Love in Vairaag
What is Vairaag?
Vairaag is essentially to ‘be in the world but not of it.’ Engaging with it, yet not belonging to it. Being one’s own colour but not being coloured by anything of any world. Vairaag is to accept everything, enjoy whatever one wants, yet belong to no-thing. One can also call it true freedom. It is experienced differently by different people. Some find vairaag in creativity, some in travel, some in silence inside.
Not another soul, than Shakti herself, proved time & time again that she was love beyond heartbreak. Love beyond shiva himself. Only a play of existence. Only a complete surrender in love & faith. Unless one experiences a desire/want or … transcends the mind that is attached to the experience, it remains. Shakti had only the latter as a choice for many lives. Shakti is a choiceless expression of existence. Brahma had no choice but to create Her. Shiva would not take his soul, his feminine energy back after creation was created. He was fearful to loose the soulless Vairaag that he had found.
Despite Shakti herself as an evidence of a love that’s higher than heartbreak, even after physical union; Shiva never took her to Vairaag with Him. So everytime Shiva ran away to Vairaag, Shakti would find a little more of herself. She found her own Vairaag. In fact she created her greatest gift to mankind, while Shiva was in his Vairaag & she was in hers – Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. Ganesha, a dear friend, who showed up during the first painful experience on my journey. I wondered, we pray to Ganesha at the beginning of a journey. My journey, as I misunderstood at the time, had ended before it even began. Why was Ganesha showing up? 🤷🏻♀️
I befriended Him, to learn the original blueprint of love – ShivShakti ☯️
ShivShakti
Shiva had given away his feminine energy, Shakti, to Brahma to create the Brahman. Or one can call it the soul. Actually there is no soul really. It is only no-thing ness. But whatever it is, it’s nature is of love. When there is love, that love is the soul. The soul is feminine energy. This feminine energy of Shiva, his soul, incarnated in many forms but is essentially Shakti.
When Shiva encountered Shakti, there was a strong connection. Obviously, she held his soul. It must’ve been burdening for Her too. She probably just wanted to return his soul to him. But it was her soul too; a very very big one. The physical can be split, but not the soul. At the soul we are all ‘the one’. But it overwhelmed Shiva. He is a vairaagi, how could he possibly be with her? The illusion of the physical. He ran. And he ran as far as he could. She chased & then she got tired of chasing. So she surrendered to the divine. She found her own Vairaag in silence & meditation – dhyan & gyan. The more she surrendered to the divine, the more Shiva surrendered to love.
When they “united” in physical union, even after that, shiva would run away into Vairaag, leaving Shakti behind. She never stopped him, for love is freedom. During his Vairaag, she found her own individual path, separate from Shiva, one of her own making, much like shiva’s Vairaag but different. In this case – shiva is silence & Shakti is expression. Expressing her creativity, the most exquisite of which is Lord Ganesha – the remover of obstacles, created during one of Shiva’s longest Vairaag. Grateful to walk with Ganesha 😊🙏🏻
Love is eternal. structure don’t last
It is definitely a sad story we see in all the great love stories of the world, yet, something of the original blueprint of love rests in them alone. The Romeo Juliet, the Laila Majnu, The Heer Ranjha, The Sheree Farhad, The Jesus & Mary Magdalene. ‘Not’ RadheKrishna. They are a different story. RadheKrishna are the original blueprint of love in form. They are the solution to the sadness in the other stories. They are the solution to all the pain of love. Not that there is no pain but there is no regrets. Life keeps moving on Vairaag. They are beyond heartbreak together, yet alone. The difference is of playfulness only. A non-serious approach to love. They are love in a deep friendship.
The world always comes between true love – the original blueprint. By the world I don’t mean only people, I mean everything; the structure or its conditionings as well. The world is outside, but there is a whole world inside too. As within, so without. When Rumi says, ‘we need not find love but only remove all the barriers within ourselves that we built to keep it out’ (something to that effect), there is truth in that. There is the soul in that expression of his being, in surrender, in love.
All the other lovers, courageously fought the world & it’s created barriers (conditionings inside first & then manifested outside). Only to establish their love. To give it a structure. They rebelled for the freedom to be together in love. So they failed. Because love cannot fight, it always just surrenders. So the lovers failed, yet, love succeeded.
The thing is, love is eternal, yet it is not designed to last, it is designed only to experience. Love don’t ever die either. Once you love someone, that love never dies, even after one falls in love with someone else. Love only transforms & as it transforms, it also evolves the being to the highest frequency of love. Romantic love, transforms to deep love, and deep love transforms to compassion. Essentially true love cannot be structured in any way, in any relationship. It can only be experienced as a deep friendship free of worldly barriers.
RadheKrishna
Krishna says, ‘He alone wins, who doesn’t want to win.’ Keeping this in mind, the lovers of the greatest love stories lost, because they wanted to win against the world. But love is so soft, so surrendered & so gentle; it cannot fight any strongly defended world – inside a being or outside a being. Yet, ultimately love always wins, because it doesn’t want to win.
