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

The Temple of Love – we women – Her Idol Worship 

Idol worship

Idol worship is an expression of prayer, practiced by many & refuted by others. Some say God is in the idol & others say there is God in everything, yet other, like Bhagwan says, ‘there is no God, only godliness.’ Much misunderstood, Bhagwan does not refute idol worship though or mantra chanting for that matter. He agrees with the Shiv Puran, which I have read too, when He says, ‘Idol worship is a technique only to focus a devotee’s energy towards one source of light, so that the darkness is first removed enough. After which point, idol worship is useless, because you have now embodied the light yourself. Wherever you go, there is light. Then there is no God, only godliness.’ So idol worship does have its place in spirituality too, not just in religion. Only in spirituality there is understanding of idol worship, in religion it is blind faith. 

Idol worship & me 

At the start of my spiritual journey about six years ago, I was faced with a challenging crisis, which seemed to be shattering the reality that I’d known all along. I ran to my then safe haven – a colourful town named Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, India. Having been married, at the time into a community of Pushkarna Bhahmins, the Shiva worshiping tribe; having extensively travelled there, & the mystical experiences of 15 years, have me convinced that I have some past life connection with the region. I was brought there. During this particular visit, I was meditating facing the Mehrangarh Fort. It felt like I was only meditating for 30 minutes, but my partner at the time told me I was meditating for 4 hours. The longest at a stretch yet for me. Sure enough, he was right. I saw the clock & was quite surprised. 

I came out of meditation with 3 profound messages that came to me as visions & sounds. 1st I heard, ‘call him’, taking the name of my divine counterpart. I didn’t know that then, so I asked my partner at the time to do the needful. The second vision was profound. I saw a thick steel tube, looked much like a neck. Suddenly a neonish, Aqua blue snake pushed out of the tube. I remember feeling mesmerized. I don’t think I could even imagine a snake so beautiful. That blue colour hasn’t left me till date. It was otherworldly. Since my introduction to the Pushkarna Bhahmin community, Snakes have always been a symbol of Shiva’s protection for me. I’ve dreamt of of the hugest anacondas (sesh naag) for years at a stretch, until the day I started meditating.
In Jodhpur, it is a known fact that the late mother of my then partner, dreamt of snakes until she took to the path of deep meditative idol worship. Whoever she touched was transformed to love. Her picture rests in the in-house temples of all the houses of the old city.  I have never met her, yet her mystical presence on my journey of love cannot be denied. She hasn’t visited for a long time. I know I’ll meet her in the formless. This snake vision was the most important for my life path, ‘Coz it was about me, not about another. 

And the third vision was me meditating in a cave alone. A huge shivling of ice standing before me, that I was meditating on; melted down to a small ice shivling on the palm of my hand. 

I researched the two visions. The blue snake indeed was the colour of the throat chakra & the pipe was the throat. It was a signalling of the start of my journey of truth. One that ‘I’ share in my words – both written & spoken. One that I share through my being. The shivling I looked up to find a buy. I found one in natural quartz that looked exactly like the one in my vision. Incidentally, pure natural quartz is made of solidified ice. I started to worship it with water & chanting. I was never one to do that before this time. It came as a natural thirst. At the time I started to awaken to a divine connection on my journey, I was already blissing out on the presence of Shiva. 

Idol worship began for me with that vision & dropped soon after Bhagwan entered the story. Both were natural processes. However, at The temple of Love I experienced another kind of idol worship 

Another kind of idol worship 

At The Temple of Love, I experienced a different kind of idol worship, which I understood because I was practicing it unaware for the past 3 years of my spiritual journey. A more alive, playful idol worship. Worshiping the light in a ‘being’ of form or a consciousness in the formless. I was doing both – one being shiva himself. Many are devoted in worship to Swami Anand Arun in form & others are surrendered in devotion to Bhagwan’s consciousness in the formless. Scientifically, idol worship or worshiping the light in another, is doing the same thing. Focusing the energy on the light, so darkness disappears. That is why Love is the greatest teacher & beloved is the path itself. I’d like to share a couple of my own experiences from the temple of love. 

An experience of compassion 

In December of last year, a new sanyasin, came to the Temple of Love. He saw me at the library & introduced himself. I introduced myself & then for many months we didn’t talk. Only smiled at each other & wished ‘Pranam’ in passing. The last couple times at the ashram, we became friends. Actually not just the two of us, three of us. A very dear friend, who’s friend this fellow sanyasin is, and myself. One day he said to me, ‘I am in love with you & I want to marry you. And we will have 2 kids’ 😂. Sorry, I don’t mean to laugh, not then, not now. But this friend does make everyone laugh a lot. 

I told him, ‘I can only give you friendship. I feel no romantic love for you & the word marriage scares me. A switch in my mind goes off & everything seems off balance 😂. I also have a bit of a complicated love story & someone already lives in my heart.’ Then he said something that further sealed the deal on no romance for me. He said, ‘I come from a wealthy family & I am wealthy myself. I will take care of you & I will also speak to your parents when they come to the ashram.’ I controlled my laughter this time & said to him, ‘don’t say this to my parents. They will laugh.’

I understand that his intention was in the right place in wanting to take care of me, but that wealthy part was not called for, especially when talking to a sanyasin, as a sanyasin. What does a sanyasin know of wealth & ‘things’. But I understand he was trying to express his feelings, which cannot he expressed in words accurately. 

A little about a fellow sanyasin 

Despite this, everyday he’d bring me flowers or chocolates. I told him a few times, ‘plucked flowers & bouquets make me sad. These beautiful flowers are dead already.’ I’d refuse to take these gifts, but he’d just leave them outside my door. So I told him, ‘I accept your gift but I cannot keep it. I don’t love you the way you want me to. Again, I can give only friendship. So I’ll distribute your love amongst all Sanyasins.’ He liked that & said that’s more than enough for him. However, I saw that his desire overtook him at one point & we landed up fighting. He kept trying, and I was firm on ‘ NO’. Yet, he is a good man. Never crossed a boundary until that point. Is also kind & considerate. 

The thing is, he got a-lot going on. High doses of anti-depressants & beer every night. Healthy lifestyle only goes as far as physical workout & healthy food. Low understanding of mental, emotional & spiritual health. Twice married & divorced & now wants the third 😂. I know he reads everything I write. But I know that he will be happy on his mention in my story.
The temple of love & Bhagwan are helping him heal. Now, he’s really not my type & I feel no romantic love for him. He knows that from day 1. And seeing his past girlfriends, I’m definitely not his type 😂.  He’s into the tall, bold, confident & sexy women. Why not? Some of his Sanyasin female friends, he likes to play with, have started to give me & my friend a little side eye though. Same story, all my life. Regardless, I only ever have a couple hours a day to spend with friends at the ashram. I’m mostly enrolled in all meditations & therapies. 

Ego death at the temple of love 

He was just over-expressing his love one morning at breakfast, in an attempt to joke with me. He crossed a line & I blew up. He’s an egoistic man & retaliated. We fought & that was that. I cut him out instantly. I remember the last thing I told him was, ‘if what you feel is truly love, then it will transform you in ways you can’t imagine. Be in love & be grateful for it. If it is truly love, and you allow it to teach you, and it don’t interfere with someone else’s destiny; Bhagwan will make it happen. But not if you don’t work on your ‘self’ first.’ He’s an irregular meditator, and when he reads this, I know he will start for a bit & fall off again in a couple weeks 😁. He’s probably laughing, ‘Coz I’ve said all of this to him. 

During the fight, He said, ‘Bhagwan told me you would help me.’ I said, ‘I can’t. I’m sorry. I have nothing to give you. If Bhagwan wants to help you through me, he will find a way to show me.’ Sure enough, Bhagwan did show me & not in an easy way. 

This friend, he just always showed up when I was in a talk with fellow Sanyasins. Said he just wanted to hear me speak. And he’d always be sitting at the samadhi just before he knew I’d arrive after morning meditations, to be with Bhagwan. He continued this even after I cut him out. I’d ignore him & he’d just take it with a smile. It reminded me of myself on my own journey. 

I saw myself 

Everything he said, like, ‘I see Bhagwan in you & I don’t want anything from you & I’ll wait for you forever’; I had heard someone saying before too – myself. I was laughing inside at the irony that life is. Wonder how many laughed at me at the time. Yet I understood him. Maybe that is why Bhagwan feels I can help him. Bhagwan knew, I didn’t want to tell him, ‘you’ll learn.’ It’s a painful process but it is the pain of love that makes one evolve. 

Later, something happened in my own spiritual connection that had me reflecting on all the times love was rejected. I remembered, how despite the pain, I was grateful just for love to have awakened in me through the being of a being. Where it has brought me today. So grateful 🤲🏻. Such a gift Love is. Bhagwan showed me in these moments of reflection, how I had disrespected love by doing the same thing with this friend, that I had experienced. Could I have responded differently, instead of reacting? I feel no-thing for him, except an understanding of his experience because I’ve been through it.
A few friends told me that this big ego man was seen crying to Bhagwan multiple times, after I cut him out. I felt terrible but I was also stubborn.  And it wasn’t time. Bhagwan hadn’t shown me yet. He recently reached out to me again through a friend, saying, ‘I’m sorry, I just want us to be okay. I want nothing more.’ I finally responded through my friend & said, ‘we’re good, I don’t love you but I’m here if you need someone to talk to.’ He hasn’t reached out since. I guess he’s scared that I’ll cut him out again. Says he’s grateful enough & that he’s been meditating regularly too 😊. Bhagwan has his ways, I trust Bhagwan but not this friend. He knows it. 

It’s only idol worship 

What He is doing is worshiping the light he sees in a ‘being’ of form. And that is taking him closer to the light. I’ve experienced this too. All the love I have given in devotion to the one, comes back to me in many forms. Love expressed, or given always comes back. Always. Maybe not in the way one wants but in the way one needs. Seeing the divine in another – It is what aligned me with my true path – this spiritual path. Bhagwan needs love in all his Sanyasins to evolve. Without love there is no evolution.
Love only happens when one sees something of the divine in another. And idol worship of an idol or the light is the same. It only serves its purpose when one has fallen in deep love with that which it worships. What he is seeing is not me or my light, it is the light that I have embodied by worshiping the one I first saw the divine light in, & then by worshiping the divine consciousness of Bhagwan. ‘I am not’, only Love Is. 

On the path of love, when desire transforms to devotion, the second phase of the journey begins. Transforming devotion to compassion. This was an experience of pure compassion for me. And in so many ways, beautiful too. 

