of the feminine can be revealed. Every Meera will flower unique to its individuality but she can only be discovered with love as the teacher.
Love of a beloved being
Love of a beloved master
Love of the beloved god.
The face of the beloved may change, the soul remains love. Regardless, ‘the beloved is the path itself.’
It is said that we can revisit previously opened windows on our experience of life. And we can look at them anew. When we can share the view with no pain, or attachment to it; we have healed. I couldn’t agree more. This blog post is close to my heart. I’m sharing, as I also revisit, some windows, I opened early in life. These are some windows weve all opened in our basic experience of life. These are the windows that shaped my initial view/perception/understanding of life itself.
The view from the windows I speak about below, is the view I see when I look back into them today. At the time, I experienced the view with ‘them’ (others) in it. Today there’s so little of ‘I’ left, so there is a ‘you’ but no ‘they’. The more the ‘I’, the more the ‘they’The less the ‘I’, the less the ‘you’. ‘I’ & ‘YOU’ = The View. that is today. When there is no ’I’ left, there will be no ’You’ left either. and no View either. only the complete reality – The Truth. So as we get closer to Truth, the same View changes too.
A Window
Once upon a beautiful time,
Before all the days of rhyme,
A mystical window I discovered.
Never opened, always covered.
Intrigued & mystified, one fine day,
I opened the inviting window wide.
It was Godly, shining, ‘Divine’, I say,
The view from this side. 👌🏻
My sight was drawn to a bright white light,
Emitting from another window in sight.
There’s other windows in sight alright,
But none emitting such a divine light.
It was like ‘they’ never saw the light,
It was like ‘they’ never had a sight.
Not the light, ‘they’ saw my glowing face,
Only then did ‘they’ really, make it a race.
‘They’ saw me, & then the light,
There began all the cunning fight.
It became such an ugly sight.
Now, I was the reason to fight. 🥺
I still wanted to just see the light,
But For me the window, was shut tight.
So I shut it too, this window tight, 😡
To be gone, forever outta sight.
For Many days & many nights,
There was no noise & no fights.
Windows remained shut so tight,
As I was finding my own little light.
Then one day, I heard a knock,
On the window, now with a lock.
With a lock, tick tock, tick tock,
Over the window, I had hung a clock. 🕚
I looked, and there was the bright white light,
Shining through the cracks, reaching my sight.
Fearful to open the window again,
Remembering all the Un-healed pain,
Yet I opened the window again,
Hoping this time to avoid the pain.
Yet again, yet again … 🤦🏻♀️
‘They’ saw me & then the light,
Again, began all the useless fight.
Again, It became an ugly sight.
Of course, now I too was to fight. 🥺
I still just wanted to see the light,
But, Only for me, it was fading to night.
So again, I shut this window tight,
Why be in sight & yet see no light? 🙄
Then for months, there was no light,
Open window, but not a sight.
It made me wonder, it made me feel,
How much the light is asking to heal. 🤔
Was it a mirror on the other side,
Of that window with the bright light?
Wanting this window opened wide,
So I can too, mirror …
Or reflect the light?
Or was it a mirror on the other side,
Of that window with the bright light?
Mirroring a bright white light, from inside,
For something other than my grateful …
But limited sight?
Or was there someone on the other side,
Of that window with the bright light?
Dimming the bright white light, from inside,
To protect me from some evil …
Or conditioned sight?
I see just a window, and just a light,
But for me it is a very sacred sight.
I’m the moon, I live in the dark night,
The ‘Night Lord’ showed me another Light.
I’d always wished upon a shining star,
The one I had named after my star. 😊
‘I wish with your cosmic magic one day,
I open the window, and there’s no ‘they’’ 🙏🏻
Been wanting to open the window again,
I don’t fear the fighting & all of the pain.
But I’d rather not be an object in ‘their’ sight,
I’d rather just be reflecting, only the light. 😊
So, then, after long, magic today I see,
This window, open can always be.
From the other windows, ‘they’ cannot see,
I see the window, & when it’s lit, it sees me 😁
Humbled by the light, not craving a sight
Now that there’s my own little light.
Not as white, not as bright,
But bright enough for my own sight. 🤩
Now that I, don’t see the ‘they’,
Now that there’s no un-healed pain,
Now there’s no ‘I’, waiting to play,
So I open the window again 🤫
#MaPJ
Behind the unopened windows
Behind all the unopened windows on our journey, are experiences we’ve missed to live. In other words, we’ve missed life itself. These windows are opportunities, we’ve missed leaping into, risks we’ve missed experiencing the adventure of. It is doubt & fear that holds us back. The only language of the mind, apart from desire. The aversion to a negative experience, is as self-destructive as attachment to a positive experience. Non-attachment & non-aversion is the middle path, the path less path, the gate less gate, the effortless effort. The path of the non-doer. The Path of Zen & the path of the ‘Geeta’.
Behind these unopened windows is the unknown! Our fear of the unknown, blocks our experience of the unknown as well. The only ‘doing’ is the opening or the ‘not opening’ of the window. Beyond that is only a reflection of our own perception; no matter which window I open and which I don’t.
The View
Once we open any window, we see the beautiful & the ugly. And the beautiful & the ugly will also see us. The world around us, is ‘doing’ so much that not for a moment, ‘they’ stop to experience the beauty around. If ‘they’ did, ‘they’ would see the divine light too. ‘Coz beauty cannot be seen with the body’s eyes, it can only be experienced by the soul. It can be seen by the ‘third eye’, the sixth sense. The rest is superficial beauty. When I see beauty, ‘I’ feel happy. But when I experience beauty, I am beautiful. When I am beautiful, wherever I am, there is beauty. Every ‘View’ is beautiful. Not the beauty of the conditioned ‘I’ but the beauty of the ‘Light’ of the view falling on me, reflecting my perception of life. The Divine Light. Only a Divine sight can see a divine light.
Amidst the ‘doing’, those around me, in passing, see me still, just ‘being’, with the ‘glow’ of the ‘light’ on my face. Then ‘they’ see the light. Then ‘they’ desire to take the ‘light’ ‘on the go’. In a ‘to go’ bag 😂. The ‘light’ stays put. When ‘they’ stand there ‘looking’ at me, the ‘light’ is making ‘their’ faces glow too. ‘They’ just can’t see themselves. We just need to ’be’ still a moment and it will reflect on us too. What is reflecting on our face is the light that is inside us. The view is beautiful when ‘I’ has the sight to see the beauty. The view outside, is only a mirror, reflecting back to me, ‘what I am’ inside. What my sight is showing me. So ‘they’ don’t even really exist between ‘I’ and the ‘view’ I wish to see.
The view is in my Experience
Life is beyond the control of ‘I’. The ‘I’ is too small to experience life. It only ‘does’ to find stimulus outside of itself. Finding the beauty outside to feel beautiful inside. But it’s the inside that reflects outside. Life will show me only that which is required to ‘be’ inside. When we open windows, we see the beautiful and the ugly. Both are there present outside because it is present inside. As we transform the inside, for which we must ‘be’ inside, the outside transforms. As within, so without; as above, so below.
Essentially the energy for ‘them’ flows outward & outward (& sometimes inward). All ‘doing’ is outward. All! Except meditation, which is a non-doing. A ‘being’. By meditation too, I mean vipassna only. Silent being. No other forms of active or even passive meditations. To control the view outside, our experience of life, the energy only needs to move inward and upward, which it does in vipassna sessions as there is no way for the energy to flow outward. There is no outward flow needed and the energy circles within. The outward is forever changing based on the inward flow of energy. So after ‘opening’ the window, there is no other ‘doing’ that is required. The ‘doing’ happens through the ‘being’ as we flow through the experience of life looking at the view from the opened windows.
A window to a different view
How do ‘I’ know the view beyond the window until I open it? I’d like to share some views of windows I opened as a teenager in a co-creative process with the universe. I just didn’t know then ‘why’, and neither did I care. Only because it is during those years that we all ‘choose’ a way of ‘being’, in one of two relationships with ourselves and that is how we start to experience the outside world.
Either we choose to see ourselves as different or unique from the rest of the world. Or we choose to see the world just as we are, where different and unique is the way it is. Intrinsically, We are all unique manifestations of existence. That is the unchanging truth. So in the former, we keep searching for somewhere to belong, outside of us. But the thought itself that ‘I am different’, has created a blockage in finding belonging, oneness or communion. The former is a mindset of separation consciousness. And in the latter we keep fitting in everywhere we go as different, unique individuals. An individual can fit in anywhere because he ain’t searching for belonging. His ‘home’ is him. He is at ‘home’ wherever he goes. A search for Belonging is the biggest symptom of the Human condition. We all want a home, because we’ve forgotten that we are home. It’s just a perspective. A manipulated perspective, muddled
in the illusion of preferences and choices.
During these years of choices in building a relationship to self, are initial experiences of two of the most manipulated aspects of the human consciousness, to control ‘them’ like herds. One is ‘their’ relationship to sex and the other is ‘their’ relationship to money (sometimes also referred to as Identity, in the material world). But first ….
A window to the illusion of freedom
I was raised in what we call a ‘Joint family’ in India. So three nuclear families under one roof, not so much because of the financial inability to support a nuclear family but more so because of the conditioning of what ‘family’ is really about. Brothers and their families + grandma must live together. And domestics helpers too in a three bedroom apartment. My cousin brothers and myself were growing up together with no separate rooms. So as I was approaching my 13th birthday, my parents and me unanimously decided that it’d be fun to explore life without nagging parents at a boarding school in the Himalayas! 😁.
I’ve always kinda been one to seek an adventure, so it was a yes to a boarding school. My parents didn’t know much about boarding schools then and so initially for the first 6 months I was in a convent in a tiny little hill station in the Himalayas. Very reputed, but a convent. Let’s just leave it at that for this post. Don’t feel like going into that today. A convent in itself was very new for me. Completely controlled by the knowledge of the garden of Eden. A window that would remain shut had I not agreed with my parents, just to see what it’s like. What was even more new, was an all girls boarding school. I had migrated from an all girls day school, with a counterpart boys school just across the street. I had cousins and friends who were boys and we were the same age. They went to the counterpart school. I grew up with boys and girls alike, as children. Here, there were only girls and nuns and some wired rules.
A window to sex
So these rules …. A specific rhythm to clap, a specific way to sit, the way to eat. I remember, we were punished for peeling a banana with our hands and eating it. The peeling, the chopping and the eating, all must be done with a fork and knife only! No hands. Why though, I’ve forever wondered! But yes, I’m grateful to have learnt the art of how to peel a banana with a fork and knife, if I’m ever on gunpoint to do so (or to win a trip to the moon). 🤩
Anyways, at that age, we start to explore freedom amidst rules & sexuality amidst a world where sex is suppressed and thereby used to mind control too. As our bodies grow so do our sexual urges. This place had no boys and of course, the girls were exploring their sexuality with the same sex. My first kiss, my first sexual experience was with a girl. We called it ‘making out’ then. There were no boys around and I too wanted to experience what was being experienced by everyone around me. So I opened that window. Did I enjoy the view? Well what’s there not to enjoy in an expression of affection towards you? It’s humbling. But that place wasn’t for me. Too many rules for a free bird like me. In 6 months I ran away from school and called my mom from a shop in town. I asked her to come get me Coz I was Cloister phobic in that environment. There was some emotional discomfort after, but everything heals faster at that age.
Another window to sex
After that, my parents and me were back on the decision making table. Now, did I wanna go back to a boarding school or stay at home. I didn’t like the stupid rules which made no sense to me, but I did enjoy the freedom and independence I had away from home, to experience life on my own. So I chose once again to go back to a boarding school. This time I landed myself in an even more reputed school, with 60 girls and 700 boys 😁. What fun!
Here I experienced my second kiss and my second, third and fourth ‘make-out’ experience. This time with boys. Was it different? The way affection was expressed by a girl and boy was different but the affection itself was no dufferent. Essentially they were both glimpses of Love expressed differently. I enjoyed them both but I knew this second time, third, forth time; that the feeling of the warm, heavier hands of a boy on my body and to feel the coarseness of a boys growing facial hair on my face as he kissed me; was taking the experience to a different level for me. It became my preference. During those years I could’ve chosen either or both, as some others in my friends & family have certainly chosen. I’m grateful I experienced both as early as I did. These experiences allowed me to remain open and non-judgemental towards sexual preferences of individuals, without even realizing it until now. It allowed me to experience so many conversations & some great friendships with the ones who continued to choose the alternate path than the one I had chosen. Learn from them too as I experience my own. To me each one of us is unique in any case.
A window to Love
Don’t matter the path, don’t matter the preference; what matters is love. Sex is an expression of love and the lowest at that. It is merely a release. All expression is a release, all ‘doing’ is a release; but it can also become a ‘giving’. Love is ‘giving’. Love is not an expression, it is our true nature that only needs to give. Surely our nature can be expressed in more & higher ways than sex. Devotion for instance. Gratitude. The expressions of love range, as it rises, from desire to prayer.
Sex is an expression of desire, Surrender is an expression of devotion & communion is an expression of prayer 🙏🏻 Only Desire can be manipulated as it is attached to that which is temporary, our body & mind. Beyond that Love cannot be manipulated because beyond desire, the need of the other is no more to ‘Love’. Then ‘Love’ has risen to a spiritual realm, it has transformed to Divine Love.
Love is beyond sex
In both of my experiences, in my choice to sexual preference, and after that, beyond a point, the sexual experiences became boring anyways. 🙄 The need of the body and need of the Soul is totally different. Body needs stimulus, soul needs to give Love. At first, I thought because I was conditionally holding myself back from penetrative sex, I was loosing interest in the experience, not the being.
‘Going all the way
as ‘they’ say’
I was stubborn, that I’d only loose my virginity to the man I marry. Back then I associated love with marriage. I lost all my ‘boyfriends’ to my rigidity and lost my virginity to a player, who I didn’t marry. But every cloud has a silver lining. I discovered at loosing my virginity that I’d missed nothing missing penetrative sex. Only the guys were missing out… well … not completely though 🤔. I was giving enough in my expression of desire, just not my flower 🌸 (all the ‘F•R•I•E•N•D•S fans can relate I’m sure ☺️)
Even after going ‘all the way’, it turned boring after a while. But there’s something beyond sex that never bores me. I never left a man I ‘thought’ I loved, until I experienced true love. ‘They’ left me, with glimpses of Love, from the windows I opened. I discovered there was something of Love in me, beyond the sex, very early in life. It took Spiritual Love to break the illusion of the purity of what I thought my Love was. It was only friendship, commitment, loyalty, respect, admiration and a desire to ‘make it work’ in the name of Love. All desire is of the ego, even the desire of enlightenment. I always had more than sex to give in love. I just wasn’t given the opportunity to express love beyond (worldly) desire, because I didn’t understand my own Love back then. As within, so without.
A window to True Love
When true love happened to me, at first, there was no desire for sex, only a need to express and … for the first time, a desire to create something beyond me … a baby. That was a desire too of the woman’s body to express its life force energy, which is essentially released in largest quantities with sex. That is why, sex is spiritual if experienced correctly. We have not been taught spiritual sex, where the need of the body & the soul are one. It is an art and is meditative.
The rising life force energy has a nature only, nothing else, and it is Love & Love is God. Bhagwan has explained the rising of life force energy in his most controversial discourse, available in videos on YouTube (edited of course by OIF) & in a book titled, ‘From Sex to superconsciousness’ (संभोग से समाधि तक). And that is where Tantra comes in, where Love meets meditation.
My expression of love has been surrender since an early age. My love starts at devotion not desire. Because sex wasn’t as important to me in the expression of Love, I believed that something was wrong with me. I just didn’t know, sex can be transcended, and I very well could have transcended it in a previous life. Now that would be a soul imprint, wouldn’t it? Sex can be transcended through meditation. And if sex turns meditative it can enlighten two beings in an instant. Sex cannot be suppressed, but it can be transcended. And that journey can be an experience with the art of Tantra.