RadheKrishna, did not fight for their love. They only celebrated it, sometimes together, mostly physically apart. For separation is only of the physical. There is no separation in one soul. RadheKriahna did not fight for their love. They are not seeking any structure. They are not even seeking to establish their love in any ways of the world. RadheKrishna are only living love in their Vairaag. They only played in love. They understand that all of life is just a play & nothing else. Their love is also just a play. The separation is an illusion of the physical, yet a reality that can be experienced in love.
Although the story of RadheKrishna is only a metaphor expression of the inner world of Krishna, His love story, it holds significant mysteries of the original blueprint of love.
The original blueprint of Love
In the story of RadheKrishna, at one stage, Radha accepts sanyas as her path of Vairaag (freedom). Not too different to Meera, yet one filled with more play, more joy, more freedom. Meera is longing for Krishna, Radha is celebrating Krishna.
Krishna on the other hand is anything but sanyasin. He is play at its finest expression. His Vairaag is in his play. Spontaneous, colourful, all over the place. He is the one who tunes Radha to understand the tunes of his Vairaag, over time; so she can find her own play – her own Vairaag. Her own freedom of being. She finds it in sanyas.
To me it is significant that in this story there is no struggle to structure love. There cannot be because Radha does not exist, except as Krishna’s own inward flow of life. Yet, it only symbolizes that love is not meant to be a struggle. Relationship can be but love is not a struggle. It is meant only to be celebrated, together or alone. Because RadheKrishna are not struggling to establish, to structure anything, they have acceptance, respect & understanding of each other’s Vairaag (path of freedom). When together, they celebrate love in all its expressions, when separate they are an individual expressions of love in their individual vairaag.
The original blueprint of love cannot be found in any relationship. It can be found in some connections. The original blueprint of love is one ☝🏻, yet separate. If love were a home, and the pillars were too close together, the roof would fall down. Also if they are too far apart … but closeness is of the heart, not of the physical. In love but in Vairaag.
Love is the nature of the soul. If one can feel love, the soul is there, somewhere. In the original blueprint, She (regardless of gender) has the soul. She IS the soul. And the soul is the way home in Vairaag (freedom). In the original blueprint, one can have it all – freedom, soul & home. YES, BUT … home only ultimately.
The original blueprint of love – the more she surrenders to the divine, the more he surrenders to love. Love in Vairaag.
Bhagwan says 😊
‘Freedom is of a higher value than love but love is freedom.’ ~Bhagwan
Do you see the paradox? Reality is always beyond duality. The struggle between love & freedom is the gift of structuring love, in which true love is lost – Lost Love. Yet love is freedom & the struggle is only of the mind – the mind is the world. Bhagwan says, ‘experience love, experience companionship, but be a good friend first. Don’t take away another’s freedom, & don’t give away yours. Give love & receive with gratitude whatever you get as love. Love only gives, wants nothing & takes away nothing. Freedom is higher than love but love is freedom.’ ⭕️
When one moves in Vairaag, yet in love; then there is true freedom. Nothing seems to be missing. One feels whole, complete, & at home. No matter where one is. No matter if he is with the one he loves or with himself in the world. Love in Vairaag can be nothing more than a playful friendship, one that is free of the world (inside & outside).
On a little side note, I can’t help but notice that all love great stories originating from the west, lead with the masculine name first & all originating from the East, lead with the feminine name first. There is significance in this. The west is masculine in its approach to life – the Mind. The East is feminine in its approach to life – the soul (no-thing ness). Neither is a balanced approach. Life is beyond the mind & in the nature of the soul – Love. When love is, life is in the now, not in a future, not in a past. But the current structure of the world is based on the western knowledge of the ‘Garden of Eden’ – the fruit of knowledge, without the fruit of life.
Life is not in the knowledge (the barriers); life is in the experience of it now, in love in Vairaag. All love stories of the world, fought for their love against the barriers for a future for the love. RadheKrishna played in love now, regardless of a future. The feminine energy holds the soul, and when she leads the energy of a being; soul, home, freedom is all in the same place, not physically – inside of a being. Wherever the being is – whole, complete in itself, engaged in the world, yet not coloured of it – Vairaag.
My Vairaag at the Temple of Love ❤️
Vairaag can be found in a space or activity we find most comfort & peace to be in. It feels like home, yet home is always within. But activities & spaces, human connection can certainly beautify the process. In freedom a being of love can be expressed in its original blueprint; which then unintentionally but surely shifts the surrounding to the original blueprint as well, no matter where the Vairaag takes one.
I found Vairaag in the mystical world always. Travelling to spaces & activities that connect me to that which is beyond the world of structure. For many years, I found it in tarot, stones, pendulums, some astrology. This was the beginning of my path truly connecting to the soul. Later I found Vairaag at the temple of love – in sanyas. A real physically manifested mystical world – my recharging station also my resting space. ‘I will always be in Vairaag. I will always be in sanyas.’ It is a different kinda flight, yet it is the same. Only Vairaag.