Another experience of love

In yet another experience, in September of last year, I met a woman in her early thirties. This fellow sanyasin lost her husband some three years ago, after only three months of marriage. I asked her, ‘why didn’t you RE-marry or date again?’ She said, ‘I couldn’t fall in love again.’ She finds a way to come to the ashram every-time she finds out I’m there. Says she just likes talking to me & being in my presence. 

One day she says to me, ‘I’m in love with you. Never thought I’d say this to a woman but I feel that kind of love for you that I felt for my husband.’ Well, it made me a little uncomfortable too but because her expression of love wasn’t of desire, I said, ‘I’m grateful.’ Once again, what she is seeing in me is only bhagwan using my ‘being’ as a catalyst or a gateway for her own evolution. ‘I am not’ Remember, Bhagwan needs awakened love in his Sanyasins to guide their evolution. He is not concerned with external union. He is concerned with inner union. 

The connection is to the light, not me. I’m grateful for she celebrates my being & it makes her happy. I guess, what Bhagwan is saying is ‘you become what you seek & then the seeking ends & the expression of that which you have become begins. For when one is seeking, what does he have to share. Only a half-truth – a lie! He is still seeking, he has not found.’

The feminine power of love 

These are just a couple examples of the open expressions of love that I’ve shared as a glimpse into the ordinary experiences of a Buddhafeild ‘idol worship’, at the Temple of Love. I will share many more experiences & stories in the coming blogs. Mystical ones too. These two though, in particular, have helped me immensely to understand the true power of the seed of love a woman carries. Bhagwan showed me. For ‘I am not’, only Love is. Both of these experiences took place after my second stage of surrender, in September of last year. After I had accepted that although I was not there yet, I must walk the path from worship in devotion to love in compassion. 

The compassion had started to flow but the attachment to the one I worship, hasn’t fully dropped yet. I’m in no hurry to drop it as everything drops on its own, once it is fully experienced & a higher experience presents itself. The thing is, unconditional love is the highest experience. ‘Coz love is god. I’m not sure what’s higher than that but there is some no-thing, which Bhagwan will walk me to & the ‘being’ of the one I see the divine in. 

These experiences were to show me that, ‘idol worship’ of the light has served its purpose. Pushing me to see that it’s time to accept the light that has already accepted me, and plant the seed of love through my being. For what else is left to ‘do’. Grateful 🤲🏻. When a woman falls in love, she automatically surrenders to the divine light, (not the person) that she sees in her man. This automatic surrender is a natural response of feminine energy. Love is feminine energy. The energy of all creation. 

When the feminine energy falls into a natural state of surrender, she becomes sensitive. Her heart is expanded & and throat (truth & expression chakra) starts clearing. She herself is now transforming to an expression of love – the ultimate truth & the greatest mystery. Also love itself – the greatest teacher. I guess it was love looking like a ‘blue’ snake, telling me it was time to seek the truth, to speak it later. 

‘I am not’, Love is the pull 

In my research I found a lot about many women today, like myself, being born with thyroid conditions or other throat conditions; have been persecuted & even eliminated for speaking their truth in past lives. Like the witches of Salem. Their truth seemed like prophecies & they were considered evil. They were only speaking ‘in tune with the reality’ or you can call it ‘intuition’ (ref. Blog post ‘Here’s How?’) In current lives, their journeys are that of speaking their truth yet again and the journey is not free from challenges either. These feminine energies have chosen lifetime after lifetime a purpose of keeping love alive despite the challenges of a loveless world. To keep The truth alive. 

These experiences in particular showed me that this natural surrender in a woman that happens with love, awakens a natural gentleness that a feminine energy is an expression of. This gentleness of being, is a sort of magnetic force that attracts the thirsty for love. The medicine for the Human Condition. The feminine energy, in understanding & acceptance of her natural surrendered state, is most powerful. She plants the seed of love wherever she goes, whoever she touches. Romantic or plutonic. Or just in a hug or just by listening to someone. In so many many ways, she herself is unaware of. 

The strong, masculine energy in women, which I strongly support as well; keeping in mind the Man’s world that ‘We women’ have to negotiate; is attractive too but doesn’t seem to hold the magnetism that existence has expressed in its full potential through a woman. I myself have to switch between my masculine & feminine energies, so I feel the difference myself, through outside response. 

His love is also Hers 

I’ve also learnt that it is very difficult for a Masculine energy, especially in a man’s body to truly fall in love. Deep attraction, lust, all that is quick & misunderstood too. But to fall in love is a different story. Not just with a woman but also with a master. Love breaks the ego & kills it for empty space for the divine light of love to take its place. Love is needed on both journeys. When he does fall in love, he also falls in love from the feminine aspect of himself. It goes deeper than the love of a woman, much much deeper. Love is the feminine energy, even in a man. It is deeper in a man, because it has been suppressed for very long. In love, Then wherever he goes, whatever he touches, he also plants the seed of love. 

There is a lot of divine power in the woman’s acceptance of her intrinsic nature of love; in this Man’s world & for this Man’s world to be also a woman’s world. But this power unearths itself after her ‘idol worship’ of the light is complete & she has now become that which she seeks. The light itself. The need for ‘idol worship’ of devotion automatically drops & she is now just an expression of love. 

The idol worship of Meera & the expression of Radha 

In my understanding the story of Meera & Radha are two chapters of one story of a woman on the path of love (Bhakti). Regardless of the situation-ship or relationship; Chapter 1 is of the ‘idol worshiper’ & Chapter 2 is of the expression of the divine. The compassionate love. 

I’d like to share a conversation with Bhagwan that not only inspired this series but also this first blog post … 

It’s a beautiful day of silence to ‘be’ an expression! An expression of true freedom He says. So ‘I’ ask Him … 

How to ‘be’ an ‘expression’ of the divine, without ‘being’ a ‘watcher’ of the divine? He says, ‘Love is God. YES, BUT … Love is also freedom, even freedom from the ‘idol worship’ of the divine.’

‘Hmm’, I ask in a different way, ‘How to free the ‘idol’ from the ‘watcher’ & yet ‘be’ an expression of the ‘worshiper’? For Meera is an expression of ‘idol worship’. The seeker of Krishna.’ 

‘How to free love from the ‘watcher’ & yet ‘be’ an expression of love?’ ‘I’ continue … ‘How to walk with the divine & not seem like ‘I’ ‘watch’ the divine?’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

‘Radha has an answer for you,’ He says, ‘for when the ‘idol worship’ of Meera is complete; The mystery of Radha is ‘now’ to ‘be’ lived. Radha is just an expression of love, not the ‘idol worshiper’. The ‘play’ in which Krishna ‘plays’ ball with the universe. Radha is the true friend, the play mate of Krishna. His inner world. Radha is a ‘watcher’ only of the ‘self’, not of Krishna. Krishna is the ‘watcher’ of Radha. The ‘play’ of the inward flow of life. ‘Radha is not’ a seeker, only an expression of Krishna. SHE ‘plays’ – YES, BUT … only in silence 🤫 . For Radha IS Krishna. She is the seeking of Meera. Meera’s seeking is complete with Radha.’ ⭕️

‘I am not’ just as ‘Radha is not’, only love is; I do not touch the souls of beings. I do not plant the seed of love. Just as Radha, I am only an expression of Love. In that expression what must happen, happens. The mystery that ‘We women’ are, is not just an experience for the world but also ‘We women’ ourselves. 

‘We women’ are in the Man’s world, but not of it. Before my sanyas, I already had accepted that there is nothing I can’t do that a man can do. Maybe apart from anything of physical strength, which he’d out do me in. But sanyas & the experiences of the Temple of Love, showed me that my greatest strength is in my acceptance of my intrinsic feminine nature. 

We Women 

‘You maybe an exception to the rule, but an exception only proves the rule.’ ~ Bhagwan. 

The handful of women who are the faces of empowered women, is not the reality of We women at large. They are the exceptions to the rule. The majority, however, are not that fortunate. They don’t have opportunities like we do. Realistically, They cannot raise their voices, strongly project themselves. They don’t even care for it. That is not the feminine nature. Feminine energy is still, it don’t find comfort in fight. All they are looking for is peace & some respect & dignity & acceptance for being exactly as they are. Treated like second class citizens of this world, suppressed, depressed, women suffer in many ways in this Man’s world – most of all emotionally but also mentally, physically & spiritually. Therefore the man suffers too at the hands of women, who blame him for their condition. The empowered woman of today, is not a representation of the feminine energy at all. Neither of the women population of the world at large. 

There is no way to hold a position of influence or power in a Man’s world without operating from Masculine Energy. The empowered woman of today has nothing to offer to the non-empowered majority. In fact if anything, she is here to take away from the majority her greatest strength – the feminine power of her Love. And with that she takes away the gentleness that is her gift of magnetism from existence itself. Sadly, In the expression of an empowered woman today, the majority of We women are not reflected. On the contrary, they seem intimidating, overwhelming & & scary to the ordinary woman. There is no inspiration because the circumstances are not the same. The needs are not the same. 

Fear is not a means to inspire change. Fear is a means to control only. Once a woman knows your weakness, knows what scares you, suppresses you; oh can she be nasty! Especially if she operates from the masculine mind. She can use your fear against you to cripple you & kill your spirit. A woman can make or break a man, therefore his world too. 

Handful of women are controlling the narrative of the empowered woman. It actually saddens me, yet, I am grateful that at least Bhagwan has helped me to understand. And gives me multiple opportunities to help other women understand too. The women of the rule, not the exception. For the ones who are an exception are already exceptional & accepted. 

The empowered woman of the Temple of Love

It is not about the masculine or feminine energy, each one of us carries both within & both are needed to navigate life. But to lead from the masculine principal in a competition with Man in his own world & to deny the feminine principle, which contradicts the competition with Man; is essentially the death of the feminine aspect on this planet. The feminine is truly a dying breed & she holds the seed of love. Love is God. To allow her to die, is to allow the divine to die.   

I personally don’t belong to this majority, yet I understand because I get to interact on a one on one basis, everyday with women from such majority. I just speak with them & help them with some tools to unearth their natural feminine power of love. I’ve heard from these women time & again that their sense of self respect, self love & self dependency, has healed, only through the understanding & acceptance of the intrinsic feminine nature & its tremendous force. In this acceptance they find their peace & power, because it is not in constant conflict with their own intrinsic energy. It is in alignment with it. Then, when feminine energy is leading the way energetically, all wars can also be fought with love – the Krishna consciousness way. 