Love Cannot be Transcended
Sex can be transcended.
But … love cannot be transcended. The thing is A man’s ego wants to be needed by a woman and the Man himself needs her Love. And A woman’s ego wants to get love from a man and the woman herself needs to give her Love. And this unawareness of our own Human Condition keeps us in a constant inner struggle with ourselves. I must know what attracts me, not my ego.
I’m not attracted to form, I’m attracted to the formless I experience, through the emotional intellect of an individual. Therefore my love cannot be manipulated. As I transcended further with meditation, that desire of a baby too, dropped. Actually I’d say it transformed to something more spiritual. To study the art of Tantra, the teaching of Shiva to Shakti, in an expression of Love. So far I see no Shiva to teach me, I know there must be a Shiva who’s willing to learn together 😊. It is the fastest path I’ve found to raise Love from devotion to prayer, but first Love must be there.
Love is the Bright White Light
Love is not romantic or plutonic as I’ve found. At most it can be karmic or spiritual. Karmic love is not really love, it is a relationship to balance the karma of our outward reality. And spiritual love is true love, it is only a ‘relating’ to evolve on our own soul’s path. Karmic Love ends at desire, it has no interference with spiritual Love. It is not of the spiritual realms, where spiritual Love births & breaths. Spiritual love starts beyond desire, at devotion. It has its own journey, beyond the material and the physical. It is from the beyond.
Sexual preference doesn’t matter, only Love matters. True love. For instance, my preference is a man’s body (and I know I’ve enjoyed a woman’s body too), and … I fall in love with a man whose feminine expression is strong. A creative man is of strong feminine expression. The expression of the heart. I’m surrendered in Love & yet I love feminine men. 😊 The moment we see a glimpse of Love, regardless of sexual preference, or form; by allowing ourselves to fall deep into love wherever it flows, we can rise high to communion in prayer. Because Love is God.
Love is divine nature. It is the consciousness behind all there is. In both sexual encounters with a girl & a boy, I had experienced glimpses of love. As they say in spirituality, love is neither homosexual nor heterosexual, it is bi-sexual. Love expressed as sexual preference is a desire, which can flow in any direction, until the heart chakra is transcended. Beyond that the ‘other’ is not physically longed for or needed to express love. Then love is only ‘being’ expressed through gratitude, celebration (together or alone), devotion and prayer (in communion with another or divine).
From Sex to Superconsciousness
Essentially, homosexuality is an aspect of the human condition which is an expression of an aversion to or an attachment to the same sex. As heterosexuality is to the opposite sex. All preferences are conditioning that don’t hold strong beyond the attachments of the heart. Even the type of body we prefer, is a preference and has nothing to do with the experience itself. Only if I step out of my preference, will I know a new experience. So beyond the heart, the body don’t matter anyways but as love rises beyond desire, which is comprised of conditioning through past experiences only; I’ve seen, preferences also change. Change is the only constant.
Bhagwan explains this process as well, in relation to the life force energy & love, in his discourse, ‘From Sex to superconsciousness’.
Nature is Divine. Nature is Natural
What was that ‘extra’ with the boy for me? Something about the meeting of the opposites. The hard and the soft, the masculine & the feminine. Something of the balance. The natural surrender that happened in me, how nature had it be. The bodies of men & women are designed the way they are, for a reason. For life to flow and be created. Penetrative sex is not for the pleasure of the woman. Well ‘they’ seem to enjoy it, but I don’t believe ‘they’; I believe experience only. Penetrative sex is a gift from existence for the man, for his pleasure. For his life force energy (love) to flow & be ‘given’ to life itself. The Divine designed ‘Her’ to give love, as an expression of gratitude by accepting ‘His’ Love, in celebration of life. His love starts at the lowest chakra and reaches the heart over time. Her love starts at the heart and flows to the lowest chakra over time. That is why, it is both true that love happens over time & Love happens at first sight.
Love finds it’s natural flow & counterpart when it rises beyond desire. And all desire must be experienced to be transcended. That is the beauty of nature and nature is ‘giving’ & nature ain’t constant. It is forever changing. Love is nature. Nature is God. Love is god.
A window to Work
At about the same age at 13, my mom, being a ‘karma yogi’ (one on the path of the doer), started conversing with me about what I wanted to ‘do’ in life and how I can prepare for it. I wanted to act, but that I was fearful to tell her. So I came across as someone who didn’t want to ‘do’ anything at all. That was a huge concern for her. So the drilling conversations continued for years until I ‘opened’ another window without telling mom and then told her I was moving to Mumbai to ‘act’. This was 8 years later.
Before that because I said nothing for all of these years, mom would get me some paid job during my holidays to teach me the importance of work & money. At the time my father was at the peak of his career in sales and was travelling the world, getting me used to a lifestyle of material & luxury brands, which he himself enjoyed. My mom was always the breadwinner of the family. So she was earning equally well if not more. My parents are both fairly financially independent. I didn’t need to ‘earn’ money but she wanted me to learn how to spend it more than earn it. and didn’t want my dad’s modest financial background, to become a reason for my attachment to money and material. She was raised in luxury and worked very hard for a life as such too despite her then circumstances. The ‘They’ on her journey.
A window to money
I’m grateful that once again I accepted my mom’s persuasive argument on why I should work at the age of 13, when all of my other affluent friends were not working. But It ‘worked’ really well. That window was a big one that took me no time to figure out. I learnt so early that money can be earned in so many ways. And it is only a means to an experience that I spend it on. It is not the end. I wasn’t attached to it and because it brought me both material and adventurous experiences; I could never be averted to it.
I am grateful for money when it’s there and I celebrate my gratitude in many ways. When it’s not there, I’m grateful for the humility I experience in its absence. Whether it’s sexual preferences, work, money, a project, a goal or a desire of physical love; What I fear is how I will look to others when I open a window that is only mine to open. Will it be worthwhile opening the window? How will I know unless I open it?
Wishing upon a star – Manifesting Magic
Can I open a window and expect to not see others at all? Just me & the view? That’d be amazing! And then we’d open all the windows. Sounds impossible right? But it’s not. Manifestation is a mystical, cosmic superpower, called a ‘siddhi’, that a meditator discovers on his path. Like everything else, it is a divine gift which is the birth right of each one of us. Siddhis are here to help us proceed further on our soul’s journey to total enlightenment. Transcending all dualities to total freedom & and only pure love. Enlightenment broken down into two words is freedom & love. And Love is Freedom. Enlightenment is also our birth right.
A Siddhi, It is not meant to become attached to. Once manifestation ‘siddhi’ has served its purpose, a meditator must allow it to drop as well, if he wishes to proceed further into the unknown. To his highest potential. To the most divine experience. Also, regardless of our conditioned ‘view’ and preferences, we are unable to manifest anything of matter, a person, a body, a gender, money, a job etc. we are only able to manifest an unknown experience of how we wish to feel.
The Gift don’t belong to me
A ‘Siddhi’ is then essentially a gift. When inspiration (or calling as I call it) is there, before it is dropped, it can be shared. Sharing is giving and giving is the only language of Love. Sometimes Siddhis are a gift to earn a living and sometimes just to share.
Regardless of a home, a job, a person, a project, a car, a holiday or whatever else I manifest, it doesn’t belong to me. My ego certainly believes it all belongs to it but I know. I know, I’ve manifested it all into my reality for an experience that will push me forward on my own souls evolution. So I don’t fear loosing anything of what I experience. But when I experience it, I experience it so totally with intensity, that when it drops, I don’t miss it. We miss that which we’ve not fully experienced. What we’ve fully experienced, gets boring. Life is a journey of experiences.
A Siddhi will not always be in our experience. We will transcend experience itself in the journey of the soul’s conscious evolution.
Transcending experience to experience
Easier said than done though! So a simpler explanation would be to keep it simple 😊. Open the window without any expectation of a beautiful or ugly view, only with gratitude for whatever experience is to come. It is here for a reason. All windows are here for a reason. If we don’t open it in this life, we will in another life. If not in this dimension, then in another dimension. We are not separate from our experience, yet we are not our experience. Once the window is open, there will be the beautiful & the ugly. Both are Only an experience. Only a reflection of the beautiful & the ugly within us. Accepting both the beautiful & the ugly, is to accept ourselves completely. Also it ends the fight against the negative experiences we are fearful to encounter. Being non attached to the beautiful and being non-averse to the ugly.
Then to ‘be’ still and experience the beauty and become beautiful. To become the experience. We must ‘be’ it to transcend it. As we become more beautiful inside, the ugly will begin to vanish outside. Focusing on the Love not the preference. The experience not the money. Focusing on the mirror, not ‘them’. Reflecting the beauty, accepting the ugly, and just ‘being’. Wishes do come true, we can see the view we want to see, even a window without others; if we are just willing to ‘be’, non-attached & non-averse.
Surrender vs Giving up
I’ve experienced, in small and big manifestations on my journey; that the manifestation happens after surrender. Not ‘giving up’ but surrender. ‘Giving up’ doesn’t bring in manifestation. It brings in nothing. By ‘giving up’, we are cutting off the journey abruptly and the experience comes back in other forms until we learn to surrender. The window can be closed but the view cannot be unseen. Sometimes we come back lifetimes after lifetimes to repeat the experiences of unlearned lessons, just so that existence can bring us the blessings waiting lifetimes for our experience. Show us windows waiting to be opened for lifetimes at a stretch.
The ‘doing’, the effort is extremely important. The effort to create all the beauty in the windows we’ve opened. It is the effort, that brings us to a moment when we are ready to give up. Only effort can bring us there. But the soul never gives up. It knows that the experience is here for its own evolution & transcendence. So it surrenders the effort, the ‘doing’ and starts to go with the flow of life. It starts to see the beauty in everything life is showing it. Soul surrenders easy. It is not a doer. Ego don’t know surrender. We have to teach it. Or allow a master to do so. With surrender, Then we are co-creating. It is only then that manifestation can happen; if not in this lifetime, then in another. If not in this dimension, then in another. But the experience has been created with our ‘doing’ for us to align with it.
Gratitude before manifestation
All ‘Siddhis’ are beyond the ‘I’. The ego construct, concept, conditioning; call it whatever. The ‘I’ belongs to the same world of death and time. The world of concepts and illusions to control man. The more the ‘I’ dies, the ‘doing’ is dropped; the more ‘siddhis’ are earned. They’re like awards & acknowledgements on our worldly paths. But with an added advantage. Siddhis are here to push us forward on our journey. Only the manifestations that are in alignment with our soul’s journey, actually manifest. Only the Siddhis we need for our soul’s journeys, are earned. It is a co-creative process.
Channelling meaningless words is also a Siddhi on my experience of life. I’m grateful for words even before I begin to write. It would be wrong to say that I haven’t been writing much lately. I’ve been writing a fair bit but not blogs. I had gotten inspired to write a novel, over 3 months ago but only channelled an inspiring plot some three weeks ago. All my writing is being channelled into the book since. Fiction is hard to write and, ‘technically’, it’s my first. Apart from that, ‘Bhagwan’ wasn’t joking when he said I was ready to ‘be’ the New me in the world but not of it’. Moving into the post-development & pre-production phase of two projects that are developed to ‘show’ and entertain, with that which I attempt to ‘say’ through thousands of meaningless words. Also producing some content that is very close to my heart – mental health. I’m humbled because I was grateful even before they were ready for my experience! It sounds like a lot of ‘doing’ but really it’s not. I just open a window by saying ‘yes’ to life and then life itself does through me.
The stories I tell
The thing is, there are so many stories to tell. Different, unique views from different windows of life. But not all will align with my journey. Only the ones that move my soul will align with my journey. Some like to open their own windows, get inspired by their own view and tell a story & some like to see the view from the windows opened by others and tell an inspired story to more others. I enjoy the former, as long as the ‘I’ is still alive some.
I manifest my View
All our experiences are our own manifestations. At first, they are unconscious manifestations, then as we become more & more aware, we can consciously manifest our experiences. All these are manifestations of wishes I had at a point on my journey. My teenage experiences were manifestations of experiences that I needed for my journey ahead. To show me much later, where I was on my soul’s evolution. Everything happens as it is supposed to, when it is supposed to. In fact it is always happening. We must align with the happening. At this point, ‘I’ is on a different journey. The journey of its ‘death’ so that I can realize my highest potential. But my gratitude precedes the manifestations. I’m already grateful for the death of the ‘I’, the ego.
All of these manifestations are in alignment with my soul’s journey, it’s purpose; which is life itself. Which is the reason they are here, and there is no ‘I’ to decide, interfere or manipulate. Only a consciousness, to accept with gratitude, an experience to ‘watch’ that which is to be done through the journey of a non-doer. Every window, presents an opportunity to find a little more of ‘what I am’ and every window also places me in the sight of ‘others’, exposing me to their judgement. I can only experience the view meant for my individual sight, if I accept that I’m in ‘their’ sight, but that is of no value on my own individual experience of the view of life. If ‘they’ vanish inside, ‘they’ vanish outside. Like magic. It ain’t no magic. It is ‘I’ manifesting the view. When there is no ‘I’, there is no need for manifestation magic. Until then, ‘if it’s to be, it’s up to me’, to open the window.
Exceptional in my view
You see, ‘they’ are never at peace, never satisfied. And when ‘they’ see you at peace and happy & glowing, ‘they’ must pull you down to their vibration because life is a competition for ‘them’. So the more you focus on ‘them’ the more you will become ‘them’ too. Then you ‘do’ unto me as ‘they’ ‘do’ unto you. So I choose aloneness over ‘them’ on my journey. ‘They’ don’t exist in my View. It’s a new way of ‘being’ for me. Over the past few years of an inward and upward journey, I’ve lost touch with the outward ‘doing’. But …
‘I’ have opened the window ! 🪟 ‘Coz when there’s no ‘I’ to choose, and no ‘I’ to be manipulated, and no ‘I’ to be misunderstood; all the windows can remain open. My ‘view’ changes with the changing me. What remains unchanged is Love …
And the fact that everyone is different. Each one of us is unique. So unique that it almost seems like Humans were genetically engineered. But. … That is only how nature had it be. Nature’s rule in my view is ‘I am no different, if I’m different’. My view is that each of us is exceptional to our respective ‘they(s)’.
When I rise to being choice-less, situations present themselves with a choice, as a challenge to remaining choice less. This blog is inspired by a conversation my bestie and myself had a couple nights ago, over dinner. The conversation was about ‘The One’ as we call it. The one can really refer to anything that we believe is in true alignment with the expression of our being. Most literally the perfect match; be it a person, career, place, circumstance or thing. It is essentially ‘a wish list’, of all the qualities ‘the One’ must have to be ‘The one’ I pick.
The Conversation
So back to the conversation. My bestie has just returned from her first vacation with her boyfriend. At dinner, she is telling me all about her trip. New relationship, celebrating each other, understanding each other. So I ask her, ‘did you bond deeper?’ And she replies with a ‘yes, but …’ Essentially she likes him. He ticks all the boxes on that ‘wish list’ of ‘The one’. But she says, ‘I don’t feel the Love’. She hesitates for a moment as she says ‘Love’ but I’m so glad she still said Love & not spark. We all evolve through our own journeys. She says He’s everything on the list so I don’t wanna let such a great guy go. And because I’ve waited so long, I don’t want to settle either. Fair enough!
Although everything she said, was resonating with me, through my own past experience of ‘The One’ I picked by ‘The wish List’; we are all unique beings who write our story through actions arising out of our own individual experience of life. No two experiences are the same. Even a wish feels like a choice unless we can accept, transcend & be choice-less.