My expression of Vairaag
Early on my Sanyas Path, Bhagwan gifted me with the gift of meaningless words, to play around with expressing the inexpressible truth I had found in love in Vairaag ❤️🙏🏻. Mostly through the written word. I played around with poetry & prose. Then a year and a half ago, something stopped me from reading tarot publicly. Actually I stopped myself, in fear of some outside circumstances. I just limited tarot to private readings post that. So I used the past year and a half to pen a book instead, with this new found gift that I’d found. A little over half way through, a few months ago, I met with a serious writers block & have it on the shelf since. Yet, I also experimented with blog writing, which again in fear of outside circumstances, stopped writing a few months ago.
In these past few months, many experiences, mundane & mystical, have been pointing in the direction of the spoken word. Bhagwan being loud & clear, ‘Be available to me as I am available to you.’ Yet, the barriers of the mind. The spoken word is a bigger responsibility. It is a little more alive than the written word, it has expression & voice & tone & movement. And to speak on subjects that have already gotten me considerable criticism from many voices; requires courage. And especially to speak from a space of ‘I am not’, being just an expression of that no-thing ness, being just a channel for conscious wisdom; requires immense energy. So I’ve not known how to go about speaking of this Love in Vairaag.
Post my complete surrender, (ref. blog post life in surrender), an employee in a karmic project, who recently returned from the temple of love, reached out to me. Said my business partner had sent him to the ashram to help him with his life issues & the ashram with some PR for the Temple of Love. We all do our bit in our own ways. Told me all of the humbling things he heard about me from the ashramites & swamiji Anand Arun. Grateful 🙏🏻.
He basically manages marketing, positioning & social media publicity for projects & public speakers. I have a feeling Bhagwan made him talk to those I had spoken to 😊. So he approached me & said, ‘I’d like you to speak publicly at platforms & events. I can also get you decent money. I’d like to profile, position & publicize you as a speaker. I’ll have to increase your social media followers gradually, get you some publicity & get you to speaking platforms, which is my area of expertise. I also learnt that you’re writing a book on the Neo Sanyas Movement. I work with many publishers, so I’d like to help you publish & promote that too.’ Bhagwan sent me a manager for my word 😊🙏🏻. Guess I gotta get back to the book then … when I started the book, I had no clue how I’d have it published. The world of the ‘word’ is still an experiment … and also an expression of my being.
I smiled at Bhagwan’s play & told him, ‘okay, do what you will but don’t control the expression of my being. You were sent to profile, position & publicize the expression itself as I don’t want or need publicity. Money is not my concern but I do have a message to deliver. Thank you for reaching out.’ We spoke on the phone for an hour & he says, ‘I’m all the more convinced that your message must be delivered. Then that was that.
I also told him during the chat, that I was inspired by a friend to compile a book of all my poetry too. I have written some, just playing around with words. But I don’t have enough of them yet. When I do, I’d like to get that published & promoted too.’ 😊🙏🏻 My word is only an expression of love in Vairaag, a complete experience of life in freedom. Whatever it needs to get out there, I’ll attract to me. I’m not a ‘doer’ yet the ‘doing’ is. Bhagwan was right when he said to me, ‘some souls are too strong to be a medium. We are only collaborating because we have the same message to deliver.’ Of course too much of a soul, for it is equivalent to two souls in one 😊😉.
In the original blueprint of love – love can only live in Vairaag. It may or may not be celebrated together, but the expression of that love is in individual Vairaag (freedom). It is in that expression that lost love can be revived in humanity only by reviving it within ourselves. For true love is always eternal, yet it is not designed to last in any structure. It is designed for something else, only in its playful expression! A much bigger purpose.
Lost love
This deep understanding of love in Vairaag is not something I’m speaking about for the first time. I’ve been writing about it since I found the word. And since I found faith in love. It is the way of true love. When I speak of love, of divine connection; I speak of true love, the original blueprint – the lost love. Love in Vairaag. Together, yet separate. I’m grateful for truth today, so I can respond, ‘I understand’, of course I do. I’m love in Vairaag too & I’d give it up for nothing’ 😊
One of the biggest triggers in any person is to realize that one may have gotten love wrong. It is a common realization in many people at some point in their lives because it is the truth. All speakers of spirituality are speaking of ways to get to love, because there isn’t much. I’ve received a-lot of love & alot of criticism for writing about true love vs love, yet it is my own individual experience, my own expression of Vairaag, linked to my purpose of being. It is a gift from Bhagwan, which I want to cherish. Whatever existence wants to do with it, it will.
This is actually a topic I can speak about forever, and a more intricate aspect of the original blueprint is the subject matter of my book. The book will get me the most criticism & immense love too, I feel. I should be at a place to humbly, gratefully & playfully smile at it all. Receive what I need & leave the rest.
So with humble acceptance of all paths, because they all lead to the same destination – home; and with immense gratitude for all I have learnt on my journey with the ‘word’ so far; I silence out all the noise that silences me; and I remain open to all the tunes that inspire me. The journey ahead is true freedom, therefore more responsibility too. Two faces of the same coin of duality. And beyond duality is reality. This … Only … so I can continue on my path of the ‘word’, forward in playful & peaceful love in Vairaag 😊🙏🏻
She holds your soul
And she is expressing it …
In her celebration of ‘being’ …
With faith …
In a love in Vairaag!
MaPJ