The empowerment of the feminine, her true freedom is in her acceptance of her feminine spirit. And idol worship can be the beginning of that journey back to the ‘self’, because before an idol of God, or a being of divine light; at least the head will bow down. When it’s bowed down enough, the divine will speak to her & to all, through her ‘being’ – that is her empowerment – God or … Godliness. But upon empowerment, her love is needed in this loveless world of a whole lot of noise about love. Then idol worship is futile, ‘Coz She now is divine herself in the light of the power of her Love ❤️ 

I am not here to refute by any means that women must be strong & courageous & survivors & achievers. I’m only here to remind women of their super power. That’s all. I’m grateful that Bhagwan has found so many ways, alongside ‘earning’ a living, for me to ‘share’ my living too. Individually & in small collectives; with many women, who are not by any standard of the world, ‘exceptional’, only ordinary. The rule, not the rule-breaker. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to share a word with them, just to remind them that … 

‘Ordinary is extra ordinary’ 

~ Bhagwan 

Love is no-thing ‘Coz Truth is a Lie 😁

Reality

Reality, is all that we humans can perceive through our 5 senses – touch, taste, smell, see, hear. Any experience beyond these 5 senses is beyond our perceived reality. It is a choice, to accept the experience of the 6th sense as reality or not. A choice to choose our reality. But does that split reality itself? Reality is choice-less, all of it exists in reality whether we perceive it or not, whether we accept it or not.  

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been sitting with the depth of unexpressed reality. What’s real is the truth essentially. Unexpressed! For truth cannot be expressed. Arriving at an understanding that Truth is a lie. How can truth be a lie? Either there is truth or there is lie. How can they both be the same? Yet they are! 😊

Just like love is no-thing. Love really cannot be in any ‘thing’. It is so vast that it can only exist where there is immense empty space. Empty of ‘things’ to contain it. That is why in the world where the first requirement of ‘living’ is to ‘earn’ a ‘living’; love is just ‘nothing’. It has to be nothing. Do you blame man? I don’t. I accept, Yet, ‘I’ choose to understand love as no-thing not nothing. Love is beyond the world of things – matter. Even expression. So love & no-thing is the same 😊. 

Love is a reality. It IS. Yet it is not, unless we can perceive it through our 5 senses. Love is the truth of all reality, one that we choose to accept & one that we don’t choose to accept as well. It is the ultimate truth, therefore the greatest lie. Like god. 

I’m not sure you follow me … 

So I’d like to explore from different perspectives. 

Reality of self 

One of my earliest introductions to spiritual practice was through the third eye meditations of swami Nityananda. He explained the three perceptions of self, which has stayed with me till date. I understood it because I have always basically lived unaware trough that space. Now I am conscious of it. Aware. 

Nityananda says, ‘the three perceptions of self reality are, Mamakara, Ahankara & Anyakara. Mamakara (true self) – how ‘I’ perceives itself; Ahankara (ego self) – how ‘I’ perceives others to perceive ‘I’; Anyakara (projected self) – how ‘I’ is actually perceived by others. When all there ‘Karas’ are aligned, the same; the complete self is realized. Then we live in completion.’ ⭕️. Free from the ‘karma’ of the ‘kara’ 

Essentially what Swami Nityananda is saying is that none of the three ‘Karas’ are aligned in the reality of the 5 senses. Our world. Everyone perceives everything from the limitations of self understanding & experience. The 5 senses are designed to perceive only the outside. Quantifiable matter.   Therefore all self work, unfortunately, gets focused on the latter two, Ahankara (ego self) & Anyakara (projected self). Mamakara remains silent, hidden & misunderstood because it belongs to the reality of the sixth sense. When the true self is the focus, the ego self dissolves unexpressed & therefore the projection dissolves too. There is now just a direct connection between true self & how it is perceived, by self & by the outside. True authenticity, some would say! 

Without trying to explain this inexplicable understanding further, I invite you to meditate on the two paragraphs preceding this one. In my experience, the aligned one is the crazy one. The Rumi, the Meera, the Bhagwan, the Buddha. It finds peace outside the world, which is inside its true self. So all expression is from the true self. But that true self is only a lie inside the outside world because it comes from the part of reality that has not been accepted as perceived reality inside the outside world. Yet it is a truth of the whole reality. Do you follow me? 


From yet another perspective 

Truth is that which IS. Lie is that which is not, yet the lie also IS in the not. The ‘not’ which is yet not perceived or expressed. Don’t mean it don’t exist. It IS because it exists in the ‘not’ part of the reality. Perceivable by the same sixth sense only. 

For instance, a toddler has no perception of truth & lies. He operates from pure innocence. He can say a lie like, ‘god speaks to me’, we accept it as his ‘play’. His innocence. It is his truth in that moment, it may change later. He has no need for consistency. But for an adult, the child’s truth is a lie. The adult is knowledgeable, the child has No knowledge at all. Raw, uncultured, totally focused on what he is doing in the moment. When the focus changes, he is totally focused on the now focus. He is not concerned about the outcome, only the experience. The play. The child has no perceived sense self yet. So there is no split between the inside & the outside. It is total acceptance essentially, in innocence & immaturity. God speaks to the child & also his mommy. Both are reality. No spilt between truth & lies. 

A Buddha, again a lie until attained, is the same as a child. Only difference is that a Buddha is an adult. He has gained knowledge to birth maturity, and then lost all knowledge, to RE-birth the innocence of a child ⭕️. So there is no difference in the innocence of a Buddha & a child, except maturity. A buddha is aware innocence, a child is unaware innocence. Neither hold knowledge; Buddha carries  wisdom & both carry innocence. A Buddha also says, ‘God speaks to me’, again we accept it as Buddha’s ‘play’ of wisdom. But for the rest of the adults of knowledge & maturity, Buddha’s statement is a lie. They only nod their heads because it is Buddha, they accept Buddha, not his truth. How can they? They have ‘not’ yet experienced it. 

A truth of one’s story, is a lie of another’s story. Yet once the story connects, it is one story, where both truth & lies can exist together. Both the truth & the lie can be accepted, & experienced, to transcend to the third state of being – ‘living’ the mystery’. Question less. 

A beautifully divine mystery of 6 years is now a wrap for me, in this understanding that truth is a lie. There is no more mystery left to live. I have lived it, at least this part of the mystery. The seeking of Meera is now a living of the mystery that Radha is. When the flow ‘dhara’ moves inward, ‘Radha’. The outside mystery is lived & revealed 😁. Grateful, so grateful 🤲🏻. The expressed lie, hides the unexpressed truth. It is the same. 

The Tantra way 

From yet another perspective. The story of a seed & the story of a tree. The truth of the seed is a lie of the tree & the truth of the tree is a lie of the seed ⭕️. It sounds like philosophy, because our minds are fragmented (ref blog post titled ‘Here’s How). I’ve explained the fragmentation of the mind in the horizontal dimensions in detail there. So won’t go into it here. Philosophy is of the fragmented mind. The philosophizing of the reality that the mind has a ‘knowledge’ of existing but has no experience of it. The story of the seed and tree is reality not philosophy, because they are not two stories. It is one story from the seed to the tree & from the tree back to the seed. The tree is the seed realized, the seed is the potential tree. Tantra sees the full story. ⭕️

Tantra, as much misunderstood, is not about dark spirituality or sacred sex. The dark is equally accepted as the light, within the ways of tantra & yes, sacred sex is a part of the understanding. However, Tantra is a way of life that sees non-fragmented & accepts the whole as is. Light & dark included. Truth & lies included. Tantra is a state of ‘being’ that, slowly but surely, is the transcendence of all dualities ☯️. 

Tantra sees the tree in the seed & the seed in the tree, that is why it is associated with mysteries & mystics; witches & prophecies. But it’s basic principle is that, darkness is not, where light is. There is no fight between truth & lies, no fight between light & dark. When light comes, darkness disappears. When a candle is lit, the darkness will not say, ‘I will not go. I will fight to stay.’ Tantra is a misunderstood expression of the vertical dimensions of reality, or one can call it, the sixth sense. Therefore, misunderstood. Fragmented in understanding from the consciousness of the horizontal dimension. 

Tantra is a constant remembrance that life is a ‘play’ of existence. To split it between truth & lies is to split the ‘play’ of life into real & unreal. It is not a complete experience of the show that life is. In the ways of tantra, there is no truth & there is no lie, only a complete acceptance of the ‘living’ of the mystery called life. Tantra don’t allow a split, it accepts all – the known & the unknown; it plays with both. It expresses both. It is the true authenticity of tantra. Therefore tantriks & tantrikas seem eccentric inside the outside reality.  There is no split of truth or lie in their experience of the ‘play’. The ‘leela’ that life is. 

Truth cannot be in words 🤫 

Love is no-thing, because truth is a lie. Truth is that which cannot be expressed in words. Especially the spoken word. Therefore it is a lie. Love that can be expressed in the spoken word, is not love. It is only a feeling that seems like love. Thoughts & feelings are temporary. Love is eternal. It is the divine itself. Love can only be expressed as creativity. ‘Coz love is creation. She is creation. She is love. The truth that love is can only be expressed as a lie that no-thing is, within the confines of the limitations of expression in the so called free world. How to express this in words? But in a song, or a dance or poetry or a painting it can be expressed. 

One might argue that love has most exquisitely & eloquently been expressed in words by a Rumi or a Meera. Only because the ‘play’ of words IS their creative expression. They have expressed love through their whole being, not just words. Their ‘being’ is their creative expression. YES, BUT … not without paying the price of speaking the truth in a hypocritical world.
I often wonder, had a Rumi or a Meera been afraid of being consistently questioned & laughed at during their time, how would they ever stand as an encouragement for those like me? To me they say, ‘it’s okay, it’s okay to be questioned & laughed at now, just so love can live eternally; because it lives in your creative expression of the self.’ That’s all they say to me in all of their contradictory words of love & truth. It is all no-thing & lies 😊. Meaningless in the world of matter of the 5 senses. They have lived only from the sixth sense & used the 5 senses not to perceive only to express. 

Truth can only be expressed through creativity. The rest is all a lie. One of the greatest kept secrets of religion is Love itself. Because love is God. Jesus said god is love & his love is the unaccepted secret of Christianity. The lie that IS in the not. Not of Christ, of Christianity. The love story of Jesus & Mary Magdalene. Where, on the one hand, Radha, Hinduism’s (not Krishna’s) secret love; has been expressed in the words of hymns; the love of Jesus has been secretly expressed in code through Da Vinci’s paintings. The longer love is a secret, the divine will remain a secret to this world. Love & truth are not words, so they are no-thing & lies. Yet in this ‘play’ of no-thing & lies, love needs to be expressed. For love to live. It is the only expression of God. 

The last question !