My approach to the Choice
Now I am approaching this conversation from a whole different kind of choice of ‘The One’ to pick for myself. An engagement ring 💍. ‘The One’ I’ve always wanted. When I had the opportunity to experience it in the way it is ‘supposed to’ be, engagement essentially, then I didn’t have the humbling ability to experience the one I’m to experience now 😊. Also I’d only be able to afford it through EMI instalments, as opposed to owning it cash down. A solitaire is a desire, I can’t love it; but it can always be a reminder for me and an expression of gratitude. The ring is the desire, what it celebrates is what I’m grateful for. As Love is God, Gratitude is prayer. Gratitude is the path to God!
I’m faced with my own choice, confused why that is; as I speak of being choice less 🤔. I’ve narrowed my search for ‘The One’ to the final two. I’m essentially buying the solitaire, which I’ve already picked. The setting is my confusion. It’s only the outward expression of the solitaire. One is by the ‘wish list’ and beyond, because my wish list was fairly humble. The other was not of the wish list at all but instantly drew me in. There was a spark. My expression through style, has always been flowing. Very feminine. The first one was exactly that. The one drawing me in was not what I ‘thought’ I liked. Contained & structured. The solitaire itself was rising upwards like a crown from within the structure. Like consciousness rising from the confines of the mind. It didn’t tick any of the boxes of the list.
Like When Love awakened in me. It was naturally flowing to him who didn’t tick any boxes but I was drawn to.
The conversation continues
My bestie asks me, ‘if he’s everything on the list, why don’t I feel the Love? And which way do I go?’ I reflect for a moment and allow myself to say, what has essentially inspired this blog post. I tell her, ‘I can’t tell you what to choose, no one can but I might be able to share why I feel you don’t feel the Love’
The wish list is a list, physical or mental, of all the qualities we would want in someone to be ‘The one’ I pick. The list includes everything we know we want or like. It don’t include that which we don’t know we like or don’t like. And even if it includes what we don’t like, it doesn’t include the rest that goes into making a being with all his layers. That stuff we may like or we may not like. A surprise or a shock. The wish list is not of what we Love, it is of what we desire. The person is the desire, the being is Love. And Love is a happening, not a doing or even a wishing. It usually happens when we’re not wanting. The wish list don’t include all that it takes for love to be awakened in me. Even when there’s an instant spark, sometimes Love never happens.
Spark & Love
Spark is the desire to know where the vibration the energy of another is at. The desire to know if this is ‘The one’. Essentially the desire to know if it’s a match. There is a mystery to it which slowly fully reveals itself, after the desire is achieved. Then the Spark is gone. Love is no mystery. Love is our true nature. When love is awakened by another, we just know it is there. Love May or may not be accompanied by a spark. Love has always known ‘The one’ to pick.
Spark is temporary unless channelled. Once it is channeled it can become permanent or for the long term in this current life. The same energy that expresses itself as desire, lust & greed, can be Channelled to be expressed as passion, drive & determination. Desire will die, passion can be made permanent. If you know that our journeys are never limited to a lifetime, then permanent is also temporary.
Love is eternal that is why it already knows. Knows that it flows innately in a direction. It is a pull. Being drawn to a person without knowing why. This is someone outside of the wish list. It is actually beyond it. It defies my past, my understanding of my own self & It defies my ego. This one is something more. And that ‘more’ is intimidating. Love is intimidating.
Permanent & Eternal
Permanent don’t change. It is a promise, that is binding. Something disciplined. It is mundane. Eternal is forever changing and evolving. Nothing & no one ever remains the same. Change is the way of existence. It is the only constant. When one is forever evolving & changing, we are presented with an opportunity to relearn the other again and again. It lives on in different forms. The intrigue is always reignited just by ‘being’.
A relationship can be temporary or permanent but Love will always be eternal.
The One for me
The one for me is the one that existence picks for me. It took a lot of meditation to get there. Until a couple months ago, however, I had only two points on a subconscious list for ‘The One’. Someone who creatively expresses his authenticity. And someone who is spiritual.
We are Conditioned to have a wish list of qualities that we want in the one. Essentially we want to be loved, needed by the one. But that is need not Love. The one is the one we want to give love to, we want to love, care for, nurture or protect. Who has awakened our own Love. He is the one that makes me want to give not take.
So since I ‘thought’ I wanted someone spiritual, Bhagwan showed me something. People who try to be spiritual, or who are essentially bored of spirituality but are attached to it as their ‘personality’ from a past, their act, or the ones who are in it for the wrong reasons; you take your pick. They have a tone of achievement instead of celebration in the expression of themselves. A true seeker or master of the self or another, will never accept he’s a master, no matter who comes and says ‘I learn from you’. He receives with gratitude and offers it to a higher source. A seeker, may or may not know how to give; but is always learning how to receive. Giving is not a huge problem, He doesn’t really know how to receive. So he celebrates everything he receives with gratitude.
I Love ‘The One’ I learn from.
I learn from a master, master of himself, his craft, his expression, or a master of many. A Master can really be anyone, a friend, lover, beloved, guru; who has my unconditional love & faith. Somehow, innately my love flows to those who I learn from. But as I’ve seen, A subtle way of feeding the ego is by expressing to the world that another holds you in high regard. As a sanyasin, I’ve seen that even under the disguise of a Maroon Robe & a Mala. The ego is the Human condition. The need to be needed. We all suffer from it to various degrees. Kind of like a fever.
Spirituality is the medicine to heal the Human condition. Spirituality is about the death of the ego. Nothing that feeds it is spiritual. So here we have what I wanted. ‘A spiritual being’ I can learn from. But with that we have a little extra too – a spiritual ego. Spirituality was on the list, spiritual ego was not. It was not even addressed.
An aware choice is Choice-less
Awareness is really about acting consciously. Knowing fully what energy, intention & impact we’re experiencing & putting out there with our action, choices & expression. Being able to see when we’re acting from the ego, the false & when we’re acting from the true self. In being aware to ourselves, we are aware of others too. In being true to ourselves, we see the truth of others too. We see things in them that we see in us. We are all mirrors, we just think everyone outside is a screen.
The one that celebrates the appreciation of others, is the Human condition
The one that is in celebration, in Gratitude, in Love, and in Devotion despite the others, is spiritual.
For example, when someone appreciates my celebration, prayer, devotion, to feed my ego, to get some ego stroked back; it is called flattering. It is the human condition. I can clearly see it but we all engage. And when someone just joins in my celebration without any appreciation, without any expectation; it is gratitude, is prayer, it is devotion & spiritual. He is there for him not me. We can be aware to this difference when faced with a choice. In awareness, we will be choice less as we can accept all as it is.
‘I’ pick ‘The One’
I’m not a friend who would help a friend to agree to my experience and go by that. I’m a friend who wants her to have her own experience, different from mine. It will be, because no two beings are the same. No two journeys are the same. Our journeys are what we are. And as Ram Dass says, ‘we’re all just walking each other home’.
All I can say at this point is that I know what I want. 🤩 I actually want the ring that I don’t want. 😁 Coz the one I want don’t draw me in and the one I don’t want does. Although diamonds are forever, I can’t be in love with it. I can be grateful for it. The one that draws me in, defies the wish list. Defies my past, defies what I ‘think’ I like. It’s ‘The one’ sent by existence. It’s the one I want to admire, look at, appreciate, care for. This one is nothing like I’ve experienced before. It’s an expression of who I am today and so I’m drawn to it. Simple. 😊 I’m grateful for this gift from ‘The Night Lord’.
The ring ain’t the gift. The understanding is. The understanding to have no list. To throw away the ‘Wish list’. To throw away all the wish lists, and to experience that which life itself has planned for me to experience. I got home & finally bought the ring I couldn’t even dream of; to celebrate the gift of understanding ‘The One’. I also got it engraved ‘From The Night Lord’. 😊
This Mercury retrograde season has been one ride for me, as I’m sure for us all. It’s been a journey through the peaks and valleys of ‘I am not’. What an ego shattering and humbling experience! But ‘I am not’ my experience and therefore I can share. It started while I was still back at the commune in late April. Something, completely unrelated to me, triggered me and as I usually do when I’m triggered, I turned inward to seek the source of the trigger. Although I first reacted instead of responding, Coz I didn’t wait for the trigger to settle.
The trigger itself was gone in a night. There was no need even for a response but the lesson was yet to be learnt. By guesswork I gave the right answer in that test by retracting my energy. The question confused me. I knew it was something that shouldn’t have triggered me yet I was and there was no source, no direction from where it came either. So I let it be. As Bhagwan says, when you relax, it comes to you. As I start penning this post, almost 5 weeks later, on the date that Mercury stations direct, I’m starting to finally see where the trigger originated from. It was from my own Inspiration(s). I found it interesting and something that we may all empathize with.
When tiggers become less and less, with continued healing; and a trigger presents itself, it is louder. It seems more important. This one’s root was not easy to find. It took me through many layers of my own conditioning of my relationship with ‘inspiration’.. But I didn’t know until now, what existence was showing me through this experience. I only know now as I pen an experience of ego death.
According to my western astrology birth chart, I’m all water, and according to my Vedic astrology birth chart I’m all Air. By that I mean, my Sun, moon and rising falls in all water or all Air signs. Water is emotion. Air is intellect. Together that’s emotional intellect. As my mother often says, Water or Air, it either flows or it takes the shape of the vessel it occupies. It has no shape or colour of its own. I’ve learnt with time, when I’m not flowing, I better choose a vessel I’m sure I wanna occupy. Bhagwan and sanyas seem to be that vessel for now, vast enough to contain me. Vast enough so I can be contained, yet I can flow. But trust me when I say, I haven’t always occupied the best vessels for me. They haven’t been from the unconditional vastness of existence, but only of the world. Nothing of the world can be vast enough to write my own story of the sky. Even if it’s ‘inspiration’.
My relationship with ‘inspiration’ is old. I’m rarely inspired by a person but when I am, it is total. By that I mean, I’m not inspired by who they are in the world (only), but rather by who they are as a being in totality. And the story that brings them here. My oldest inspiration, as clichéd as it may sound, is my mom. She is quite a rare being actually. My mom is what the world would call, a complete woman. She has worked 18 hour days for as long as I can remember. She’s an entrepreneur you see. But she is also somehow, a complete wife, mother, friend, daughter, sister, aunt, community club member, and so many other hats she wears which I don’t even know.
Everyone who’s ever known her, gives only two descriptions of her, ‘superwoman’ or ‘she’s always there’. I’ve already surrendered and said to her, ‘I can’t be you’. And yet with all she does, her only pain is, ‘I’m all alone’. She isn’t alone, alone. We’re all alone, she is only lonely even though she’s surrounded and celebrated by people all the time.
I’ve also been immensely inspired by the being of Late actor Smt. Meena Kumari. Everything about her, is mystical, to me. Not just as an actor, but also as a poetess, and as a strong feminine presence in the cinema of India. And most for her capacity to love. Maybe that is what existence returned to her as love from millions.
Her tragic life and her ability (or maybe requirement) to laugh it all off, has been inspirational for my own creative expression. Except, now that I write some here and there, I can see it is not the same. She writes of loneliness, and I write of aloneness. Her experience of life was lonely, my experience of life is alone. Lonely is tragic but alone is blissful. She writes of the pain of love, I write of Love itself. Essentially, she writes of worldly love, and I live in Divine Love. In Divine Love I found inspiration in Meera, which is a post for another time. Here I’ll only say that Meera had no pain, she was only love and celebration. The pain was around her. She felt nothing but love. And Love is God.
When I am inspired by someone, I identify with their being in some way. When I identify with their being, I accept all of that being; shadow and light. Pain and pleasure. Success and failure. On subconscious levels, I make it all mine. That is reflected in these two words, ‘my inspiration’. ‘I am not’ my inspiration. I have my own story to write. The one of my own being, inspirational or not. One that is written of my own experience & understanding of life. And that can only happen when ‘I am not’ my inspiration.
In 2019, I was going through a peak in a separation consciousness period, which was manifesting as a separation in my life. I remember reflecting on my years of inspiration with the stories of women I identified with. Meena Kumari ji, holds a very special place in my heart. I’ve learnt alot from her of art, artist and life. My bonding to her capacity to love & thereby her pain too, definitely strengthened me to the idea of a life alone during that whole year. But yet, upon reflection, I didn’t want to be lonely. In 2020 a decision, changed my perspective from lonely to alone. During COVID, I moved base, and started falling in love with aloneness. Being my best friend. In 2021, I was initiated and found sanyas, the true celebration of aloneness, alone or in communion. It is choice less.
The trigger was essentially a fear of loneliness which I reacted to fight back in the face of it. I needed to accept & not fight. I was scared of the loneliness that comes with achievement, for all of my conscious life. That is why I always chose Love over success, dream achievement, goals. I’d seen enough people around me, have a perfect life on the outside but feel lonely inside. I’ve been inspired by those whose lives I don’t want. If there is one thing I want, it is to just ‘be’ me.
It was the fear that I was carrying from my identification with the pain of my inspiration(s). It is not my story and It is not mine to carry. In identifying with an inspiration’s story, expression or being, I take on all of their shadows as well, their pains as well. Now I’m in love with my aloneness and that makes the fear of loneliness quite baseless. When I’m happy alone, how can I be lonely? But I was carrying the fear inside of me which certainly needed a big enough trigger to come to the surface and be released. It’s old fears that create a blockage in our own experience of Love, of freedom, of life, as Rumi said. That pain has no place in my experience of life anymore.
The trigger itself, came from a source, who is an inspiration as a being for me in many ways. I am not even my own pain, my own experiences. I am separate from all of that. I’m on a journey of ‘what am I’; Then how can the pain, expression or experience of another be mine.
‘I am not’ my inspiration. ‘I am not’ even my experience. I can remain inspired to experience my own; but I need not identify with my inspiration, with their pain essentially. Unless I want to experience pain too. When I identify with them, I’m accepting all of their being, their shadow & their light. If I do, I’m letting a narrative, idea or story, another’s expression of the understanding, the experience of life; have control over me. So I react. Even if the circumstances are similar, no two stories are the same, Coz no two beings are the same. We are all unique. I express my own as I write my own.
When I saw, in someone I’m inspired by, that which I was carrying in me of another, I was triggered. In all honesty, it seems like I was shown it, so I would be triggered. Only a couple people in the world, can actually trigger me still, only because there is obviously some attachment to their being still. Connections of the silence, take longer to understand. First the silence must be understood, then my reaction to it. And then to top that, a Mercury Retrograde.
Am I regretful for my reaction? Well, honestly, I’m a bit embarrassed, a bit surprised at life for the way it chooses to teach; and yes sorry! but had I suppressed my expression of my trigger in that moment, I’d never get to the root of it and understand it. I’d never ask, ‘why’ did I react, what was triggered? It was so deep rooted. In understanding is healing. In healing is freedom. So if anything I’m grateful for the experience. Grateful for the understanding that, ‘I am not’ my inspiration.
We are the creators of our own destiny, that’s true. And our destiny is already written in the stars, that’s also true. Both statements separately are half truths, which is just that – half truth, not The truth. Together they are the truth. Some have experienced their story as a creation of their own efforts. Some have experienced a story handed to them. Certainly, most of us will stand by one or the other statement. The human condition, makes everything a debate or a choice based on our own experiences. It is only a reflection of the duality of existence manifesting through our dualistic perspective of life. Our ‘actions’ create our destiny but the circumstances for our actions must also be created. That is what existence, universe, call it whatever, does for us. Destiny, is a co-creative journey, before, during & after each incarnation. Existence is the director, we are the actors, but we are both writing the script together as we go.
A co-creative process, involves two, my being and the universe. Let’s call it the sky for this post. Everything that happens in our skies, cosmos created (or man-made), has an impact on our planet. When the moon rises, the tides of the ocean also rise. We ourselves are 70% water. If we work on our connection to the sky, attempt to understand it; obviously our ‘working’ relationship with it, will be better. In turn, the sky will understand us too. After all, we are partners in crime 😁
The sky is contradiction
I channel this post as a reflection on the current Gemini New moon. The Moon of the twins. The moon of duality. The moon of the Yin & Yang. Essentially, the shadow & the light. Of the contradictions. A new moon is of the darkness in any case. It isn’t a time to look outward because the outside is dark, no sun, no moon either. We can see nothing but the sky can still see us. On a New moon, the sky is intently watching us, at what’s inside us. In many ways, it is a moment in time for prayer. For gratitude.
The moon itself is of the dark. When the sun is shining it’s light elsewhere, the moon reflects the light of the sun to illuminate the darkness. The sun & the moon are having the same effect on the planet, on us. They are both illuminating. The sun is shining on the outside in the light of day, the moon is illuminating in the darkness of the night. The sun brings it out in the open, the moon knows but keeps it hidden. The moon reflects the suns light to illuminate. The moon itself, ‘She’ is just existing. She can’t ‘do’. This in itself is the complete story of yin & yang. The shadow & the light. All other planets that affect our being on planet earth, are also of the shadow or the light & further have their own shadows & light to work with. Both are a reality. There is no choice here. Truth is in the contradiction of the sky.
What does the Gemini New Moon sky say?
I was inspired to channel this post all the way through, by including a breakdown of a Tarot reading with each section. Tarot essentially is a tool to support the intuition of a mystic in reading individual or collective energy. The energy which existence, the sky creates. The circumstance for our actions, our ‘acting’ essentially. As by rule, I must add a disclaimer, this part may or may not resonate with you as it reads for many. Take what does & leave the rest.
The energy showing up for this Gemini new moon is speaking to the Masculine. Regardless of our gender, the face we carry in the world. The part of us that shows up in the world. You can call him the doer, I’m beginning to see him as more and more of a ‘non-doer’. The way we show up in the world depends on our actions; acting as I’m calling it these days. This ‘acting’ depends on how we perceive ourselves, our character. Character is consistent but truth is contradictory. So character ain’t authenticity. We can only act truest to Our authenticity in that moment.
This new moon of duality speaks to that actor in us. It encourages us to show up in our authenticity by embracing both the faces of duality within us in that moment, with no expectation or promise of a future. How we act in this moment is already aligned with a future we are to experience, yet reaching that by transcending the duality, will obviously present us with something that’s not exactly as we had expected or promised. There are so many possibilities. Our truth in that moment will differ. The transcendence of the duality will be neither this nor that and both. A third kind, co-created with the sky. This is ultimately moving our journey fast forward with intensity and passion.
Card explanations
The two faces of the situation are in the cards above. These could be two brothers, friends, partners, competitors or just two different faces of our own selves in the situation. Represented as kings, there is maturity with which we can look at a situation right now. Both faces are mature. One is of the sky & one is of the earth. One is of the mind & the other is of the home. And home is where the heart is.
The king of Air (swords) on the left of the picture above, is crystal clear, honest, fair, just and truthful to the self. He knows his true face but still wears a thin mask to hide a part of him. An important part of him, his eyes. He is wise, intelligent and can be calculative. He is impeccable with his word and serious even in Love. You can’t debate with this man. The blue in the card talks about communication and coldness. A-lot of the times, he speaks only to restore fairness & justice, or to share wisdom. If he works through the shadow, he can be manipulative and hurtful. He can be closed due to hard experiences of his past.
The king of Earth (pentacles) in the centre of the picture, is in contrast, grounded, hard working and humble. He maybe a businessman or not, but he is certainly self made. He has worked hard. No one leaves his home hungry. He is abundant and grateful for all he has. With what he has, he creates opportunities of abundance for others. Abundance for him is where he can provide a sense of belonging. Where he feels a sense of belonging. What he can call home, to provide, protect and to belong. What he can commit to. If he works through his shadow, he can be materialistic and arrogant. He is always open, either as a giver or as a show off.
This new moon in Gemini is asking of the acceptance of both these faces, whether it’s within ourselves or in a connection we share with another. Once we accept the half truth presented by both, we can transcend to a choice less place that includes both and is neither. The third kind. That then pushes our journey forward with intensity and passion towards the future we can’t know but can experience in co-creation with the sky. They seem to be enjoying the journey amidst the fire balls in the card on the right of the picture.
Truth is Freedom
Truth, as I mentioned above, is subjective because it is only half truth when operating in the conflict of dualities. Both together make up the full truth. So in transcending duality we find the truth, which is both and neither. For example, the institution of Marriage. Personally, I’m all for Love & celebrating it in Union but I’m not for Marriage. That doesn’t mean I’m against it. I just don’t see marriage as synonymous with union or love. One can be in love and union without being married. Yet it is how it is and is followed unquestioned. So if we want companionship, we automatically think marriage. And if we don’t want marriage, we automatically are opposed to the idea of love or union. We unconsciously push love away both ways. In marriage we slowly kill it. The most crucial energy for evolution is Love. Both ways we are blocking evolution. Love/union and marriage; They are actually not connected.
Attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin of duality. In non-attachment to marriage (or anything else), we need not be averted to it. So we need not choose this or that. Freewill gives us a choice. But choice is not freedom. Accepting both and transcending both aspects of dualities, gives us freedom from needing to choose. Freedom is in being choice-less. So non-attachment & non-aversion is the path to truth. In truth is freedom. Freedom from ourselves and our blockages co-created with the sky.
They say that a ‘sadhak’, a meditator is un-affected by the skies. Actually that is not entirely true. A meditator, is still affected by the skies but is slowly transcending the dualities presented by the skies. A meditator, learns to work with the energies that the skies present and also has a higher perspective on life. He just sees presented circumstances with higher emotional, mental and spiritual intellect. He just keeps experiencing freedom by transcending conflict – inner & outer. The conflicts created by duality. He finds truth in the freedom essentially. Freedom from the conflict created by the split of duality.
What is the truth of the Gemini New Moon sky?
The cards show me that, the Gemini New Moon is showing us how far we’ve come, even though we feel stuck. We’ve felt stuck in situations that are out of our control. It’s almost like the universe has hung us upside down. But for good reason. Wherever we’ve felt stuck, we’ve also found illumination and a new perspective. Something which we were looking at upside down, now seems to make sense. We’ve been under the energies of a retrograde Mercury for the last month or so. Mercury rules the sign of Gemini and is the planet of communication. Much of our interpretation of information or communication over the last month, is likely going through a shift now. We are seeing things very differently now as Mercury stations direct 3 days after the New moon. Mercury is most potent in its energy during its stations retrograde or direct, within 3 days on either side.
With this new found perspective, we can see how to break out of a stuck situation, circumstance or relationship. The cards show a recognition and victory by way of our own efforts. It’s also about the future we see and want to experience. We want to recognize someone who has certainly helped us on this victory. I also see that this celebration of the journey of victory with the other, may need to happen away from the crowd, the people or the public. Most literally, these cards talk about action after a stagnant period. It can be in any area of life but certainly something (a creative project/partnership) or someone (friend/companion/lover/beloved/guru) we are passionate about.
Consistency is conformity
Certainly in a 9-5 job that we don’t enjoy, we are conforming to society, most literally. Conforming to a herd. We conform in other ways and areas of our lives too. To ideas, ideologies, individual experiences, social structures, family conditioning etc. In our relationships, or anywhere in life for that matter, we are conditioned to what ‘it’ must look like or feel like. So we are conforming to an idea, one created by our past experiences or one we’ve picked up from the world outside. Conforming makes me reliable & predictable. For example, I’m known to have literally run away from most stressful situations in my life. This was before my spiritual journey began in 2016. Bags packed and off to the other side of the globe. I’ve lived out of fancy suitcases since 2012 😊. It’s fun & it’s not. The duality. I may not be reliable to others, I’m still predictable. They know how to deal with me, encourage me or manipulate me. When I’m predictable, I can be controlled. They know I’ll just run. Now I don’t run, I travel. It’s a bit more unpredictable. Now I have nothing to run from and nothing to run to. So I travel. 😊
Character is consistent but we’ve already established that the truth is in contradiction. Anything repeated to us multiple times is essentially hypnosis. That’s what marketing works on, advertising, sales, essentially the whole world. Mass hypnosis. What we are consistently told about ourself, builds our character through hypnosis. The character is consistent in conforming to its character. And the character is predictable. This New Moon gives us the opportunity for freedom from consistent conformity or consistent non-conformity. An opportunity to break out of the limitations of our own character, in many ways.
Where does the Gemini New Moon present an opportunity to break out of the mould?
Most literally in our most intimate & important connections, relationships or partnerships. The lovers card in the picture above is the card of Gemini, the twins in Tarot. The two of water (cups) is a connection of equals based in love. For me as a reader, it is the card of twin flames & spiritual partnerships. It can most literally be talking to Divine counterparts. Regardless of the type of connection, it is based in love, plutonic or romantic. With the sun card, there’s complete conscious illumination at this new moon of what makes us joyful in our connections and what doesn’t. Where there’s light and where there’s the darkness. With the lovers, there’s a choice to choose Love or not. But as I say, the sky doesn’t present us with a choice. Whatever the connection or relationship clarity we have found, is either reaching a breakthrough or a breakdown moment, depending on how we show up. We can see that with the clarifying card at the bottom. I do see a fear of breakdown that may keep us in an old way of acting (showing up). Essentially, keep us in the mould. This new moon energy presents us with an opportunity to be ‘acting’ (showing up) differently for a breakthrough despite the fear of breakdown.
What I’m seeing here is the affects of a Saturn stationing retrograde about 5 days after this new moon. Saturn is the teacher of the shadows. Naturally to teach you, he will take you into the shadows. He teaches a lesson for 2 and a half years and depending on your relationship to Saturn, how you worked with him & how you did on your tests; he leaves you a gift as a reward. When Saturn moves backward (retrograde) it takes us back over the lessons, to test us on what we’ve learnt. Saturn in many ways is the conformist because he is consistent. He is about the discipline but he is also the giver of karma, which doesn’t conform to any laws of the world. Saturn conforms to the ‘laws of the universe’, the sky. He rewards consistency of the individual only to the self.
Consistency is also rewarded in the ‘laws of the universe’
The sky rewards consistency by simplifying & beautifying the journey. The consistency to be aligned at all times with our own truth, even if it’s contradictory to our own outer character, past, narrative, ego or whatever else. That is how we transform our outer reality by transforming the inner reality. The Individual being the new face of society gives you the freedom to be authentic and well … you. It is a privilege that some will never know. Yet it can be isolating. The more authentic we are, the more isolated we will be. The duality, the contradiction is the truth, and will always be there in everything. That imperfection is the perfection of existence. Perfection is not the way of the sky. Regardless of the changeable and so perceived ‘non-changeable’ circumstances of our incarnation. We can change our experience of every aspect of life by being consistent to ourself by transcending the contradictions of duality. We can achieve that by being consistent in our practice, no matter the chaos. Whatever the practice may be. The sky only asks for it to be co-creative.
Where is the Gemini New Moon asking for consistency?
This New Moon is in some wonderful alignment with Pluto, the planet of transformation & the ruler of the underworld. Pluto is an outer planet that Vedic astrologers don’t consider in a birth chart, as Vedic astrology is focused on the individual. Western astrology, which comes about post the establishment of society, also considers Pluto as a means to read the collective energy. Vedic astrology works on the principal that the individual is the society and western astrology, rightfully also says that the society impacts the individual. Both together are correct and again are a reflection of duality manifested in differences.
Our truth is subjective until we transcend it to be both and neither. A third kind. For example the collective self expression with the rising collective consciousness of mankind, is more diverse than ever because of the individual wanting to express his own authenticity. It is a movement in it self. An attempt to express authenticity through creativity. We can either evolve to be truthfully consistent with our own creative expression. Or consume the expression of others to form an idea. Creativity is an expression of the sky. The sky has manifested through creativity, in all of us too. It breathes in all of us. As an individual creative expression. Of course creativity is an individual expression and May or may not add to a collective voice. But it is consistent to the evolved self, even if it is contradictory to the self of the past.
In short, being inspired by the creative expression of another is to be able to see the ocean from a distance, which is not an experience. It is consumption of creativity. To taste the ocean, to really be the ocean, to be creative; is to create your own, to approach the ocean and take a dip. Whatever that may be. For me I’ve found some in words and some in dance. As Bhagwan says, it is only in dance that the dancer and the dance are one and the same. I don’t care to be good or even to be seen or heard, I care only to express.
With social media and digital platforms, I find the same analogy. Everything reflects duality. You build a relationship to it based on where you are on the transcendence of the duality that rules it. The digital medium is a great medium for creative self expression, and it is also a platform that has been built to expand on the Human condition – the need to be needed, loved, heard. Where I come from in my truth in that moment; my expression/sharing or the Human condition, is really my only problem. The rest is outside of me, that the sky takes care of. I can’t be concerned with how it is perceived. At least I shouldn’t.
Card explanations
The cards show that it is not quite time to charge ahead. The chariot card in all honesty came out reversed but I don’t read these cards reversed. It tells me that, With the new found clarity on what celebration means to us, we will be moving forward when the duality in the situation has balanced out. Both together can then pull the chariot ahead. It needs both its horses, the yin & the yang. The shadow and the light. Right now, at least until mercury is out of shadow, around mid month, it’s time for rest, rejuvenation and reflection to integrate the lessons and blessings of the eclipse season that went by just before this new moon.
The clarifiers below, show me, Whatever this is, once it moves forward, requires truthful and honest conversations that set everyone free. It seems to be the last resort to forward a dream that we are passionate about. The larger lessons of transformation that Pluto has shown us through the collective, has an opportunity to be integrated through this rest period, into our journeys ahead.
We all live under the same sky
The sky is the same for all of us. The same sun, the same moon, the same planets and the same alignments. Yes they will affect different areas of our individual life based on where the planets sit in our birth charts. But the sky is the same for all of us. Pluto rules the underworld, that’s oil & wars. It is there as a reality mankind lives through at the collective level and with its impact on the individual.
But at the same time, we have a Saturn always teaching us strategy. Rightful ‘action’ for rightful karma, in the face of conflict. We also have a mercury, to teach us that the interpretations of our words and actions only depend on the receiver, not us. The sun to bring it out, the moon to illuminate. The sky is full of the shadow and the light and it’s contradictions. The sky itself is holding all its elements, it is unconditionally loving to exist through us, despite our conflicts. It loves the whole, the war and the peace. It is above the conflict of duality. We are existence manifested and have the potential to be above the conflict of duality. We just need a relationship with our partner – The Sky.
The challenge presented by the Gemini New Moon
The Gemini New moon is breakthrough or breakdown moment, as we saw above. The fear of the breakdown, is the challenge to the breakthrough essentially. The fear is based on only one face of duality. The one we’ve experienced. Fear blocks us from experiencing the other, so we can’t transcend the duality and experience freedom. There are two fives in the tarot cards above. That’s change. One that we have no control over. Our partner, the sky creates the tower, a breakthrough or breakdown moment. Our action, inaction or non action, moves the story of our destiny.
In this moment of change, we have help in one (left) card that we see. And in the other (right) card we have a blockage. A fear, of another drowning, or of our character on letting someone drown, or our past. We are already moving our attention in both cards towards where there’s the light, the hope, but the blockage gets louder in the moments of breakthrough. In the face of this challenge, here’s an opportunity to accept that the blockage is there and let it be. At the same time to be consistent with our truth and accept the light, hope, the help too. It maybe contradictory to our past to not save someone from drowning but it’s also consistent to our own truth. In the cards, we’re coming out of a tough place ourselves.
The opportunity presented by the Gemini New Moon
Most literally a gift from the sky. From our partner in crime. An opportunity to create a destiny of abundance as we see it or wish for it. Either we’ve come into our own creative freedom of expression, through the expression of our own inner feminine; or a free spirited feminine energy in our lives has catalyzed a major transformation that cannot be stopped. It is essentially an opportunity to allow transformation to ground into physical reality, a new seed straight from the skies. This seed however comes with a guarantee of complete physical abundance, whatever that literally means to you.
With the clarifier below, the sky is creating an opportunity here, the stage for our acting, to escape challenges, with another and move our journey forward, with intensity and passion.