It’s All just a ‘play’ – truth or lie, don’t matter. Love expressed as creativity is not just a gift for one, it is a gift for all. A gift of freedom. A gift of love. So Keep playing & gratefully enjoy this beautiful play that existence has given us an opportunity to experience. She accepts your lie & knows your truth too. She withdraws in the acceptance of your lie, she stays in the knowing of your truth. Much like Mother Earth & the Pandemic. It creates a split in the reality & man is confused. The truth is always evident in a lie because it is the same. The truth you ‘stand by’ & not ‘necessarily’ tell, to create a lie, is always clear as day.
All three ‘karas’ are aligning. Once aligned, there will be no experience left in expression. And expression is an experience. Only silence will Be in the absence of expression. Don’t just play, also say, whenever you’re ready to say; until then just play. For the truth can live in the lie of the play. Yes it can – The Tantra way 👍🏻

I wonder, Can this no-thing that love is & this Lie that the truth is, that I try to express in words; be expressed in creativity not of words too? YES? NO? YES, BUT ? 😁

Is there anything left in this play, 

Except the lie that’s left to say? 

Or is there still a reason to save, 

The truth, 

will you take it to the grave? 

Say it like truth, or say it like a lie, 

Will you express it before you die? 

Let me know that Love is, 

I know … yet …

Whoever she is, divinity is  … 

For until ‘you’ express or say, 

How can ‘I’ STOP the play? 🥹🙏🏻

With immense immense Gratitude for the lies of no-thing that has lead to the un-expected & unexpressed truth of love after (almost) six long years 🙏🏻

In celebration of the truth & the lie, please let the  truth live in the lie of the play. YES? NO? YES, BUT? 😊

~ MaPJ ~

Reflections from the vertical 💫

A little Catch up 

Oh! How I’ve missed this space. And how grateful ‘I’ is to be back here. I left off months ago at the vertical dimensions of existence. Today ‘I’ stands at a space on the vertical where ‘I’ can reflect, only to share. For ‘I am not’, but a word – HIS 👆🏻word – just an expression of ‘being’. 

Not that I didn’t explore with the word in this time, but not as an expression. Mostly just as a ‘word’ at this point. This space belongs to HIM (Bhagwan). Here I dance too 💃 not just sing 🎶. So even the late nights in the moonlight, seem beautiful here. What it’s ‘doing’ is meaningless to me, yet what it ‘does’ is meaningful. That meaning ain’t ‘I’, for ‘I am not’. That meaning is Love ❤️. ‘Coz love is god! 

Getting ready for the vertical 

I’m going to use my own journey as a reference, for this post. Although each individual has a unique journey, the core experience of a transition from the horizontal to the vertical, is the same. 

At the onset of my spiritual journey, almost 6 years ago now, the vertical dimension opened up for me (ref. Blog post titled ‘Here’s How?’). I could see it clearly but I couldn’t jump high enough to enter it. For the first 3 years, I only played with the light falling down on me from the mystical vertical dimension, that was now open to me but not reachable. It required a very big jump – a leap of faith into an unknown portal, which was only visible to me. A door 🚪 that those closest to me, at the time, couldn’t even see. 

I recognized early, that I’d first have to ‘get ready’ to take this jump, so I started to do the work. I worked with many common tools, available in the markets of the horizontal dimension (3D world); simultaneously embracing my biggest fear of aloneness. The most painful part of the journey, YES, BUT … a much needed one. 3 and half years later, I reached the first stage of surrender to divine will. Ready to give up my fight with myself, accepting that ‘I’ cannot ‘do’ anything else to prepare for the leap. 

With that surrender, came the magic 🪄, knocking on the very door that I’d tried to reach all this while. I heard HIM ask, ‘May I come in?’ And before I could reply, the door finally opened & I found myself at the temple of love – The Tapoban International Commune in Nepal. A man dressed in a robe & mala, who I had only seen in my dreams, was sitting in front of me in form, totally aware that HIS mystical master had brought me here too, just for a long chat 😊. 

Entering the vertical

Finally the silence had broken. The vertical was speaking to me as Bhagwan, and I started listening as Ma Prem Jaya (victorious love ❤️), an undefined ‘being’ – a sanyasin. 

The leap of faith into the vertical dimension for me was sanyas. But can one enter the vertical without sanyas – yes, of course. Why not? But I don’t know that way. If not sanyas, at least a guide from the vertical really helps. There is so much word about spirituality in the horizontal dimensions, some truly about the spirit, and so much more about the ‘I’dentity’ of spirituality. A guide helps, as a constant reminder, to not get lost in the ‘I’dentity’ & to keep rising beyond the attachments of the horizontal dimensions. 

Does the horizontal disappear? 

No. It doesn’t. At least not on the path of neo-sanyas. The horizontal dimension is the dimension of ‘karma’ – it continues as is. I found only my own relationship to karma changing. Before the door of the vertical opened for me, I was still in a struggle between the karmic & the spiritual worlds. They seemed conflicting. Only when I could see the horizontal dimension from a higher floor in the building of consciousness, did I see that there is no conflict, except within my own self. The split in duality within myself was manifesting as a split in the karmic reality. 

In the early days of sanyas, I understood the true meaning of Krishna’s statement from the ‘Gita’ – ‘He alone wins, who doesn’t want to win’. And a literal win of a 4 year long legal battle, ‘happened’ as a validation to my understanding. The first stage of surrender had already happened before sanyas, which essentially meant that, I had already understood that whatever happens, ‘I am not’. Existence is working through me. All ‘doing’ is existence’s ‘doing’. Therefore all ‘karma’ is existence’s karma. 

I found, that releasing myself from attachments to outcomes of my ‘doings’ in the horizontal dimension; is the key to the door of the vertical. Now for me this happened before the voice of the master started speaking to me. He only validated my understanding. But for some this shift in understanding may need a guide. It depends on many factors, including the ‘work’ done on the self, in previous lifetimes too. 

The horizontal remains, all ‘doing’ remains; only the ‘doer’ disappears. Then the door to the vertical opens, with or without a guide or sanyas. 

Two years in this vertical dimension of existence, I’d like to address a couple questions that I’ve been repeatedly asked. 

What’s the hurry? 

Actually there is no hurry at all to enter the vertical dimension. The cycle of life & death is continuous & eternal ⭕️. The journey of life itself is a spiritual one & each lifetime, we evolve, slowly but surely. There is no hurry to enter the vertical dimension. One has all of eternity to enter it. 

However, the karmic wheel is a never ending one. Karma never wraps up. In order to wrap up something karmic (as I had to do), we build more karma. As long as ‘I’, the ‘doer’ is there, there is no way out of the karmic cycle. So it really isn’t a question of hurry. One cannot enter the vertical as a ‘doer’. Therefore, it turns into cycles of karma building up lifetimes after lifetimes, even carrying karma forth into future lifetimes; with no door to the vertical dimension in sight. 

So there is no hurry. The moment one understands that ‘I am not’ the ‘doer’; the door to the vertical dimension opens up & automatically takes one in. The horizontal remains the same but now one is not building any karma. All karma belongs to existence – to the vertical dimension itself. There is no hurry, only the experience of living the mystery of life as an awakened or enlightened consciousness is a whole other experience of true freedom. 

It’s the freedom to ‘be in the world, but not of it’. 

Does one need a master for the vertical? 

Essentially the answer is No. However, as Rumi says, ‘a 2 year journey takes 200 years without a guide’. That’s all. And there is a small difference in the nature of enlightenment with & without a master. The difference between an ‘Arhat’ & a ‘Bodhisattva’. 

I’d like to share the story of J.Krishnamurthy to explain this better but first the difference between an ‘Arhat’ & a ‘Bodhisattva’. One who is enlightened ‘Arhat’ has contributed all he can to the evolution of mankind by being enlightened. He has already crossed over to the other shore. He has no responsibilities left on this shore. The self is realized. 

A Bodhisattva is of enlightened consciousness but not enlightened. He sees the other shore and he need only take one more step to the other shore. However, he still has a responsibility left on this shore. To connect through love, to his consciousness as many as he can. So that when he takes that final step to the other shore, a collective of consciousness within mankind evolves together. A Bodhisattva is responsible for collective consciousness evolution, via self realization. 

So which one am ‘I’ & which one are ‘you’? That existence alone knows. Yet another mystery of life to be lived, not solved.   

J. Krishnamurthy 

J. Krishnamurthy is a consciousness that I much admire. An enlightened ‘Arhat’, he has contributed much to those who can understand him. He don’t speak to the ordinary mind. And there is not an iota of ‘ego’ in that. It is the truth of His ‘being’. 

J.Krishnamurthy’s birth was a planned project of the theosophical society, at the time, included the likes of Madam Annie Besant. The 24th Buddha had professed before leaving his body that ‘2500 years later, when religion is redundant, & the relationship between man & god must change, I will return as Maitreya Buddha, as the teacher of the New World.’ The New World, or New Earth, which began at the onset of the recent pandemic. 

J. Krishnamurthy is a soul swap project of the theosophical society. The right parents were picked to call in a highly evolved consciousness into incarnation. Krishnamurthy was then taken away by the theosophical society to be prepared for the soul swap. Annie Besant & others of the theosophical society are the teachers of Krishnamurthy. His gurus. 

Man has always tried to control nature. It cannot be done. At the age of 16, being a highly evolved consciousness, Krishnamurthy revolted against the soul swap, declaring freedom for his realized self. Nothing wrong with that at all but … The 100 year project was a fail. Later, Maitreya Buddha incarnated into a modest Jain home in Jabalpur, as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 😊. 

J. Krishnamurthy’s philosophy 

J. Krishnamurthy, as enlightened ‘Arhat’ is self realized and has no responsibility towards collective consciousness evolution. Yet, he speaks. He speaks from compassion – the highest expression of love. Krishnamurthy is a practical man, yet he speaks of love. ‘Coz love is the nature of the vertical dimension. He is of the vertical dimension too but he is not a guide. If you notice, Krishnamurthy speaks of the experience of enlightenment but not of the ‘how’ to get there. He has no responsibility to as He is not a teacher. He is a philosopher, speaker & author. 

Krishnamurthy states that there is no need of a guru for self realization. Yet, the presence of teachers on his own journey cannot be denied. The importance of a teacher is reflected in his first book, ‘At the feet of the master’; which he wrote at the age of 14. This was before his revolt at the age of 16 and so he denies that it reflects his own philosophy. 

What exactly is a master? 

A master is a vibrational frequency of the vertical dimension, that matches the vibrational frequency of the master within self (the higher self). During Sanyas initiation or ‘Shakti path’, the master (or his medium), awakens the frequency of the master within self; via transmission of vertical dimension energy into the third eye chakra. Essentially, the master creates a space within the Sanyasin’s energy field, through which the energy of the master from the vertical dimension can work easily on the sanyasin, or disciple. 