Chaotic Discipline
So that means we can change our world completely by transcending the contradictions & being consistent to our own truth. Essentially by rising up to the sky and befriending it. We have that power. That’s a superpower. God like power. But it ain’t easy to get to. It’s hard work, can be challenging and can get very monotonous, especially the consistency part. I started to find that ‘work’ is easier and fun in ‘chaotic Discipline’. Bhagwan used that word and I instantly identified with it.
A lot of people in my life have called me ‘procrastinator’, but it’s only chaotic discipline. For instance, I live out of three countries technically at the moment. Each of the countries has a space that I call home. Well Nepal literally does, and Goa soon to be. And Canada is home most literally. Because I feel a sense of belonging in all of these places. In my truth they all align with different layers of my being.
At the commune in Nepal, the environment presented by the sky, asks for devoted discipline. I meditate and study over 8 hours a day there. In Goa, I enjoy my aloneness. the sky presents an environment which asks for dedicated discipline and reflection. I meditate and study for about 5 hours a day. In canada, I’m lazy, yet there’s so much to do. So I meditate only 2 hours a day and spend the rest of my time experiencing the outer world of family, friends, the luxuries of the outside world and a lot of nature.
My own truth is both inward and outward, both yin and Yang. I accept fully the chaos, it creates in my journey. Travelling all the time. Never getting too comfortable in one spot. The circumstances presented by the sky dictate the consistency of my meditative practice. But my practice itself is not consistent as you can see. It is mouldable with the changing circumstance. I’ll get the work done, I may do a little at a time, I may do it after I experience the sunset, which I’ll miss if I do it now. But it’ll get it done.
Being able to be fully present to where I’m being called by the director in the moment, is the actor’s job. That is how the Job will get done. That is not procrastination, it is Chaotic Discipline.
My understanding of Krishna Consciousness. Krishna’s attempt with the Gita was to help mankind keep their energy centre at the heart before it rises to the mind. Krishna is all heart. But we are mostly mind. Living from the heart is what more & more of us must do. Those who can of course. So many can only live to survive. But the ones who can raise the collective vibration of our planet, should do it individually. If I’m consistently contradictory too, I’m essentially consistent. In truth, I’m sometimes consistent and sometimes contradictory. And that is contradictory itself. The contradiction of the heart is closer to truth than the consistency of the mind
In the chaos of duality, where should our focus be at this Gemini New Moon?
Our focus should be on where our intensity and passion is driving us. Letting the past be in the past, not crying over spilt milk, and charging forward with intensity and passion, AND the wisdom of the sphinx we now have, in the bottom right card in the picture above. This is where a new cycle, a new journey has already begun.
The past as we saw in the cards above, always plays on our doubts and fears to keep us blocked. To transcend the duality in this situation we must focus on the new, not the better.
Final words from the sky
‘You have healed and your wishes will come true, through the inspired action you take but it will need moving forward from what holds you back, even if it’s with a heavy heart’
– The sky through the cards above
Advise From the Sky
Please read the cards in the picture above. Thank You 🙏🏻
The Journey of a Mystic is full of silence. Mystical silence. The Mystic may be an introvert or an extrovert. He most likely will be both. And therefore earlier in life he don’t quite understand where he fits. I didn’t for a long time until I understood that we’re all mystics. They themselves don’t know where I fit. We are all Unique and broken at different places, like puzzle pieces that connect only if you find the right ‘other’ piece. By right I mean, broken at the right other places. Yet all of that other piece cannot be connected to me. We’re all connected to different pieces of the same puzzle to complete our individual picture and to play our part in the larger picture which is forever unfolding. We’re not meant to fit in just anywhere fully. A mystic will always see things his own way. He is always seeking or searching for something. If he is not, then he is just being, watching, observing.
A mystic is essentially a being, who understands that he is a being in a world but also sees that he is a manifestation of a large vastness of ‘no-thing-ness’, where lie the mysteries of life. And the truths of it. He sees himself as so much of a nothingness that he very well can fit in anywhere, but he don’t want to and/or need to. A mystic essentially is a more evolved consciousness through lifetimes of ‘work’. A consciousness that essentially understands that ‘ordinary is extraordinary’, really in today’s world. Some Mystics have a natural ability to be surrounded by people from an early age. The ones who tell the stories of the other world and seem like a story themselves.
What took me back to a Mystic’s childhood?
Recently, just before I left the Tapoban International commune in Nepal, I had watched an exceptionally made documentary on my Master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. It really did affect me in ways that humbled me on many levels. Bhagwan was a very difficult yet determined child who was raised by his grandparents in a village in Madhya Pradesh. He had some friends who’s parents were forever trying to stop them from befriending Bhagwan. He was naughty. But he was a friend for life with the friends he had. They were few. I personally feel like Bhagwan didn’t even care to fit in or about being rebuked either, from a very early age.
Bhagwan says his immense respect and Love for the woman comes from his grandmother, who raised him with unconditional Love and freedom, despite what she had to face from society, because of how he was. He says he learned the strength and capacity of a woman’s love through watching his grandmother. The reason Bhagwan was raised by his grandparents is that he was an unwell child. He was on medications for asthma, and other health conditions since the earliest years of his life. His health was being monitored medically; and astrologically. His birth chart had predicted, his death at either the age of 7, 14 or 21. His story took me back to a Mystic’s childhood.
‘His’ Story
At the age of 7, Bhagwan fell very I’ll but survived death. By the age of 14, he sat his family down and told them, ‘if death is to come, let it come, let’s embrace it and not sadly, so I can go in peace.’ Bhagwan was raised in a Jaina family and argued with Hindu priests about idol worship and with Jaina monks about the representation of women in religions, from an early age. Yet he decided to move to a temple so he can embrace death away from his family. He said ‘I can’t see your sad faces till then. I’ll wait for death at the temple.’ He asked the priest at the temple to give him food once a day and water.
Before that, Bhagwan had a few dear friends, who always complained to Bhagwan, then called Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, that their parents keep scolding them for hanging out with Bhagwan. Naturally, Bhagwan only made them laugh, and believe. He was a very silently rebellious kid. One who’d let his actions speak for themselves. His ‘acting’ as I’m calling it these days 😊. He’d have them believing stories of a plane from another world that would take them all away from nagging parents. I tell you, he has me believing many a thing, only to evolve me, by breaking that very belief. Bhagwan, he has a knack to control your consciousness but he has no agenda. All he has is love ❤️ and creative expression. Together, yes that can feel like hypnosis but one that awakens, not puts me to sleep. I’ve seen on my own journey, many have discovered this knack to control but there is a difference in ‘doing’ it, and allowing it to be done through the ‘being’.
Bhagwan loved to play the flute. Sitting by the river in his silence. This river was quite strong in current and most would not come back alive if they jumped into it. Bhagwan would take a dive every day from the high marble rocks, for years after completing his flute session. One day, a friend of his jumped in right after him, and never returned. Bhagwan threw his flute in the river and never played again. It was like ‘He’ was expressing his anger at something. This particular incident took me back to my own childhood, to an incident which isn’t even important here; but the awakening to the fact of how protected a mystic is, humbles me. ‘I’ feel small before the vastness of nothingness that protects me. Then I remember some more of how ‘I am not’.
His Death
A 14 year old Bhagwan lay in a temple waiting for death. He saw a snake approaching. Says, he embraced death even before it came in the form of that snake. Looked at it and said, ‘let it come’. And in that moment, in Bhagwan’s words, ‘something of the deathless came alive’. Something that never dies. He awakened in that moment to the illusion of death. The snake approached Bhagwan, crossed over him and left the temple through the other side. No death for Bhagwan at 14 either but he was now awakened to the deathless. In a sense to the immortality of his consciousness.
Bhagwan was essentially born on March 21st, 1953, when Rajneesh Chandra Mohan was enlightened. He was 21 at that point and had a personal library of over 150,000 books which he had read. On that day, after a series of blackouts and extreme headaches over the past few months, Bhagwan attained enlightenment. Medical doctors had predicted death for him in the coming months. He, as many other enlightened masters, has tried to explain what enlightenment really feels like. Actually, it’s not even a feeling. Feeling has been transcended. He said it is a state of total awareness. Awake even while the mind and body are asleep. The consciousness is not even in the body. It is connected to the body by a thin cord and floats above the body. Watching everything. Essentially, the being is dead. The consciousness has separated itself from the body with the being & is only using the body for a purpose bigger than the body and the person. The purpose of existence. Existence is controlling that body & mind.
Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, later to be known as one of the most dangerous mystics of modern times, died at the age of 21 on 21st March, 1953. Yet he was protected in a way that he took the responsibility of protecting all his disciples, and their loved ones. He didn’t speak for 3 and a half years post that incident. Continued his studies and joined a college as a standby professor. That’s when ‘they’ started to notice, he wasn’t no teacher, he was a Guru, a mystic. A teacher of the art & science of life. In his body or not, he goes the length to protect his disciples till date, as he teaches them just by silently being there. And says, ‘I’m no master’ 😊
The Mystical Master
In late 2017 I had experienced a breakdown moment. Both professionally/financially and emotionally. I was looking for guidance which wasn’t available in the world outside. I remember telling a friend, my then sister in law, ‘I don’t think I’m worthy of a master’. This was barely a year into my spiritual practice. She’d been on a journey for 4 years already. She reminded me, ‘what you seek is seeking you.’
That night I dreamt of a black snake for the last time. My mother saw 3 baby snakes when she was 3 months or so pregnant with me. They were playing with her puppy. After that, Snakes in my dreams have tortured me throughout the time I lived with my ex. I learnt very early in my relationship with him, that the women that marry into their family, dream of snakes as a protection of shiva. My ex belongs to the ‘Pushkarna Brahmins’ tribe of people. Worshippers of shiva, and his great grandfather is regarded a reincarnation of shiva. Essentially, Bhagwan. Attained to God Consciousness.
It was like, that night shiva took me over from the snakes himself, to show me a path, which ultimately lead to my first stage of surrender, almost 4 years later. I never felt the lack of guidance after that. Of a guru, a master. When I surrendered, it felt like all of the gods & masters were aligning things for me. I had to do nothing. I had surrendered without a master! Had I really? My divorce was finalized to begin with. And as we both say now, it may have been the best decision we took for ourselves. My family started to recover from financial difficulties. My sister got into med school residency. I myself, finally had some accomplishment in the world that don’t hold me or my attention for long 🙄. But I’m grateful for the ability it gave me to stand on my own. Regardless, what happened within a month of that though, was miraculous and mystical.
I dreamt of the swamiji at the Tapoban International commune. I’d never seen him or a picture of him. But in my dream, I knew, he was the swamiji of a friend of mine from calgary. Which started a series of almost unexplainable events that I can’t even begin to try to explain. It is a blog post in itself. So I’ll leave that for another time. But here, I landed myself at the osho Tapoban international commune. I was brought face to face (well consciousness to consciousness) with a master, who has lived & walked this planet. Did I have an aversion to the idea of sanyas? Being a follower? I wasn’t even thinking sanyas or following! It was school! I was thinking learning and I was thinking uniform 😊. The commune really does take me back to some of the best days of my childhood, boarding school at Sherwood College in Nanital, India. A preparation for this ? 🤔
He was quiet, but he was always there
When I was around 5 or so, it’s hard to go back to memories before that; I remember my mother used to read osho, then he was called Bhagwan Rajneesh on all his books. Really, osho is just a brand so I prefer not using that name. He was still in his body then. She stopped reading him, she says, ‘after I realized that if I’d continue, I’d leave your father’. Yes Bhagwan tends to have that affect on you. He makes you so self loving, self respecting and independent; that you want to be free and give freedom too. Freedom is Love. In freedom love is alive. At the same time, he says, ‘I’m pointing you to the moon, look at the moon & forget my finger. If my finger is a blockage on your path, I’ll even destroy my finger.’ We can’t leave him, ‘He’ leaves us when his part is done. My mother never spoke of Bhagwan. He was very personal to her. She now tells me, ‘I believe it is in reading him that I also found one of my best friends in your father.’ 😂 the contradictions of Bhagwan, you can see it in her. And I tell her now, ‘you raised me & my sister the same way. He is in us too but you just don’t know it’.
Bhagwan says, ‘a master must work on you in ways you don’t understand or even know, until you’re a master’. When my ex and myself moved to Canada, he’d watch a $#!t load of Bhagwan’s videos. He’d ask me to watch too. But I’d never be interested. I asked him, ‘why do you watch Osho’s videos?’. All he’d say was, ‘The man doesn’t blink’ 😂 but I guess he watched Bhagwan and that had some affect on him. I tell you, my divorce has been the most amicable divorce in the history of mankind. 😊 Okay that’s exaggeration, I’m sure there are others. Bhagwan, and his philosophies are everywhere. But I’m grateful.
Our marriage was a play, we got married only because our elders wanted to see us married. Our divorce was also a play. Yes emotional. Very emotional but a matter of fact. Truth was written all over it. It was not heavy on the conscious. We ultimately chose the friendship, the connection over a marriage. Our connection to tell stories. We can’t make a story, the two of us. We can only tell a story together. It is outward focused. Only of one dimension.
In many ways Bhagwan has been there. He’s been quiet, but he’s always been there!
My mystical journey of surrender
A spiritual being, having a human experience is a drop of the ocean looking at the ocean and knowing that essentially it is the entire ocean. A mystic, is a drop of the ocean, ready always to drop into the ocean and become it. Essentially, the only difference between a spiritual being and a mystic, is that a mystic is ready at all times to loose its identity of the drop forever to become the ocean. The difference between looking at the sky from a window or standing outside under the open sky. The experience is certainly different. This readiness to experience at the cost of ‘anything’ is surrender. Which comes from faith of knowing, all is as it should be.
My first surrender, preceding my sanyas came from this validated understanding. I was already a sanyasin, my sanyas was only an outward manifestation of how far Shiva had already brought me. The Shiva in me. My Masculine divine. Inner & outer. After my Sanyas, I was shown on many levels, the darkness that surrounds my own spiritual path of Love. And how my only control was over my own inner masculine to push to the light. The doer in me. I did everything I could within myself to protect my spiritual journey and connection, I’d known so far. I did it with detachment, it was my truth at the time. But was it really detachment? I was only devoted to my path at that point. The intention was right but my surrender wasn’t total. I was still the doer.
After that, my second surrender happened 8 months after my sanyas. It was like, I almost touched my wish and it was gone. It was gone, so I could understand the non-doer. The ego death that came with the experience, was humbling. I was ready to fully surrender my wish, and prayed that my being is used to do the important ‘work’ that I’m very much capable of and live my purpose. Surrender must be unconditional. A prayer with anything but gratitude, is not a prayer. It is a condition. My surrender was still conditional. My prayer, my gratitude was still conditional.
After my second surrender, I was living with a friend in Mumbai, discussing my experiences, when she told me about a friend of hers, who had some judgements and reservations on my use of social media, now that I was a sanyasin. It was a picture the commune had posted of me in meditation. Regardless, It didn’t bother me, but something was very humbling in that moment, that transformed me in a moment. My inner masculine, is my escape. The doer in me. It is where I run to. Bhagwan didn’t put my inner masculine to ‘work’ post my second surrender but showed me, that I need not be the doer. My friend read out the entire text exchange with her friend to me. My friend had responded to her friend exactly like a sanyasin. She is not a sanyasin! It was humbling. Bhagwan was already doing what needed to be done. As he had done for me through my mother, through my ex and now through me. He don’t need a sanyasin to work through your being. Certainly as a Sanyasin, the process of evolution is faster. But if you’ve ever read him or done even one of his meditations, he has accepted you, he unconditionally loves you, he is silently there with you; even if you’re still seeking. Humbled, is not a word that does justice to the experience of his consciousness.
It started to show me the meaningless of attachment to what we see as matter, success, achievement, goals, etc. the meaninglessness of an achieving mind.
The test of Faith
From the earliest days of my conscious connection with Bhagwan, I had started to see many similar essences in ‘His’ consciousness with the consciousness of my Divine counterpart, the ‘one’ as they say. Regardless of the fact, if you’ve met them or not. My Masculine Divine, ‘Him’, who in many ways I’ve also learnt from, as I had not only experienced in his physical manifestation but also felt at energetic levels. Incidentally, I find their hands to look exactly the same 😐. My masculine divine’s essence, ‘Him’, It is what is essentially transforming me into a manifestation of the ‘Divine Feminine’. Allowing me to experience my own journey of life. Earlier this year I read a book on a discourse by Bhagwan on ‘The Rebel’. I kid you not, it brought alive my divine counterpart. It was him I was reading, yet I know it was Bhagwan. It inspired an entire blog post of mine, called ‘who do you think you are?’
I remember some of you emailing me too. Also I remember Speaking to a few people at the commune after that post about Bhagwan’s idea of the ‘New Man’, his rebel. It is where I connected with Bhagwan initially, I call his new man, ‘The Divine Masculine’. I wonder if my counterpart ever thought I was writing for him. Sure, if he likes reading it or if it does something for him, or it gives him anything at all. In many ways, ‘He is it’ m but on many levels you could say my own inner & outer transformation & evolution are only catalyzed by his being. They are not for him but in gratitude of his being on my own journey of evolution. On my journey of a mystic. Bhagwan keeps showing me again and again. The higher understandings of the path of love.
Last month, was my biggest test to date. The test of faith or surrender, call it anything. Looks like I passed 😊. There is no percentage. ‘Coz life ain’t a competition. I just know if I passed or not. Already in a surrendered state, I happened to be triggered by my counterpart’s expression of himself. In a moment it triggered my own unhealed childhood trauma wounding and I reacted. The reaction lasted only a night and then there was acceptance. Acceptance of my own relationship to the idea of ‘respect’ and authentic expression; within myself, and through my own experiences/conditioning. Because essentially, it had nothing to do with him. He was only expressing himself. And quite creatively, I must say in retrospect. Much like the Bad Boy we all want but can’t have. Much like Lucifer, much like Bhagwan himself.
My Buddha Bro, said something to me after my own understanding the next day, which sealed the result of the test of faith. At that point, we were helping each other just through conversation and also silence. In fact it was my silence day. I could only speak with smiles, nods and tears. Knowing nothing of my test of faith, He reminded me through context of his own journey, ‘we are all beings of the divine. We are all protected. They don’t need us as much as we don’t need them. We all need the Divine within us.’ In that moment I knew, I had passed the test by retracting my doing to look within. I I Know, We are both protected. So I surrendered and accepted, the shadow & the light, within myself first. I focused on healing my own relationship with another layer of wounding or conditioning that had emerged. At this point it’s more fun than anything else to do. ‘Coz it’s really doing nothing. It’s perfect for someone as lazy as me 🤫 No thinking, no doing; just be. I wonder why I ran from meditation for so long! 🤔
A Mystic’s Truth is stranger than Science Fiction
Although, all true spiritual counterpart connections are surrounded by manipulation and other forms of darkness, most recently I was shown how in the transcendence of shadow and light, the dark is also forced to use all it has to dim the light. The light is only there to be and illuminate. The light ain’t dimming, Coz the light’s in control now. It knows it’s power is in being & burning. By the gift of being able to read tarot cards & by being on a journey of mysticism; I’m connected to other divine beings, feminines & masculines. Sometimes they tell others that ‘I’ helped them. I know ‘I’ didn’t Coz ‘I am not’. Being awakened to our divine nature is such a gift that it is in many ways, envied by even those who ‘have it all’. Somehow, they want it without the work. Because they see it as ‘no work’
Through one connection of mine, a divine feminine; another woman, whose name I will not take, heard that I’m a divine feminine. This connection of mine is an awakened divine feminine energy herself from an early age. A friend of hers is fascinated by the ‘idea’ of a divine feminine and ‘divine love’, without wanting to do any ‘work’. I’m told, she has wanted to be just like this divine feminine connection of mine, and has done crazy things to replicate her experiences. This woman, may have found a way to follow me on social media, through this connection of mine. I’ve never met or seen her. I don’t know her. The day I landed home around mid month, I immediately received a text from this connection of mine, informing me that this friend of hers was trying to reach me saying, ‘i’m the only one who can help her.’ My connection didn’t know I had landed home and neither did I tell her. She suggested that this woman is a mental health patient and advised me not to speak with her. Of course I agreed.
The next morning, my friend from the commune in Nepal called me. She said, this woman had somehow managed to find my friends number in Nepal and told her that she knew that I was landing home today. Her exact words were, ‘I can feel her landing today.’ Spooky 😳 she said That she needed to connect with me because ‘only I can help her’. She told my friend things about me and my counterpart, that I’ve never said, written or mentioned anywhere or to anyone. Including to that friend. I can’t really. All of that she said are some of my deepest understandings through my own journey. It’s not out there, anywhere. It is in my feelings, and maybe in my thoughts to myself. She also said that she was blocking my counterpart from getting to me. My friend from the commune says she’d met this woman about 10 years ago and since then, her numbers have changed so many times. She also said, that she’d always believed this woman to be possessed, not a mental health patient.
My connection told me, this woman was diagnosed with split personality disorder. A person who is possessed, will look a lot like a split personality to many. Essentially, we are all sensitive beings. And can be exceptionally perceptive and receptive. Or we can trust in our own inner guidance. A mystic also looks like a crazy personality with his contradictions but always has one face. There’s no split. It is what it is. The face his own journey gives him. Some of us keep our sensitivity, our perceptive and receptive ability more alive than others. Some of us express extroverted and some remain introverted about their unexplainable Mystical adventure rides. And some are in the middle. The light or the dark, good & evil are inside of us. We are possessed by what we are. She was partially possessed or a split personality, call it whatever. Basically, she followed me and started to believe she was me. She wanted to live my journey. Actually she didn’t want anything of me, my journey is of nothingness, she was only craving my light, rather ‘the’ light of a Divine Feminine. A journey of the Divine Feminine ‘Coz she had no idea how much of the dark had consumed her. The unconscious. It was only her desire. I wanted to help but I couldn’t. What could I say. Except that, ‘May your shadows, see the light’.
After the trigger, I had promised myself, that I would no longer watch him. It was also my way of surrendering to Bhagwan further to open me up to whatever was out there for me. Which Btw, I’ve tried before but something was different this time. I was more tired. I experienced freedom in surrender. Bhagwan showed me that an experience of divine love was possible again and that it would happen in Divine Time. I often call myself a tube light. I only saw ‘it’ when it was already too late to take it further. Or maybe that was Bhagwan. There was no place for my doer. Although not late enough to experience moments that are the gifts of surrender. Moments that let you know, it’s already there. ‘I’ must align with it.
But then Bhagwan would continue to show me that Divine Masculine is Love. My entire month’s learning at the commune last month was to trust in my own wisdom. Regardless of the world outside, only my intuition inspired action is to be trusted. And focus on my own inner divine masculine. I faltered a bit but ultimately I made it through. Truly mind vs intuition. Distorted vs divine. Bhagwan’s No-Mind Therapy for the 3rd out of 7 times proved groundbreaking for me. It’s like Bhagwan was playing games. He was saying, ‘know that he is all that you’ll ever want in a companion, yet surrender your wish to know him on the physical plane’. The Love is what matters, not him. I have your gifts of surrender. The ego holds on & Love let’s go.
I learnt a day after I blocked this woman on social media, that she had finally agreed to be hospitalized. But then that day, I had this urge to check if this woman, who I had just blocked, was following my counterpart too. And indeed she was. I let it be because I knew by now, I need not be the doer. We are both protected. If I am, he is. What I saw in watching him though, humbled me more. 😊 made me happy too 😁
What I saw is that ‘ordinary is indeed extraordinary.’ On a mystics journey, the surrender of the inner masculine, births the mystic, the journey of the inner feminine, sure; and it also sees the Divine Masculine! A mystic’s truth is stranger than Science Fiction, yet it’s a boring science fiction because there is no search. It is already there. It is ordinary yet magical. Magical not in a way that can be expressed but can be felt, until feeling is transcended. A good science fiction isn’t a mystic’s journey. That is drama, maybe adventure. Mystical truths only inspire science fiction.
He is all that I’ve known ‘Him’ to be,
I’ve seen, Inside me, & outside me.
Know, that the flower will blossom,
Whatever will be, will be awesome.
The Meaningless words of a Mystic
All that I write, I channel through the divine feminine. It is only a prayer to express my gratitude for the Divine masculine manifested. This one is A prayer of gratitude ahead of the Gemini New Moon. The moon of the twins. The duality, the Yin & the Yang, the masculine & the feminine. That is why I don’t call myself a writer. Only a student, a friend. And an actor 😁
We’re all actors. A mystic’s part is in loosing the plot, edging closer and closer to the edge, to naturally fall into the ocean, without any effort. The moment of total surrender. In that surrender is the experience, the effort is futile in that moment. But the effort is meaningful before that moment. It is the effort that gets my ego to becoming tired enough to surrender. A mystic’s truth is surrender. It is effortless effort. And that is stranger than science fiction.
Regardless of what we do, tell stories, or work a 9-5 job at an office; a mystic’s journey is knowing that everything happens in the moment when everything is aligned for it. The stars, the Sun, the moon, the skies & also the trees, the flowers, the music, the words, and the consciousness. And the lifetime. The thing is everything is already aligned, the mystic knows, it is all in the journey. He will be shown only that which he needs to see to play his part. Essentially, he must align with that which he wishes to experience. On Divine Time as they say! A Divine Mystical Master, in any form, a lover, beloved, guru or friend; helps him to enjoy the journey.
The last few weeks for me, have been nothing short of a ride down childhood memory lane. Possibly to finally surrender an old story and rebirth something new in the same space. Because so much is different. Not changed, I won’t say that. It’s all just new behind the same faces. As a new born, I’m told I was born just the way I am today. Long nails and long hair 😂. As a baby, I’m told I’d be lost in my own world for hours at a stretch. I could be in one position for hours, without a squeak, unlike other babies. Maybe I was meditating.
Now as a child of 5 years or so, I remember, standing in front of the mirror for hours and acting like everyone of authority I knew. My mother to start with, acting like she’s in office. Acting like she’s at home. Then my teachers, and of course all the Bollywood actresses. All these imaginary stories that I’d play out with my twin cousin 😁. He was just a couple months older to me, I look back now and feel grateful for him. He always agreed to play the secondary part in my story. We’re all the main character in our stories, aren’t we? But he agreed to be ordinary, and that was extraordinary. Interestingly, I’m to meet him next month as my travels continue, as so will this story. The Poser & the Watcher!
The thing is we’re all actors. In this play called life, we’re all actors, who see life, a play, from our character’s perspective. A child who knows at the age of 5 that ‘I’ love to act, to pose, to entertain, to pretend; is really just being honest and truthful to his nature. He is really enjoying life. When all the children around me were already wanting to ‘become’ the doctors & engineers in the stories; I was already an actor in the story.
Life’s a play
You’d think that after knowing all my life, that I’d want to ‘become’ an actor, and preparing for it; it’d be an easy ride. It wasn’t and it wasn’t meant to be. Even as a child, I remember being a sort of risk taker. I’d take risks on whatever I’d wanna experience. Not necessarily on everything my friends were experiencing. But I think what kept me detached from fear doubt guilt, shame etc of my choices, was this ability to take complete responsibility for my actions. Essentially, my acting. I never seemed to need anything or anyone outside of me to justify my experience. Good or bad, it’s just an experience. I was acting essentially. Action is acting. The doing. The doer. It’s who I grabbed from my immediate outer reality, I thought I was. With time I remembered that I couldn’t become an actor, ‘Coz I already am an actor, a poser.
Now, since the big Bollywood dream went to shit. I gotta be doing something with my life. Those around me always believed in me a lot more than I believed in myself. I believed in them. 😊. I started playing around with producing some little content here and there, which I didn’t like or even enjoy. Initially, the smallest hiccups, and I’d be in tears. I really have my ex to thank on this one. One fine day, during a breakdown I was experiencing, he asked me, ‘what do you want?’. Naturally, I said, ‘I don’t want to do this. I want to act.’ And he said something that, I’m not sure even he realizes, changed my life. He said, ‘then act. Act like a producer.’ And I really do see upon reflection, that I acted my way to it. Yes I learnt my way to it too but really I was just acting. The learning happened on its own for me to play my part. Life really is a play. And the ego, is the poser. It will be given only what it needs for the part.
Must Watch
Now the ego, the poser will always have its own story in mind. Even if the story meant to be told through me is bigger, more interesting than the one my poser wants to say; ‘I’ am stuck on my story. And to make it happen ‘I’ will fight to protect the ‘narrative’. This is all the outer reality though. In my outer world I know, ‘I’ am an actor. But an actor with no watcher, viewer, observer, admirer, critic; is useless no? That is what the outward Focused mind perceives. It is always looking for a watcher outside. It has denied, negated a whole side of reality. The inner reality. There is a watcher, a viewer, an observer in the inner reality. Watching everything but not admiring or critiquing. That part is left to the ego, the false, the mask, the face, the actor, the poser.
The watcher only watches. Without judgement, without attachment, it watches everything, everyone. At first, it watches with the poser, as the poser. All there is to watch, on the outside. That same watcher can watch the poser in me too. So called ‘Love’ had happened to me before but then ‘True Love’ happened only once so far. It first awakened the watcher in me. I hadn’t seen it but I knew something was watching and that this was different, ‘Coz the experience was otherworldly. I was seeing something in him. Something of the beyond, something of the divine. It wasn’t even him but this divine that I was seeing. Once you see someone as divine, there’s no way to Un-see it. You’ve seen their highest potential.
This I realized very recently. I felt and saw so much darkness around him, but that divine light was still there. Burning bright. What I see in him is potential. The potential that may or may not be realized in this life time. Potential that is in everyone. For reasons best known to existence, I was to see it in him. It was meant to be that way. I was so intrigued. So I watched. And as I watched, I started to realize in me, the potential I was seeing in him. Essentially, I was seeing his watcher. My watcher was seeing his watcher. The watcher later started watching me. And from that came the introspection, the reflection. The poser started to transform to that which was watching it. Not the object of my love. Not him. His light. The divine. That watcher, the mystic, the observer; is ‘it’. The poser started to become the watcher.
Must enjoy all the way
The moment the poser, the ego, what I thought of as the ‘I’, saw the watcher; the game really changed for me. There was no way to un-see what I had already seen. The actor had found its truest fan. One who will unconditionally watch, without judgement. I found what I was seeing in my beloved. I found my own ‘calm in the chaos’. Over the past six months of vipassna, I’ve learnt that it is essentially about watching. It is ‘the’ method of meditation, as they say. I’ve experienced that there is a very different kind of detachment that arises by just, watching. One where you’re constantly observing, watching yourself, without being attached to any part of it. You are there, free to love, free to want, free to desire; but you are free from it all. You are just enjoying a character. It is a great play of life unfolding before me.
Then life doesn’t really remain about achievement. It can’t, Because it is all just a play. Then all that matters is experience. The one who watches life as he watches a play, an act; cannot live but in the experience of it. The rest doesn’t matter. And somehow gets taken care of. The thing is the poser too awakens someday to the fact that’s been hidden in plain sight. All achieving minds are running towards a seat that many are running towards. Only one will get to sit on it. Achievement is for the exceptions. The ones who will be used as examples to pull the rest into the race. To promote the idea that ‘we can be an exception too.’ An experience, on the contrary, is free for all.
What is sanyas really? Many ask me. It is another act of the poser. A maroon robe, a mala around the neck, dancing to the tunes of the divine. What is it? It is an act. Another face. One that says I celebrate the experience of life. I’m not here to achieve anything. One that wants to be the watcher. The poser is the ego. The ego wants to achieve all that it wants. Now it’s bound to want to master the watcher, the being, the non-achiever!