The consciousness of a master also acts as a reminder of a Bodhisattva, as he takes the responsibility of all his disciples. It takes lifetimes of hard work before the master begins to speak & guide. And then it takes lifetimes to enlightenment. Bhagwan guarantees enlightenment in one lifetime for the dedicated Sanyasins & two at the most for the lazy or slow ones 😂. 

A master can guide & teach & walk along all the way, but even the master cannot enter the door of the final temple with the disciple. That door admits only one ☝🏻. Rama Krishna stood at the door of the temple to his enlightenment for months at a stretch, only because he was unable to leave his master, Goddess Kali, behind. He ultimately had to take his sword 🗡️ and split her in half (of course in consciousness) before he could enter the door. 

That is why Bhagwan says, ‘I’m here to love you. I bring only love. but when you are love, don’t cling to my love, for that will become your barrier.’ A master is the love of the vertical dimension. 

The love of the vertical 

The vertical dimension is made up of only that which all of existence is made of – the frequency of unconditional love. The door to the vertical dimension maybe another ‘being’, a teacher, god himself or love itself. No matter what form the vertical shows up in, if you can see it (the vertical), love must’ve happened. For it is only love that can call in the vertical! 😊

Here’s How 

Understanding

A dear friend of mine, before her neo sanyas initiation asked me, ‘how can you understand so much?’ It was not a question I was expecting ‘Coz I’ve never thought of it. So I replied, ‘I don’t know.’ But the question stuck with me. As a means of a deeper enquiry into myself. A week later, a senior sanyasin asked me at breakfast, ‘how is your understanding so deep?’. And this time the answer was there. In that moment I didn’t quite know how I had arrived at the answer but now I understand, which I’ll attempt to share in this blog. I replied, 

‘It is because, at all given moments in life, I’m ready to accept that I understand nothing. In fact, I know that I know nothing. It drops the entire knowledgeability, entire mind, entire ego in a second. Space is created for understanding. There is no interference of the mind and so the understanding goes deep. But’, I said, ‘this only happens because I’m not consciously doing it. I’m only ready for whatever comes, the process is happening on its own. If I do it consciously, again the mind will interfere.’ She said she’d try it & I wondered how she’d try, ‘Coz it cannot be done, it can only be understood. So had she said, ‘I understand’, that would make more sense to me. I didn’t quite fully understand myself then. Now, 

What is understanding? 

Understanding is awareness. Normally, we carry around a database of knowledge, which we have acquired from the world outside & our experiences with the outside world. The world outside has given us knowledge & our experiences have given us wisdom. But wisdom that is based on knowledge acquired from the outside. This together constitutes our sense of ‘I’ and our understanding of the world. The whole ego. Essentially knowledge is not the same as understanding. Knowledge is acquired from the outside and understanding is something that grows from within us. Once we understand something, it places itself in our consciousness and we operate from that understanding, not the knowledge we’ve acquired. It is a natural process. 

Understanding is a deep rooted energy & so it cannot be swayed or manipulated. It becomes an awareness. We become aware of what we understand. Awareness becomes A part of the being. our parents, teachers & friends have imparted great knowledge from which they’ve operated too. But they haven’t told us how they got there. They are also living from knowledge given to them & their own experiences based on that same knowledge. No two experiences of life can be the same, ‘Coz each man is a unique individual with his own experiences. Each needs to flower uniquely individual. The society in contradiction is designed in a way that ‘one size fits all’. This is why, all the fighting for equality. Essentially the fight is for equal opportunity to be different. To be unique. 

Even great wisdom received from wise men, cannot become an understanding, unless we know the how. It remains only knowledge. We don’t know how the wise man got to that understanding. A wise man’s words are irrelevant, meaningless to the ordinary mind, until he understands it. To understand, he must know how to get to it. The journey is important, the setting & circumstance is important, not the destination. I’ll try to share a perspective & a possible process. 

Acceptance – The first step to understanding   

The first step to understanding, which is essentially awareness, is to accept. The very first step is to accept everything, including yourself, as it is. Without judgement, without wanting to change anything. To accept all as it is. Inside & outside. This is the hardest part, acceptance. Because the ego won’t accept all as it is. It needs a fight. It lives to fight & feeds on conflict. But without any judgement of right or wrong, accept. The best way I found is to not let the ego interfere at all. It will, but once the inner being has accepted, the ego cannot do anything. Whatever it takes, tears, anger, catharsis, helplessness, whatever. Just accept. Once the acceptance has happened, the rest is easy, or rather, easier, I should say. 

The moment of acceptance is crucial. Suddenly, all the becoming stops. The chasing, the running, the dream. Everything stands still. There is no movement. There is no desire for horizontal (outward) growth for a moment. We drop all knowledge. In that moment, the energy drops closest to the grounding navel centre, which is the only space from where bliss can be experienced. This centre is touched during orgasmic sexual experiences & during meditations. That is why both create bliss. One is temporary. The other is more long lasting. In those moments of calm, in the bliss, a new dimension of experience opens up. The vertical. 

The vertical dimension 

One of my earliest introductions to meditation was through a daily 20 minute guided third eye meditation on YouTube by swami Nityananda. Something he said, instantly caught my intrigue & seems to be the best way to explain vertical growth.
He said, ‘intuition is nothing more than being ‘in tune with reality’. Imagine, a person standing on the ground floor of a building can see 100 meters on either side of the road & in front. He cannot see what’s behind him at all. But a person standing on the 11th floor of the same building, can see 2 Kms in all directions. He has a birds-eye view. If he says that don’t cross the road, a car is coming from 1 km away, The man on the ground floor upon seeing the car will say he had an intuition. But it was not intuition. It was only being in tune with reality. Man on the ground floor is only in tune with 100 metres. The man on 11th floor is in tune with only 2 kms. That’s all. Neither can see all unless he is the open sky himself.’ 

Beautifully said. The horizontal dimension is the ground floor. The dimension of outward expansion/growth. The 3rd dimension. The vertical dimension is the entire building. Each floor has a higher vision & a higher experience of the same circumstance on the ground floor. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th dimensions of existence. The man on the ground floor sees an elephant on the road, he sees the trunk and by the time he walks to the tail, he cannot see the trunk. The mind works in fragments. The full picture is never available to the sight. The man on the 11th floor need not be fragmented in his vision of the elephant. He can see the whole elephant. The elephant is a metaphor for any circumstance that we are faced with in life. 

The horizontal dimension is our world. No need for any explanation there. The vertical dimension is available anywhere, at any point in time, when we are ready to accept all as it is. It is a surrender to life itself. The moment we stop the fight with life, many dimensions of existence are open to us. 

Understanding = healing 

A friend of mine said to me the other day, ‘the entire construct of the the ego, is to cover up our deepest wound – a feeling of unworthiness’. It’s an incredible understanding and can only come from a reason focused masculine energy. Because the ego is stronger in a man. His ego will not surrender before he understands. 

The human condition, this deepest wound is a need to be needed. This stems from a deep seeded knowledge of unworthiness, a feeling of not being good enough. From our earliest days, we have been conditioned to ‘become’ not ‘be’. The entire construct of society, our world, is to ‘become’. We are educated & conditioned to become. So essentially, we are not accepted as we are. There is no value of our being until we become. There is no education system that teaches a child how to ‘be’, just throws him into a world of ‘becoming’ without even a ‘how’. Only with an ego, filled with knowledge. 

So everyone wants a unique, individual destiny, but is following the footsteps on paths already walked by others. It is in hopes of a similar experience. The seat is one, the chasers are many. That same experience cannot be repeated. For the same story to be written again, all the characters in the given individual’s life journey will have to be the same and so will the experiences. That is not possible. So more often than not, the becoming leads to a feeling of failure, adding further to our human condition of unworthiness. For a unique individual destiny to unfold, we must be willing to walk the paths not walked before. And the horizontal dimensions have few, if any, undiscovered paths to walk on. 

This wound of unworthiness is essentially the lack of love as children, resulting in the lack of love in the world. Love accepts as it is. There is no need to become. The becoming itself is a barrier to ‘be’. The ‘being’ is nothing but vertical dimensions of growth. There is growth. And love is the nature of being. We all suffer from this feeling of unworthiness, some less, some more but we are all suffering from the human condition. The more we have love, the higher we rise, the more we understand, the more we heal this condition. 

The healing happens on its own & so does understanding & so does love. We just need to accept & ‘be’ ready. Ready for the ‘I’ to die. Healing is from the ego. The ego is a thick coverup that don’t let the wound heal. The wound must be open & dressed with medicine for it to heal. A cover up don’t help, no matter how thick it is. Understanding is healing because healing is ego death. 

What you can’t achieve, Supersede 

‘What you can’t achieve, supersede.’ This is one of the greatest wisdom, imparted as knowledge, to me at an early age by my mother. I always knew it but only understood it, much later in life, through my own journey. My mother couldn’t teach me the how, although she tried a lot, but to no effect. This is ‘Coz we are intrinsically designed for different paths of life. She is a ‘karma yogi’ & I’m a ‘Bhakti & Gyan yogi’. Her path is of ‘doing’, my path is of ‘being’. But both of us transformed the same knowledge into our individual wisdom. The destination don’t matter because it is the same. We arrived at the same understanding. But our journeys are uniquely individual. 

So to supersede, is to rise above. What we can’t achieve, we either chase, or run from, or blame. Either ways it is a conflict, a fight with what life is presenting us. The moment we drop the fight & choose to ‘be’ the vertical dimensions open up. What we can’t achieve is already a block to further becoming. We must achieve it or reject it to move forward to become some more. Else we are stuck. And stuck means, we are incapable of ‘doing’. So what to do? Don’t ‘do’. Just ‘be’ & rise above it. 

The mind cannot ‘be’ 

But the mind, the ego cannot ‘be’. It needs to ‘be’ occupied ‘doing’ to cover up the wound & there is nothing ‘I’ can ‘do’, except to accept all as it is. Including the mind and it’s need to do. The mind is essentially the servant not the master. It only ‘thinks’ it’s the master. Mind can be reminded that you are the master, not the mind. It can be told that the ‘doing’ from this point on is to ‘be’. The ‘being’, meditation, internal growth, vertical expansion; call it anything, can be the doing itself. Not that you can move forward anyways. You are stuck till you become. But you can move upwards. That direction is never blocked by anything outside ourselves. 