But it can’t, because the watcher doesn’t fight. It can only be understood. It just watches and leaves the poser to do what it wants. Vipassna says, whatever you watch, becomes conscious and doesn’t function at its potential. There is no need to fight it. Once the poser meets the watcher, it can’t perform as it used to. Then slowly but surely it becomes aware of the act. It becomes the watcher because it too is aware of the watching of the watcher at all times. But it is not the watcher. It is only playing the watcher. It is being a non-doer. And in it’s non-doing, it is experiencing the play called life. Then even death is a part of that play.
The show must go on, ‘it will’, ‘I’ say
Krishna, the greatest poser of all times; had such an insignificant death that hardly anyone knows about it. I do, but only because I’m a geek for spiritual studies. But it’s not important here. What is important only is why his death is so insignificant. Because death is insignificant in itself. Krishna is a symbol of life. And by his way, winning is insignificant too. Life is an experience not a competition. When Krishna says to Arjuna on the battlefield of Mahabharata, ‘you cannot kill anyone. It is your illusion. You cannot win, you cannot loose. You are just playing a part. So pick up your weapon and accept your destiny’; he is speaking the truth. Death is the biggest illusion. Death of the body is no death. It is the death of the soul, & the consciousness that kills us really.
This play, called life don’t end with death. We say, ‘let us bide our time’, till the next opportunity. But really that time is wasted. Nothing ends with death, nothing births with life. it is a continuum. It is already there. essentially, ’I’ must align vibrationally with ’it’ …
what you seek, is seeking you.
Rumi
We get a relief with death, on the contrary. A sort of sleep before the next day. Depending on how evolved a consciousness is, The soul is incarnated again within 13 days to 300 years later. Then we are playing a different character, in the same play. The achievements of the dead character won’t even matter but the soul touching experiences of the dead character will certainly play their part. Again & again. A different ‘I’ will experience the mysteries of life and look for logic in it. A different journey but the play is the same.
The poser never stops. It is like time. We move from mask to mask. The show continues. And the watcher watches life time after lifetime. The poser is temporary, the watcher is eternal.
We’re all posers, in the same play
Once the watcher is discovered, the poser can never be the same again. It has seen its temporary nature. It knows now that it is just a poser like everyone else. In this play called life, he is not in control, unlike the poser believed before meeting the watcher. But the ego doesn’t give up, my friend. Surrender happens despite the ego, and without denying it. Some choose to pose with a mask. Some prefer a thinner mask. But a poser must be masked. who is masked though? The watcher is masked. The closer the poser is to the watcher, the closer he is to his authenticity. A thin mask maybe, but a mask none the less. the watcher needs a a mask. the watcher is the ’being’ not the doing. The watcher is feminine energy. It’s truest expression is meditation. she can be expressed through the soul but again the soul doesn’t really have a language. She cannot birth without the mask, The doer, the masculine. The Poser is ’He’, the Watcher is ’She’.
So in all honesty, a truly authentic person cannot be consistent really. The dualities of life will show through in his being. One day he will be ‘this’ & another day he will be ‘that’. And both will be true. Not subjectively. Together both will be the complete truth. When one is inconsistent, he is also considered unreliable. But he is reliable to the self. He is consistent to the self. Aligning his act, his actions, his pose; with the situation presented by life.
A truest authentic ‘individual’ cannot make a promise for the future. He knows the future doesn’t exist and that he is a poser as well as a watcher. An authentic individual will be truest to his truest watcher. He will adapt to the situation and will choose the mask the story demands, not the poser. Authenticity follows the writer. He knows the back story that ain’t in the story. He will truly be Krishna himself. Unpredictable, undeniable, unacceptable, unapologetic. Living just in the moment. Dying with every dying moment. In the language of the world, a recluse. Recluse or not, he is free.
We’re all posers in the same play, life time after lifetime. We have a great gift in life to ascend to the role of the watcher. The watcher is neither ‘I’ nor ‘you’. It is ‘it’. The main role. The main character. The only character. The greatest experience & the greatest achievement. And what holds us back? The million stories we tell ourselves of why we aren’t free to be free. When the poser becomes the watcher; the watcher becomes the watched. Then there is only one face. The real character. That is freedom, that is love; because from that point on, no excuse or conditioning seems to justify inauthenticity. Then we’ve broken through that which holds us back from our greatest story, our best act, the utmost experience, the highest achievement.
Bhagwan says, ‘acting is the most spiritual profession.’ There is great depth to this statement. The poser is spiritual, when the watcher watches the play. Then don’t matter what the plot is. whatever it is, it is being watched, it is being healed. healed from the ’Human Condition’.
If you’re a poser,
Life’s a play,
Must ‘watch’✨
Must enjoy all the way!
The show must go on,
‘It Will’ ‘I’ say.
We’re all posers
In the same play!
~MaPJ~
Celebration is an expression. Much like creativity is an expression of the inner being; celebration is an expression of gratitude. Gratitude for all that life has to offer, the good & the bad, the happy and the sad. Life, much like healing, is not linear. It ain’t a straight line. Life is an experience in waves. The higher I want to reach, the lower I must be willing to fall. Celebration is being grateful for the highs and the lows. Celebrating just the joys of life, is like trying to create the peaks without the valleys. Where there are peaks, there have to be valleys. Together they make a beautiful scenery.
Celebration is an outward expression of the inner spirit. The spirit is a ‘being’, not a doing. So the spirit cannot celebrate. Only the ‘person’, the ‘I’, the ego can. But what is the ‘person’ celebrating? It is celebrating the spirit’s manifestation of life, in all its forms, with all its waves. I cannot describe the spirit. Can you? Many say the spirit is the vibe of a being but that ain’t true. The spirit is just another name for the soul. The soul is really existence expressing through the manifested being. So it is the vibe of existence, of being.
Existence is everywhere, within everything. In other words, existence is the soul, the spirit. The spirit which manifests not just in us as humans but also in animals and trees and the ocean and the skies. In everything really. When trees sway to the tunes of the winds, they are celebrating together. When the tides of the ocean rise with the pull of the moon, they are celebrating together. Spirit is manifested everywhere and it celebrates everything. The storms and the calms.
What is Spirituality?
What is spirituality?
Spirituality is an adventure into the inner world of the spirit, the soul. It is a way of life, a lifestyle, that allows to live authentically through the soul. Spirituality is really a study, a practice, to understand the purpose, the meaning of life; which is life itself. If celebration is an expression of the spirit, then spirituality holds immense meaning & importance in the life of a being.
More than ever now, we see people on journeys of self-discovery. I’m not sure what exactly they’re looking to discover. There is nothing to discover. Whatever it is that we are looking for, is already there. Yet to find it, seek we must! We keep seeking for our ‘truth’, our authenticity outside. We are willing to walk miles; only to discover more new faces of ‘I’, our ego. The truth, the authenticity is not ‘out there’, but ‘in here’. We just need to remember and a step in the opposite direction does it. A step inward. Just a step and we’ve found it, our authenticity, our truth.
Truth doesn’t deny outward reality. The outward reality is real but it’s a manifestation of the internal reality. Outside is only one side of the coin. The other side is inside. Spirituality is a journey of accepting and transcending dualities inside. But trust me when I tell ya, they want us stuck in the dualities outside. They’ll do anything to keep us focused on the outside. To be able to look inside, we must quieten the mind chatter, that clouds it. This is only possible with inner silence, with meditation. But they’ve created so many distractions to keep us from silence, the diamond in the Lotus. I tell you, ‘spirituality without meditation, without silence is no spirituality. Celebration without spirituality is no celebration’. So, celebration without meditation is no celebration at all.
History of spirituality
Spirituality essentially, is as old as the spirit itself but it came into more prominence as a religious practice from the advent of society. It’s original concept can be found in all organized religion. The idea of a god separate from & outside of the self. Initially, this God was feared. The original God was scary really. He was tough, non-compassionate, judgemental. ‘God fearing’ attitude is what organized religion instilled in people to control them. Unfortunately, religion still subconsciously conditions all humans to be fearful, even if we aren’t religious.
Then came a revolution called Jesus. He said, ‘God is Love’. He made God soft, compassionate, forgiving, non-judgemental. It changed the whole dynamic between man and God. The very relationship began to undergo a transformation. The attitude began to change from ‘God fearing’ to ‘God Loving’. But this was too threatening for the ones who had controlled people for centuries, on the idea of fearing God. Unfortunately, Jesus was crucified and Christianity was born under the burden of a cross. The largest population of the world is buried under the cross.
The world has always been controlled by 1% of the population that holds 95% of the world’s abundance, in all its forms. This leaves the remaining 99% of us, struggling in the dark, to sustain & survive. We are constantly in a fight with their own energies, living in an illusion of a happy future dependant on factors outside of ourselves. This is exactly how people are controlled like mindless animals.
These 1% also control the narratives of all organized religion. Man doesn’t find solace in the world or in religion. So the 60s & 70s saw a significant growth in drug culture, giving birth to the Hippie culture. In many ways, It’s still prevalent, as communities expressed in communities, essentially as a search for freedom together.
Freedom is always crucified
With more and more people, mostly in the west, searching for freedom in drugs & parties of togetherness, not only were the 1% now controlling the people but also supplying them with another illusion of freedom – drugs & a periphery vision of spirituality. Hippies, still moved in groups and looked for peace, joy, love & freedom outside of the self. That is when the western world was introduced to the mystics and gurus of the east. Most of these mystics & gurus were enlightened beings, healing others to find true freedom from the controlled herd, and from societal conditionings through meditation.
The east had always known them but the west now needed them. These mystics and gurus were making people fearless individuals, helping them find the real God. Not outside but inside of the self. They were helping these lost souls to find themselves. They were holding hands and taking them in the opposite direction, a step inward. Mystics revealed, for the first time to the western world, that freedom is in individuality and not in a herd. They were turning people’s pain into power. Amongst the most popular names of such mystics and gurus are, Srila Prabhupada, founder of the ISKCON movement & of course the most dangerous man since Jesus, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, founder of the Osho movement.
These were the Jesus of the new age and became very threatening for the 1%, the Vatican, the structures of the world. Almost all spiritual mystics, gurus and leaders have ‘mysteriously left their bodies’. Actually they’ve all been murdered, sadly by their own disciples. These particular disciples, when looked at closely, will always be the infiltrators, not the meditators. ‘They’ don’t want you to be free so they let you have an illusion of it. Freedom is always crucified, be it in the form of Jesus, Srila Prabhupada or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Science of spirituality
Spirituality is really the scientific & artistic study of the spirit in relation to the body. To me art and science are the duality of life. The design and the expression. Creativity in one word. But We are conscious to only one body, the physical body. Beyond the physical is the emotional body & beyond that the etheric body and so on, up to 7 layers. The etheric body holds our energy circles, which correspond to spots on the physical body. We call these, chakras. There is also a main energy centre of all chakras, which pulls in energy from everywhere and distributes it to the rest of the etheric body. Much like the heart pumping blood to the rest of the body.
During the Golden ages, this energy centre was located in its rightful place, 2 inches below the navel. The Japanese call this spot, ‘Hara’. When the energy centre is at the Hara, we feel grounded, balanced & strong on the inside, which manifests outwardly as a grounded, balanced & solid life. The individual cannot be uprooted by anything outside of him.
During the Middle Ages, this energy centre moved upward to the heart chakra. Then even war was fought with love. It was all about love. When the energy centre is at the heart, we feel loving & compassionate on the inside, which manifests outwardly as a loving & compassionate life. A life of sharing. We are closest to our soul. Our true nature.
Currently in the Dark ages, this energy centre has further moved upwards to the mind. This is the danger. The mind pulling energy from everywhere without us even having to do anything. When the energy centre is at the mind, our life is chaotic, confusing, just an illusion because mind is the illusions, the ego, the false. A borrowed idea. This is what the 1% wanted from the start. Feed the illusion, control man.
Only meditation pushes the energy centre down to the Hara. Takes us from Mind to No-mind. Once we are there, it is forever bliss!
Surrender ain’t stupid, the ego is
The ego cannot accept anything or anyone higher than itself. It holds the crown at the top and never wants to fall. What is the ego really? It is an identity, a personality, a false face, an illusion created by all of the conditioning we have been subject to since childhood. Parents, family, friends, communities, religion, governments, society etc etc. in simple words it is a borrowed idea of the self. This ‘idea’ of the self is so strong that even the slightest trigger to it, makes us defensive, ready to fight for it. For its survival. We become conscious of everything around us but ourselves. we don’t watch ourselves.
We keep fighting our own energies, our true nature, our inner being; only to feed an ‘idea’. We keep suppressing our, wants, needs to feed the desires arising from conditioning. Naturally, we are in a major conflict with ourselves. Now that’s stupid, very stupid! Suppression is suicide. The ego is not loving, even to the self. It not pro self. It is only pro ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is to surrender. The ego cannot even surrender to a higher consciousness who has broken through his own ego, let alone surrendering to God.
Surrendering is the art of giving a part or all of ourselves to a higher force to show us the way for our highest good and the highest good of all, even if that’s against the ego. Surrender is not giving up. It is the secret behind manifestation, behind co-creating our life with the divine. But the ego sees surrender as giving up. The ego believes it knows best because it is the highest. Even if ego wants freedom, it must find it on its own. It must ‘achieve’. It cannot ask for help. The ego cannot ‘look’ helpless even if the being needs healing.
The ego is only outward focused. It can only experience with the 5 senses. The sixth sense belongs to the soul, the spirit and therefore can only be accessed through spirituality. True spirituality, I must say. It is ‘Third eye’. So the ones who control, will give you a million different illusions of freedom, of spirituality, of success, of abundance; to keep your sixth sense asleep. They will feed your ego, the false but never the real, the true.
Better is not New
The world is controlled and influenced by the west. Rather I should say America. And the American way is all about making everything better. Better roads, better homes, better systems, better health, better education, better opportunities; even the better man. The American way is not about the new. It cannot birth ‘The New man’. The new requires the death of the old. The better requires building on the old. And the old is built on a faulty foundation of conditionings. So the better is always ‘bettering’ the faulty. The new requires a demolition of the entire foundation but that will break the illusion no? So they must better the illusion to suit the evolving human consciousness. Communities certainly support in that way. Celebration is one side of the coin, silent meditation is the other.
Let’s take this into the context of spirituality. The freedom seeking ones, wanting to ‘find’ themselves; over the years have created communities that move together & celebrate together. Back in the day, they called themselves Hippies and now there are many names. A community of people that meet to celebrate ‘Love & light & life & music & all the good things that sound lovely’. It’s really just a party of Hippies, maybe without the Booze and/or the drugs. But it is celebration. Which is essential.
They call them spiritual and the world let’s them be. Why? Because they are not a threat. True spirituality is always a threat. If they were spiritual, they’d be done. My commune in Nepal is under constant threats of shut down by the osho international foundation itself; which Swamiji has been fighting for over 30 years. The only reason it’s still alive, is because it’s situated in a spiritually advanced country like Nepal.
Most of the other communities may find temporary joy in celebration outside of the self. The state of bliss, of being unaffected by peak or valley; but it doesn’t last. That is potential, unrealized.
Be unique, be irresistible – be an individual
From my heart, I really sympathize with them. They are so lost 😢. Their egos are too big to surrender. Not them. They are trying to find a way. We all are. Some have just always been more awake to it. But they have no one to show them the way. Someone without an ego. The ego must arrive itself! And all they arrive at is another face of the false ‘I’. Spirituality kills the ‘I’ and births the ‘I am not’. These methods are just a temporary relief & worse, another way to suppress that which must be faced. I repeat, suppression is suicide. Freewill is not freedom. Freewill is the freedom to choose. Freedom to choose is not freedom. It is an illusion of freedom. True freedom is the freedom to be choice less.