As we rise higher through the vertical dimensions, our understanding expands, the vision expands. The situation we were trying to achieve, seems achievable now but also minute compared to the extent of the vision. The big vision as we call it. The visionary. With these higher states of consciousness, vertical growth; it becomes close to impossible for the energy of understanding to be swayed or manipulated. One, because you just don’t need external advise or validations to take any decisions. Two, you know you can see the full picture as compared to someone who is only seeing part of it from the ground floor.
With vertical growth, one can not only supersede what one cannot achieve, one can also expand beyond the vision one originally had. This is healing the wound of unworthiness without becoming. From the birds-eye view you can also see which roads to walk (freeways), which to avoid (traffic jams) to get to a particular destination.

One becomes one’s own gps navigator just by ‘being’. 

Loveless man

Have you ever watched a child? The innocence of a child? The child don’t operate from the mind. He don’t have no Knowledgeability yet. The child ‘does’ what he feels. He lets the feeling lead him. The parents are busy with guests lets say, for instance. And the child starts to seek attention. He wants to be seen. Acknowledged. One parent will scold the child, telling him he did something wrong by disturbing before guests. Another parent will give attention just for a moment to shut the child up and then send him to his room. And a third parent will give the child attention & include the child in the conversation. 

Each parent is operating from their knowledge of love. What each parent has known as love, seen as love. But essentially love only gives & accepts as it is. As my mother often says, ‘there is no guide book for raising children. Each child is unique.’ Love can be the only guide. Love in any form is the greatest teacher. My sibling and me have been raised with the same values but very differently. Our individual need for attention varies immensely. Even our need for guidance varies immensely. Even siblings cannot be raised alike. Each child’s need for love is different. 

How you’re loved is how worthy you feel

The child who was scolded, and who was sent to the room, feel unworthy and with multiple such circumstances, unworthiness becomes their reality. Then he either accepts himself as unworthy and moves through life, or he doesn’t accept and rebels his way through life to prove his worthiness. This wound of unworthiness, It can manifest in any area of life, personal or professional. It subconsciously leads all decisions in his life.  

The child who was included in the conversation, feels worthy. In fact you can say, no perception or feeling of worthiness was raised or affected. The question of worthiness hasn’t arisen because he has not yet felt any unworthiness. The conflict is only between the dualities. This child only feels the love. Feels satisfied. There is no need for attention left. It is there. Need for attention is only an asking for love 💕 

The world outside the home plays a big part too but the child’s own sense of worth that comes from the home always leads the way. We all carry this wound of unworthiness as the ego through life. To heal this wound is to re-parent ourselves, this time with love. And love accepts as it is. 

Transforming energy 

Our entire ego, that is to cover up the unworthiness wound, is basically conditioning; which is essentially energy. Everything is energy. It can be anger, greed, jealousy, desire for love (sex), happiness, peace. Whatever we are made up off. All of it is only energy. And energy cannot be killed, suppressed or eradicated. Whatever we suppress, try to deny, it will show up in another form in another area of life. It is energy, and energy cannot remain without flowing. It cannot be denied but it can be transformed. 

All energy can be transformed. And once it is transformed, it expresses the same energy through a higher quality. Vertical growth is the only way energy can transform and the catalytic thread, the path itself is Love. When energy transforms, the physical manifestations can be seen in the horizontal dimension too. It may not look like the original vision but for certain, the original vision will look small compared to the big reality unfolding. Life is happening to us then.  I’ll try to share my understanding on energy transformations below. 

Distorted love to divine love

Love is one of the most chased after means of covering the wound of unworthiness. When we feel loved, when we get love from another, our ego gets satisfied that ‘I am worthy.’ That child’s need for attention is satisfied. Need to be loved is the ego. Wanting to give love is love itself. For a man the journey of love begins as a desire for love (sex). It is not lust that he will act on. Sex is a desire to get love because he has been loved the least. It manifests first for a man as a sexual desire. For a woman, the journey of love begins again as a need to be loved. A desire for love. For her it may not manifest as sexual but will manifest as romantic love. 

Like the body needs oxygen to live, the soul needs love to live. Love is a need for us but love’s need is only to give. If love is there, any energy can be transformed to a higher expression. The being can grow. When in love (honeymoon phase), sex can be transformed to eternal love, and love can be transformed to compassion. The more sex energy one has, the faster the transformation. A highly sexual man is most probable to enlighten if his sexual energy is transformed to love. Once sex is transformed, so is lust and other sexual addictions. Freedom – But love is needed for any transformation. A relationship based purely on attraction or lust cannot transform. There is no love

Only in love is one willing to fully surrender the ego. In love, ‘you’ is always more important than ‘I’. When there is no ‘I’, there is love. The lover sees the divine in his beloved. This is not possible in a relationship based on pure attraction or lust. There is no love for transformation. When in love, if the sexual expression of love (sex) is made meditative, sex will transform to eternal love, and eventually sex May drop but love will remain as love or be further transformed to compassion. Passion realized is compassion. Distorted love that ends in boredom, transforms to divine love that is eternal. 

So here’s how 

So how to make sex meditative? One, see the divine in the beloved, so their body is transformed to a temple for you. This is only possible with the one you love. Two, keep the focus on the third eye, between your eyebrows. This keeps one conscious, aware to the experience & for the understanding of love to happen. Three, take it as slow as you can. Enjoy not in minutes, but in hours. Of course there are many other techniques but these are the basic three to transform sex energy to real love. Over time, love will grow, and sex will go 😊. The same peak of an orgasmic bliss, will become the natural state of being. 

Once you have love, you have god. You can transform any energy by making it meditative. Tantra is full of such techniques to make our entire life a meditative experience, no matter what we are doing. All energies can be transformed through vertical growth. Anger, greed, jealousy, all worldly desires; they can all be transformed with love. How they will express once transformed, will depend on the individuality of the being. In consciousness we are all the same with the same wound to heal, with the same ego to break through; but we all flower uniquely individual. Even with the other, The path is always alone, but the experience is oneness. The experience is transforming, it is healing.

Enjoy it to transform it

The only way to transform any energy is to fully and totally enjoy it. So totally that when it’s lower expression drops, you don’t miss it. You’ve played with the toy enough, you don’t cling to it. If it is sex, enjoy it so totally, with such conscious presence, that when it drops, you don’t miss it. You don’t even think of it. It has transformed to divine love. if it is any other desire, enjoy it so totally, that when ot drops, you don’t miss it. It drops only to create space for a higher experience. You are not defined by your experiences. in fact, you are not defined. period. But to enjoy anything fully, you will have to go into it. The way even to rise above, is always through, not around.  

As you rise in love, you will get farther away from the ground floor. A certain detachment from the world will seep in. As you detach from the need to be needed in the world, you will also detach from the material aspects of yourself. The body. You will only use your body & your mind when it is needed. You will see not just the world but yourself too from the birds-eye view. Then you will understand yourself back to the innocence of the child still feeling unworthy in you. You can love that child through his healing journey back to worthiness. 

Love is the only way to rise, the only ‘how’ to heal, the only thing to understand, the only catalyst for transformation. 

Can Meera happen today?

Who is Meera? 

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.’ 

THE VIEW FROM A WINDOW 🪟 

Preface

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 

My View from the window – Nature & The Light

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)’. 


so …

You may be an exception,

but …An exception only proves the rule

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The One


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’. 😊

Why so silent?

To be completely honest, I’m literally forcing myself to write this one. Not that I don’t want to write, but my schedule here at the meditation commune, doesn’t allow any time for me to do so. I can certainly give up on some sleep to write, which I need more of while I’m here; and I was definitely guided to do so. I trust someone needs this right now or else existence wouldn’t work through me this way.
I’d like to apologize in advance, if this one seems a bit snappy, as I’m a bit irritated, which may certainly show up in this blog post. Why am I irritated? Well, I can’t really point out one specific reason, as a lot of unknown suppressions come up to the surface during catharsis mediations for me. But there is one specific topic that calls to me today, so I’ll concentrate on that – SILENCE! 

Silence has a very special place in my journey. Personally, I love to chat but I’ve come to realize that I actually fell in love with ‘Silence’, when I fell in love with a person, a few years ago. It’s quite obvious that God needed me to understand the language of silence. Silence, is beautiful, it’s language is deep and profound. I feel blessed to have found it but I gotta be honest; it sometimes irritates me! Not the silence itself per se, but the intention behind it. 

When silence happens as a natural process, it’s blissful, calming, quiet. And when silence is forced, it’s ugly, anxious, noisy! But why would silence be forced? Well, it’s a thing. A way of controlling an outcome. You know, we human beings are such a bunch of egotistical beasts, we can’t have true faith. We can’t accept that there is a force bigger than ourselves, beyond our control. I call it the life force. Sometimes, we choose silence to force an outcome but what we hope to achieve, rarely ever happens. And if it does, it’s not what we expected at all. Yet we don’t learn and keep retreating to our old ways of trying to control life.
In short, we can’t be innocent like children. A child never thinks before he speaks. He says what he wants to. He has no fear of being judged. There is authenticity in his expression, godliness in his authenticity. Are you ever offended with the words of a child? Even if they’re sour? 

So I ask, why can’t we clearly speak what we feel? I may know why. Because we ‘think’ we will be judged for the way we feel. It’s only a perception, not reality. But our ego won’t let us see the illusion of the perception. The other reason is that we aren’t even in touch with what we truly feel because we haven’t learnt to give our feelings any weight. Our ego is so focused on how others see us, that unless we break through it considerably, we are only living for others. Aren’t we living according to how others will perceive us? It’s not our life at all and we are fools thinking we are in control. I ask also, why do we need to control our lives?

If we want something; why can’t we say it without a fear of the outcome? If we need time, why can’t we say it, without knowing the outcome? If we don’t want something; why can’t we say it, without fearing hurting the other? Their hurt is their journey, their problem. By holding ourselves back from authentically expressing our truth, we also hold back the other’s journey. The hurt, the pain may be exactly what they need to grow but we think we know better. We think we are accumulating good karma by suffering ourselves and not hurting the other. Clearly, the universe doesn’t see it that way. The universe only sees how we are holding up another’s journey, another’s growth. 

I used to be married. For a long time, I was unhappy but I ‘thought’ that if I left him, he’d die. So I stayed longer than I should’ve. When I ultimately spoke my truth, followed my heart and left him; much to my surprise, he didn’t die. In fact he became stronger. I couldn’t see the bigger picture from my small eyes of my small self while I was in it.
We are so conditioned to complicate our own lives. What’s the worst that could happen if we speak our truth? We don’t get what we want, what we desire. That’s all. The way I see it, this ain’t bad at all. Nothing is lost. We may end up getting what’s better than that which we wanted through our small selves. Have you ever thought of this? What’s terrible in fact, in my opinion, is the pain we continue to put ourselves through instead. 

Everything looses its charm, it’s meaning, it’s worth, when overdone, even silence! Let me share a story of a disciple & his master in this context. Once upon a time there was a newly initiated disciple to a very strict master. Upon initiation, the master told the disciple, ‘Your journey of silence begins from now. Let’s see how long you can wait!’ It is an age old tradition for masters to test the patience of their disciples. The disciple was aware of this and replied, ‘okay, let’s see how long you can wait too!’ The master remained silent for an entire life time as the disciple evolved though silence.
Not just through one lifetime, but the awakened master had to keep incarnating, just for this disciple again and again. The disciple never asked, the master never spoke. The master began to loose patience instead. He was irritated that he had to keep coming back to life just for one disciple. After all, he was responsible for his disciple, to hand over the key to enlightenment! 

Then one day the master spoke. He called upon his disciple and handed him the key. The disciple smiled and said, ‘is that all? I can wait more. Can’t you wait?’ The master was shocked and said, ‘what are you made of? It has been so many lives. I know you can wait but I’m tired of coming back again and again just to give you the key. Here, take it and free me.’ The disciple laughed and said, ‘it has been so long that silence itself has taught me all there is to know. I don’t need the key from you. I have already found it.’ The master’s head hung down in despair and he said, ‘I was afraid this would happen some day. You won’t need the key anymore. That is why I decided to break the silence.’ 

The silence of the master was forced. It was a disguised form of the ego. He thought he was controlling the evolution of his disciple. But in the end his karma & his dharma remained unfulfilled. On the other hand, the silence of the disciple was a happening. It was blissful. He had dropped all control. In fact it wasn’t in his control and he understood this from the start. He evolved without the words of his master. His dharma and his karma was fulfilled on its own. 

Sometimes it happens, silence happens on its own. When silence isn’t forced, it happens on its own, between two beings. Then no words are needed, then telepathic communication can happen. And there is no misunderstanding in such deep states of consciousness communication. But to get there, fear, doubt; the illusions of the ego must drop first. 

So to sum up, I say, speak. Speak like a child does. Then no matter what you say, it can’t offend. Speak without a fear of the outcome. Be authentic. Be true to yourself and yourself alone. Un-complicate your life. Don’t beat around the bush. Whatever it is, good or bad, is not for us to judge. In fact there is no good, no bad; no right, no wrong. All there is, is the intention behind the words. Not the words themselves. Because words are meaningless.
Words become meaningful when silence becomes meaningless. So be intentionally direct. Intentionally straight forward. And by that I don’t mean intention towards the other. I mean intention towards the self. The intention of authenticity. If you Love, speak it or If you hate, speak it & If you want, speak it or If you don’t want, speak it & If you’re angry, speak it & If you’re irritated, speak it & If you’re jealous, speak it. I say again, fear is an illusion, doubt is an illusion & pain is an illusion too. Then why so silent?   

Recently, my amazing mother, came to visit me at the commune. This distinction between forced silence & a naturally happening silence became a reality; a realization really. For many months now, in fear of my mother’s judgement; I had been silent about a truth of my present existence. It was a forced silence. Also she had been silent with me about me. Then when she was here I told her that i wanted to donate to the commune and become a resident member, which allows me to spend upto 5 months a year for the entirety of my life span, within this Buddha field. Surprisingly, she didn’t even blink an eyelid before saying, ’Go ahead, you earn for your experiences.’ There was no judgement.

So I asked her, ’why aren’t you reacting?’ She then shared with me that for the past year since my Sanyas, She had faced alot of opinionated friends and family, who didn’t have the balls to ask me. This was in regards to my sanyas initiation. Had I joined a cult? Was I following a sex guru? What about my career? etc etc. I asked her how she dealt with it. She said only one thing after that, ’Now I’ll tell them proudly that yes my daughter is a Sanyasin. I’m proud to have birthed a strong, intelligent and compassionate woman.’
The only fear holding me back from fully exploring my spirituality was gone in a moment. Just like that! She came, she saw, she experienced first hand. She heard what I was being taught here. And she said to swamiji Anand Arun, my guru; ’I’ve given you my daughter. She never belonged to me anyways but now She belongs to Bhagwan. I’m grateful for all the Love she has received here.’ It was an immensely humbling experience.

The Path of enlightenment, the sole destiny of every soul, is one of three love stories. Is one of three distinct merging of consciousness. The first is the beloved. I’m so grateful to my beloved, who opened himself up enough for me to experience a consciousness merging, even just for days. As they say, ’better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Who wouldn’t want a physical union but thats not in my control. It belongs to life.

The second is The Master. As I move into my second full week of silence in Vipassna, to merge deeper in consciousness with my master, talking about the place of speaking and words seemed to call. I guess ’He’ has his ways!

And the final is the merging with God. That is a ways to go for me! Then there are no words!

SO,

Ask, and you shall receive

Jesus Christ

A blessing or a curse?

Chapter 1

The Creator’s Gift 

Once upon a time, in a world full of mystery, surrounded by all his magnificent creations, the Creator was busy creating away. As the creator did each morning, He held a soul and filled it with some light. Then he moulded the soul into a ball of light and split it in two. This was strange. Never before had the Creator split his creation this way! An angel, one of the Creator’s first creations, was watching in awe, as the Creator created. When he saw the soul being split, he asked, ‘why did you do that, Creator?’ 

The Creator replied, ‘This soul belongs to a loving & wise, old angel. It is too old & wise for a little boy. So I’m Creating a little boy and a little girl, to share the wisdom.’ 

The angel looked puzzled and asked again, ‘but won’t they grow old too?’ 

The Creator smiled and said, ‘of course they will, but only for those outside of them. My creations have all grown old, but sadly, none grow up anymore. Their souls are too old & only children grow up. My creations have lost their innocence. I want to see a grown up man and a grown up woman instead of an old man and an old woman. My old creations don’t look so magnificent any more. This little boy & this little girl will grow old with a soul of a child.

I’ll give him my hands to create  and I’ll give her my wings to fly.  
They will play on the earth  and also in the sky.  


Together, they will plant the seeds of love from our world of mystery & their eternal home.’ 

The angel was thrilled but still looked confused, ‘Creator’, he said, ‘how will they meet each other?’ 

The creator replied, ‘They will find each other. They are the same soul.’ And as he said this, the Creator grabbed some light from the sun and filled the boy’s heart with it. Then he did the same with some light from the moon and filled the girl’s heart with it. The boy with the golden heart & the girl with the pure heart, were handed to the angel, who flew them to their earthly homes. 

Chapter 2

Growing Up

The boy with the Golden heart, was named Sun. He was born into a home of respect & admiration, into all the riches of the world. He had the hands of the Creator. Everything he touched, turned to gold. He was gifted, and he was different. All the other children wanted to play with him because he was so different, so special. They were fascinated! 

But they also bullied Sun, because he was so different, so special. They were fearful too! They wanted what he had but he wanted nothing. Sun already had everything. He just wanted to play & didn’t understand why they were so mean. He didn’t know he was gifted. They wanted his hands, they wanted his heart. Everything else, they already had. Sun began to play alone. With his hands, with his heart, with the sand and with the water, with the flowers and with the trees. 

The girl with the pure heart was named Moon. She was born into a home of respect & knowledge. Although she was born in an environment of modest means, her mommy worked hard to give her everything she wanted. Everything the other children wanted. But Moon just wanted to fly. She was gifted and she was different. All the other children wanted to play with her because of her wings and her pure heart. They were fascinated! 

But not many were allowed to play with her because of her wings and her pure heart. They were fearful too! She was the most popular girl in school. She had some friends, who loved to fly with her and take the kindness of her pure heart. But she didn’t understand why she never received much kindness back. She didn’t know she was gifted. They just wanted to fly with her. They wanted the love of her pure heart. There was nothing else that she had to give. Moon started playing alone. With her wings, with her heart, with the birds and with the clouds, with the fairies and with the angels. 

Sun & Moon both lived in their own respective dream worlds. They were mischievous, always doing what they were told not to do. Their elders always scolded them. Sun was told, 

‘you can’t be living in your dreams,  
This world is reality, and it screams.  
Don’t be hurting again, just do as I tell you to,  
Or just sit tight, and let me do it all for you.’   

Moon’s elders said the same but her mommy always said it differently. Moon’s mommy told her, 

‘you can’t be living in your dreams, 
This world is reality, and it screams. 
Even If you hurt again, still do as YOU want to, 
Don’t sit tight, fight for what feels right for you.

Sun just wanted to play and Moon just wanted to fly. He didn’t want to hurt and she didn’t want to fight. 

Back in the world of mystery, the angel was saddened as he watched Sun and Moon playing alone. He said to the Creator, ‘The most precious creations of the Creator, play alone. One hurts & the other fights. It makes me sad. Why oh Creator, with all of their gifts? Oh Creator, tell me, is it a blessing or a curse?’ 

The Creator smiled, as he lovingly watched Sun sitting on a tree. He asked the angel, 

‘Until they see that there is no Love, 
Why will they plant the seed of Love?’

The angel walked away, scratching his head, pondering over the answer. 

Chapter 3

Falling in Love

The boy with the golden heart, grew up to be a fine young gentleman. Respected and admired. He was handsome. Many wanted to be his friend. He helped them as a true friend but he didn’t let them get too close. He remembered ‘growing up’. Then one day, he met a fine young lady and fell in love. They played together, in the sun and the sand, in the rain and the ocean.

It was so fresh, it felt like love, & it was fun. 
Forgot his hands for love, this little boy Sun!

Until one day, it was no more. The love was gone and Sun was left heart broken. He said to God, 

‘I can’t be living in my own dreams, 
This world is reality, and it screams.
Love ain’t real, if it is just show it to me, 
Now I’ll create my life, as I want it to be. 

Sun remembered his hands but had forgotten how to play with them. His friends were there to help him but he was different. He was special. Everyone wanted his gifted hands & his Golden heart.

Meanwhile, the girl with the pure heart, grew up to be a fine young lady. She was beautiful, smart & kind. Many wanted to be her friend but were always too scared to approach her. Now she didn’t bother too much about wanting friends. All she wanted was to love & to fly. One day, she met a young gentleman. He was shy and he loved to create. He was so sad. Moon wanted to give him some love. 

It felt like love & she wanted it oh so soon, 
Traded her wings for love, this little girl Moon. 

Until one day, all she wanted was just to be happy. Her man said he’d be happy with a castle in the sand. She wanted to fly, but she wanted to be happy more. Moon prayed to God, 

‘I can’t be living in my own dreams, 
This world is reality, and it screams.
Take away my wings, and give me the hands, 
To create the castle, he wants in the sands.’ 