True spiritual beings are truly unique. They stand out of the crowd. They’ve found their individuality by walking an inward path alone. They remember, they came alone, they’ll go alone. They are grateful for companionship, for a friend, for company, for a community; but they are more grateful for aloneness. Not lonely, just alone. They cherish their aloneness. celebrate their aloneness. They exude a different kind of energy. One that is totally unapologetic & charismatic; which makes them irresistible to most unawakened and many awakened too. This is a gift, to awaken others by awakening the self. It’s almost impossible to find others like true spiritual beings.
Spirituality is an individual path with Individual experiences, which are then celebrated together within a communion, not community. Celebration, it is always a celebration of individuals, celebrating their own unique path, with immense gratitude for all that life has to offer. They celebrate the peaks and the valleys with equal enthusiasm, with the same kind of gratitude. In fact you’ll find them more grateful for the lows than the highs. Do you know why? Because they see from higher consciousness, which they’ve arrived at through meditation. They see the 5D plan & the 3D play.
Spirituality without meditation is no spirituality. Celebration without spirituality is no celebration. So, celebration without meditation is no celebration at all! Are you spiritual? What exactly are you celebrating?
Original vs 1st copy
Knowledge without experience,
Is no knowledge at all.
Creation without vision,
Is no creation at all.
Prayer without gratitude,
Is no prayer at all.
Seeking without devotion,
Is no seeking at all.
Surrender without Faith,
Is no surrender at all.
Connection without synchronicity,
Is no connection at all.
Friendship without purity,
Is no friendship at all.
Self love without selflessness,
Is no self love at all.
Love without intensity,
Is no Love at all.
Celebration without meditation,
Is no celebration at all.
Transformation without spirituality.
Is no transformation at all.
Evolution without the ego death,
Is no evolution at all.
Meditation without silent practice,
Is no meditation at all.
And ….
A Life without knowledge & creation,
prayer, seeking, surrender & connection,
Friendship, self love, Love & celebration,
Transformation, evolution & meditation;
Is no life at all.
It is not original, meant for eternity; it is only a 1st Copy, not meant to last.
Original vs 1st copy – Inspiration
This poem, came as a channeling to me, about a month ago, back at the commune. It was after an hour of Vipasna, at Bhagwan’s samadhi. I read it then and I didn’t fully understand it myself. So I put it away. This morning, I woke up with a clear idea of this post sharing. I knew it was inspiration. So on the first flight I started writing it. I was up early to catch a flight home. And had to meditate an hour before leaving. At the end of the first flight, a damage on one of my suitcases, by the airline, inspired the purpose of this post. It’s meaning.
Then on the second flight of over 4 hours, I wrote the rest of this post, except this chapter. Which is specifically inspired by what I had learnt of the ego, through my own response to the suitcase situation. When the ego ‘sees’ and it knows that it is the original, it will protect it more. So the ego can surrender but only to the original, the true, the authentic. But ego must see to know and … who will show it. We are all the ego. Only one who has the real, can show the real.
Community is 1st copy, communion is original.
In a community there is celebration, in a commune celebration is also a meditation. In a community there is Freewill, in a commune there is a freedom. and a master to prune the ego for freedom 🙄. In a community, it is about ‘us’, in a commune, it about the ‘I’. Actually, not ‘I’, it’s about my ‘eye’, not the ‘I’. A community is together, a commune is together in aloneness. A community seeks together. A commune is ‘being’ together. A community without a master, is built to be temporary. A commune with a master, is the way to eternity.
The one who has experienced the original, don’t really care about the 1st copy. But the original is very expensive. You gotta pay for it with yourself, your whole ‘I’ and be nothing. Only a few can afford it. The 1% are amongst them. They don’t control for themselves. The 1% too have surrendered their ‘I’ to the ‘eye’. They too control for the one they see as ‘God’. Whatever the face, whoever your God, your true God, is who you are. Because you are ‘it’ – you ‘God’. Regardless of what the original looks like, it is original. It is the ‘eye’. Shiva’s third eye.
A community is a 1st copy of the original celebration of life, so they let us have it. A commune is the original celebration of Life, so it threatens them. And with this chapter, which I wrote after my evening meditation, connected the poem which I had written a month ago, at the commune. Now I understand it fully.
Back in the early days of my Sanyas, I had asked my master a question, ’how can a commune ensure that there wont be infiltrators and only meditators. I ’see’ ‘He’ has answered it today. It seems we can’t but under a master, they may also be transformed. A commune is not a community of people with the same interest or love for the same. A commune is a communion of very different people, with no similarities, common ground, no point of merging; being alone together, for the common Love of the Divine. I understand the purpose of this post on the Lunar eclipse – ‘the original life is the most expensive, one must loose it all, to have it all. that is why very few live it. very few can afford it.’
I understand, an Original Life of authentic celebration is dangerous to say the least, it is a complete jump into the unknown, because it is rare. It is about dropping the entire past. It is not for the faint of heart. Never getting too comfortable in one place. Living on the edge of life, ready to celebrate whatever it brings! Ready to fall, ready to rise. ready to live!
Are we living it? What exactly are we celebrating?
Meditation is an adventure into the unknown. It is the greatest adventure the Human mind can take. Meditation is not a doing, but a being. It is a non-doing. Any activity can be a meditation, but only for a meditative mind. The meditative mind is really a no-mind. There are 112 different methods of meditations. They differ in constitution but the fundamentals remain the same
There are three basic fundamentals of meditation; relaxation, watching & non- judgement. For meditation to happen, there should be no fight with the mind or the thoughts. Just watching without judgement and being relaxed is the key. Then slowly, with time & practice, a silence descends within the self. Then you are but the ‘I am’ starts to disappear. Meditation has started to happen. Then you are what you will always be, within the body or outside of it; a pure consciousness. A pure space.
What is NOT meditation?
In the west, and now being imitated by the east too, we love to create machines, devices etc. Anything that can ‘do’ better than humans can. Anything that can give us an experience without the effort. So yes, we have from hypnosis machines to sleep inducing machines, to created environments, we are told are meditative in nature.
All of these alternative approaches are not bad but only as a first step. They induce a certain silence within the mind and can induce a sort of sleep in the mind. They provide the first step to meditation, which is relaxation. These are immensely helpful methods to get into a relaxed state. A joy then rises within the self but is not one that lasts. These are temporary methods because these are experiences only, not meditation. Meditation allows for relaxation to last even in the face of stress, pain, fear, suffering. It doesn’t depend on anything outside of the self to remain in a state of bliss.
Bliss is not a state of constant joy but a state of being unaffected, regardless of joy or sorrow, happiness or sadness. It is a state of inner silence and acceptance of everything as it is. Bliss is a state of consciousness which can be achieved by a ‘yes’ sayer to life. In fact life belongs to the ‘yes’ sayers. ‘Nay sayers’ are, in all honesty, dead.
A feeling of temporary silence can be created by machines, temporary waves of calm can be created by music, a temporary environment of joy can be created by people. Relaxation for a period of time, can be achieved by alternate methods, but mediation cannot happen. The most important quality of meditation is watchfulness.
The watcher cannot be created. The watcher can only be located, found, discovered by you; within you. This watcher is the flame that never burns out. It is the inner being that is aware and watching even when you’re in deepest sleep. Nothing outside of you can discover that flame, that watcher. And the quality of watchfulness is a continuous quality of a meditative mind. Or rather I should say ‘a meditative no-mind’
Twin Flames & other Spiritual connections
Twin flames (or you can alternatively call them, spiritual connections) share such a strong connection of an unexplainable, deep, profound Love; which can only be described as magnetic. The reason being that, they are the true polarity of energies. They magnetically attract and repell each other at the same time. They awaken each other to the watcher within themselves. Usually without prior meditation and so it is chaotic. The watcher watches everything, including the ego self.
The level of awareness that takes over is uncontrollable and the desire to know what is happening within self is what takes counterparts in these connections on a spiritual journey, a spiritual quest. They are here precisely to awaken the other to a journey to the self. The inner self. The flame of awareness, the flame of watchfulness, the inner being is suddenly awakened. That is why these extremely rare connections are called ‘twin flames’.
Masculine & Feminine polarity
The moment we accept the truth that everything is energy, our life begins to transform. All energy; I repeat, ALL energy moves in polarity. The positive & the negative. The masculine & the feminine. Within us and manifested outside of us as well. The masculine polarity of energy is the mind, logic based; it moves in a linear fashion. By that I mean, It moves in a straight line. It denies the opposite and only chooses one. It creates separation of a complete whole.
The feminine polarity of energy is the life force, it is beyond logical explanations. It moves in a dialectical fashion. By that I mean, it moves in a zig zag way. It moves with the opposite. From positive to negative & negative to positive. It accepts both. It creates integration of the opposites that make up the complete whole.
This difference in movement of energy polarity is the crux of much of the problems in our inner worlds, reflected in our outer lives and the world at large. The idea is to understand this first and then balance these polarities.
Balancing the polarities
The answers to balance the masculine & feminine polarities, can be found in the Japanese Zazen teachings & techniques. Zazen talks about things like ‘The pathless path’ & the ‘Gate-less Gate’. In other words it teaches ‘effortless effort’. Doing anything we do with totality and intensity, but without being attached to the outcome. Then we are doing without being the ‘doer’. The doing is happening but the ‘I’ is missing. What else is that if not meditation? Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s Dynamic meditation and other active meditations have been the centre of many debates in the world of meditators but essentially are based on this understanding of ‘effortless effort’. Just like Zazen, they inspire the dialectical way of life. The integrative way. They teach how to be choice less.
The Bhagwad Gita also teaches this same thing. When Krishna says, ‘karm kar, phal ki ichhha mat kar, e insaan!’ He is saying, do the deed but be not the ‘Doer’. Don’t be attached to the outcome. Leave that to existence. In simple words, ‘let it happen through your being’, let it happen through where your life force, your inner feminine energy is taking you. Don’t be the logical mind & constantly push against the tide. The masculine needs to do, but it need not be the doer. Include that which has been denied. The inner parts of you and the outer parts of you. It is in these Zazen & Bhagwad Gita teachings that the answers to balancing twin flame & inner polarity of energies can be found.
Don’t miss the point
Due to the polarity and for other reasons mentioned above, Twin flames & other spiritual connections experience much turmoil in their inner worlds, which naturally starts to reflect in the outer reality as well. These experiences are not easy at all but these transformational experiences are here to show the counterparts something very profound, very important, most meaningful. They are here to reveal that ‘you are not your experiences’.
For example, a spiritual connection with another soul, has awakened you to your light or your shadow or both. Whether your twin flame journey has shown you the beauty of good within yourself, or has scared the shit outta you, revealing to you the evil within yourself. Or it has shown you both good & evil within yourself; it is also showing you something else. This something else is what many twin flames keep missing lifetime after lifetime.
The experience is beautiful, good or evil, it must be enjoyed, it must be experienced. But what you’re failing to see is that you are not your experiences. There is something watching, observing, witnessing these experiences, internally and externally. This something is different from the experience and the experiencer. The one who is watching these experiences, that is the true you. You are the watcher. When the experiencer becomes the experienced, when the watcher becomes the watched, then a third is born. That is the divine.
Twin flame and other deep spiritual counterpart connections, are not here just to experience a spiritual journey. It is not really about the object of your affection, compassion and love. It is here to un-earth the divine within yourself. And at the risk of being judged, I’ll say it, these connections are here to show you – YOU ARE GOD!
Meditation – the only solution
Without meditation, these twin flame & other spiritual connections can become a nightmare forever. Because the mind keeps creating the separation. And in truth, separation is an illusion. Meditation provides the basis on which an understanding of these connections can happen. And understanding is freedom. Freedom from the self most importantly. Freedom from the mind. Essentially when there is a state of no-mind, the inner divine speaks, we call it intuition more commonly. Then it is there, the truth; free from the illusions of the mind. Then despite the pain of separation that the mind creates, there is peace. That is why twin flames are always advised to ‘do the work’. The ‘work’ is meditation.
With meditation these connections can become an experience from the beyond. It don’t matter then, if you’re with or without the person you love. Then you are Love. Because in essence you are together, on a journey, eternally. ‘You are not your experiences’, it took me almost 5 years on my spiritual journey to awaken to this. I’ve enjoyed the happy and the sad in my spiritual connection with my divine counterpart, but this realization has given me a freedom of another kind. One that allows me to remain in bliss, and be more open to whatever life has to offer; no matter what the outer reality looks like with my counterpart.
Meditation is playful, non-serious & with no results
As I mentioned earlier in this post, any activity can be meditation for a meditative mind. As long as it is not serious and you’re playful with it. It needs to be enjoyed. Meditation is not a doing. It is a being, a non-doing. It is not serious. Because it looks serious, it has confused many. But I have found so much joy and love in just ‘being’ because it is my natural state. All our natural state.
The Qualities of mediation are playfulness, joy, fun, celebration. A meditator sees life as a play, a ‘Leela’, precisely because he has found all of these qualities within himself. He cannot be serious. A meditator can be devoted, determined, committed but not serious. He will always be playful. The one who plays in joy and also plays in sorrow.
Meditation, It needs patience. Patiently waiting because hurry causes delays more often than not. The deeper the waiting, the sooner it happens. But not a waiting in sadness, a waiting in Bliss. True love creates this kind of waiting, this ability to eternally wait in bliss. Essentially we are all waiting for the unknown, but in this aspect, I consider twin flames & spiritual connections blessed. The counterparts already have a kind of Love that is needed for soul evolution.
That is why Bhagwan says, if you are in Love (true love I mean), you can patiently wait, even for lifetimes. That waiting itself has become your meditation. Then there is no need to meditate. Love is all we need, to wait & to meditate.
True meditators don’t look for results. Mediation is not an achievement. Meditation happens to those who are not goal oriented. Goal orientation, result orientation is of the mind. And meditation has nothing to do with the mind. It is of the being. The mind doesn’t value anything or anyone that comes easily and meditation is easy. One who is not in touch with his inner being and operates from the mind will never value you, especially if you come easily to them.
That is why so many relationship advisors talk about ‘playing hard to get’. I’ve personally never identified with that phrase. How exactly does one ‘play’ hard to get? 🤔 I go by what I feel as opposed to what I think. How to bring the mind into matters of the heart? I guess, The mind always wants a challenge. It needs to conquer, it needs to achieve. It needs to fight. But meditation is not a fight. It can only be conquered by total surrender, not a fight.
Conclusion
We are all conditioned to concentrate on what we are ‘doing’ and to ignore the rest. Concentration cannot be divided. But Concentration is a blockage for meditation. We are conditioned to focus too hard. Focus on what we want, Focus on who we are, Focus on what we do; Focus focus focus. But mediation is about watching not focusing. Watching the unfoldment of existence, of connection, of life through our being.
Meditation is a science and an art. It is also neither of the two. It requires technique, no escaping that. So it can be called a science. It also defies all logic. It is of the heart and not of the mind, so it can be called an art. Meditation is also the greatest mystery there has ever been and so that makes it neither science nor art. It is non-dual dualistic.
Meditation cannot be taught. It is a happening. Slowly, with practice, we learn what it really is. It is a knack. Really it is. One we can simply master with just a little effortless effort, a little practice. Also with true unconditional Love. Actually Love is Meditation & Meditation is Love.
With practice, There come moments of awareness and moments of unawareness. Enjoy the awareness, the happiness, the joy, the peaks and enjoy the unawareness, the sadness, the silence, the valleys too. Once you can enjoy both, you will realize you are neither sad, nor happy. You are the watcher. The watcher is free from all happiness and all sadness, all peaks and all valleys. He is above it all. He is just the watcher, The observer. Then one day, the witness. The watcher is free, my friend because … The watcher IS meditating!
Meditation is the bird with two wings: freedom and love. My effort here in this Buddhafield is to give you both the wings together. Be loving and be free, be loving and be non possessive. Be free but don’t become cold; remain warm, warm with love