The Creator granted Moon her wish with a condition. The creator said, 

‘I’ll grant you your wish, ‘coz I love you,  
Go build your castle, foolish you two.  
He’s my child, I’ll love him till the end day,  
But when the castle is built, you’ll do as I say.’  

Moon agreed and although she missed her wings, she started to build the sand castle in hopes of happiness. As the castle progressed, there was still no sign of happiness. She was still so alone. 

From the World of mystery, the angel watched and was saddened yet again. He asked the Creator, ‘one has his hands back but forgets how to play with them. The other gave her wings away just for a castle in the sand. He thinks he is in control of his life and she thinks she can build happiness. A heart of gold and a pure heart, still alone and also sad. Oh Creator, tell me now, is it a blessing or a curse?’ 

The Creator smiled, as he lovingly watched Moon gazing into the stars. He asked the angel, 

‘Until they see, that there is no Love,  
Why will they plant, the seed of Love?’ 

The angel had no answer. He flew away with his head hanging down with grief. 

Chapter 4

The Meeting

Moon’s sand castle was almost nearing the end but there was still no sign of happiness. Moon missed her wings but she hoped happiness would come instead. Then one day, Moon met Sun and there was a spark. With Sun also came happiness. Suddenly, the boy with the golden heart had illuminated the darkness in the pure heart of the little girl Moon. She started glowing like the moon herself. Moon was so confused, so puzzled. She asked God, 

‘Why do I shine, like the moon Oh Lord? 
And why do I feel, this undeniable cord?’ 

The Creator laughed, ‘Hahaha’, and he replied, 

‘My child, the moon don’t shine, without the sun, 
In the light you’re one, and in the light he will run. 
But don’t you chase, and don’t you run any day! 
I’ll finish the castle, now you’ll do as I say!’ 

Moon remembered her promise to God and said, 

‘I’ll do as you say, I remember that day, 
I’ll walk alone too, if you show me that way. 
But what is this gift, I see in him oh lord? 
I must have it too, because of the cord?’ 

The Creator laughed again, ‘Hahahaha’, and continued, 

‘Don’t you see my hands in his? 
Now fly with your wings, here it is!’ 

The Creator returned Moon’s wings to her and also gave her a seed of love. Now she knew how to build a castle in the sand but had forgotten how to fly. But she was happy to have her wings back. Sun & Moon started to play in silence. 🤫 

As they’d play, the light would grow, 
Glowing happiness, that would show. 

The angel watching from the world of mystery, was happy for the first time in a long time. He saw hope but still remembered what the Creator had told Moon, ‘In the light you’re one, and in the light he will run’. He asked the Creator, ‘sun & Moon both have their gifts now but forget how to play with them. Oh Creator, tell me, will it be a blessing or a curse? 

The Creator smiled, as he lovingly watched Sun & Moon playing a game. He asked the angel, 

‘Until he sees, that indeed there is Love, 
How will they plant, the seed of Love?’

The angel was too happy to even register what the Creator said and he flew off humming a love  song. 

Chapter 5

The Seed of Love

The meeting was divine but their play didn’t last long. Exactly as the Creator had told Moon, as the light grew, Sun began to run as far as he could. Moon tried in every way she knew to love him. But he didn’t want any love. He feared Moon’s love. The Creator had warned Moon not to chase, but she did it anyway. She became sad. She began to feel like there was something wrong with her. Her sand castle was built and she was now alone again. She was scared but she had her wings and she had a seed of Love. 

Watching Moon so helpless, the angel became sad again. Without asking the Creator, he decided to help Sun & Moon out a bit. One night, the angel appeared in Moon’s dream and told her that Sun was always watching out for her. She didn’t believe it as Sun wouldn’t even speak to her. But the angel guided her to the places where Sun was keeping an eye on her from. The angel said, ‘Sun just wants to play.’ Moon asked the angel, ‘so why don’t he say so?’ The angel smiled and replied, ‘he doesn’t know how to.’ 

Moon felt humbled. Her love for Sun grew. She became happy again & started to watch out for Sun too, at the same places he kept an eye on her from. She started to glow like the moon again. Sun & Moon watched out for each other, unaware that others watched in on them. They wanted to play the game too but Sun & Moon were playing with their gifts now. The others were fascinated! They tried to spoil the game. They were jealous too! And they were fearful too! 

Moon became tired of the others watching in and she still hadn’t remembered how to fly again. Moon decided not to play anymore and learn how to fly again. The Creator & the angel on watching this, became very concerned. Moon held the seed of Love. The Creator asked the angel to guide Moon back to Love and teach her how to fly. The angel disguised himself as a new friend and asked Moon, ‘What is the matter?’ Moon told the angel, 

‘All I want, is to give him my love, 
He plays with me, like a lone Dove.’ 
So let go of Love, I just wanna fly, 
Fly back to meet, my friends in the sky.’ 

The angel hugged Moon and said to her, for the first time in rhyme, 

‘There’s a school I know, to learn to fly,
I’m a teacher there, I’ll take you to the sky.’ 

Moon was thrilled but wondered if it was really possible to fly again. As she remembered her flights, she said to the angel, 

‘I love my wings, more than my Prada purse, 
But I wonder often, is it a blessing or a curse?’ 

The angel smiled, as he looked into Moon’s pure heart. He softly said within himself, 

‘Until you see, the power of love,    
How will you plant the seed of Love?’

Chapter 6

The Mystery School ✨

The angel took Moon to a mystery school, where she met others like herself, for the first time. She met others with so many different gifts. She made friends, who didn’t want anything from her. They all had their own gifts, which they shared and they cared. She couldn’t believe that there was a world like this. 

At the Mystery school She started to remember how to fly and she also started to heal her love. She learnt 

Love is unconditional, it only gives, 
Don’t ask for nothing & it always lives.

Moon was filled with so much love at the mystery school, that she didn’t long for Sun’s love anymore. But she still longed to give him all her love. Then something mysterious happened. Moon now started to feel Sun’s love. He was still scared but he wanted love now. Love overcame them both. They started to play again. The others started to watch again. They ignited the fear. They created a mess. Moon’s Love was ’too much’. Sun feared hurting so he ran again. 

Then one day, there could be no more play, 
Both hearts broken, there was nothing to say.
Silence took over, but the love was still there. 
Moon’s tired of fighting, still there’s care.     

Moon cried to the angel and begged,

‘He don’t love me, please let him go, 
Let me go too, if he wants it so.’ 

The angel asked Moon, ‘did Sun say, he wants to let go?’ Moon replied, 

‘No my teacher, but it’s all I want to know, 
Does he wannna play, or he want me to go?’ 

The angel smiled and he said, 

‘Until he says so, keep loving him my friend, 
Until happily ever after, it’s never the end.
Whenever he knocks, just give him your love, 
Don’t ask for his, love him like a lone dove. 
And when he is gone, with your wings just fly, 
Bring back some gifts, to share from the sky.’   

Hope returned in Moon’s eyes. Moon knew she could do this. but she wanted to be loved too. She said to the angel, 

‘I will do as you say, 
God sent you my way, 
But what about love, 
Will I too be a lone dove?’ 

The angel promised Moon, 

‘I promise you dear love, 
You’re not a lone dove, 
Love is what you are, 
Share it my shining star.’ 

The angel went to the Creator and said, ‘I’m doing my best and leaving the rest. Her Love is so pure, it melts my heart. I promised her she won’t be alone. But tell me oh Creator, her heart, is it a blessing or a curse?’ 

The Creator smiled as he lovingly watched Sun playing with his hands, creating something colourful. He said to the angel, 

‘Now they see, that indeed there is love, 
Now they can plant the seed of love.’ 

The angel was hopeful that Sun would love again some day. 

Chapter 7

The Power of Love ❤️

The pure heart, she started sharing her love, 
as gifts she brought, from the skies above. 

Moon was getting better at flying. She was busy practicing flying and sharing gifts. Meanwhile, and all this while, Moon was aware that Sun was watching out for her. He intently watched everything she shared. But what she was unaware of, was the power of Love. 

One day, as she was sharing her love for all who needed it, the angel came along and interrupted her. He grabbed her by both her arms & pulled her into the mystery room. Looking into a mirror, the angel showed Moon a story. The story of A boy with the golden heart. He said the Creator wanted Moon to know. Her heart was filled with Love.
He then showed her Sun. Today. 

Moon saw Sun, sharing love, spreading joy. 
She was so happy, just to see him enjoy. 
She longed to play, it wasn’t sour, 
He was turning, their PAIN into POWER! 

Moon’s eyes were filled with tears of joy. She hugged the angel and said to him, 

‘Oh divine being, is this magic I see? 
He is now love, now is it meant to be?’ 

The angel looked at Moon with Love and said, 

‘There’s no magic, only a subtle mystery, 
Love is the present, the rest is history. 
You keep sharing, let him create, 
Love is so rare, at first it will irritate. 
Live only to see, the flower blossom, 
Whatever will be, will be awesome.’

So now … Sun & Moon play sometimes

Love costs a lot more, than a Prada purse, 
But it’s a blessing, it only looks like a curse. 
So now Sun creates, with the hands of Love 
and Moon shares stories, from the skies above.

And so she shares

A Story for a Mystic

who’s the mystic? Please show yourself, 
I see you, forget not, I’m a mystic myself. 

Watching me here, watching me there too, 
I’m a mystic too, Don’t run when I spot you. 

Lemme tell you a story of Eternal Love, 
Two different stories, of a lone dove.

When it came as woman, Love was a tale, 
When it came as man, Love would fail. 

When it came as ‘One’, a story was told, 
A story so divine, for the young & the old. 

So don’t you run, the moment I spot you, 
I’m a mystic too, I know your story too. 

I know, the story you so eagerly wait to hear, 
You have a beautiful one, of your own my dear. 

I know, the story you so eagerly wait to tell, 
I have so many stories, of my own to tell. 

So come along sit, let’s have a long chat,
I Can’t chase it, been there, done that. 

If you wanna hear a story, I have many to tell, 
Of when the butterfly, breaks out of its shell. 

I know my stories, can sometimes be tough, 
Promise it’s love, I don’t mean to be rough. 

‘She’ is a mother, she don’t love like a brother, 
Mom’s love was tough, & she loves like a mother. 

When the heart of Gold, wants a pure heart, 
I’ll tell a story sweet, to play my tiny part. 

So …

who’s the mystic? Please show yourself, 
I see you, forget not, I’m a mystic myself. 😊
To be continued …