The temple of Love, is a new series of the written word, that doesn’t belong to any otherworldly or fairytale land. Neither does it take us to the origins of Man (well, it may, in reference). This new series contain my personal stories, learnings, transformation & experiences from a place that found me. Very much on this planet in physical existence. Tapoban International commune, nestled in the Nagarjuna hills of Kathmandu, Nepal.
I call this place, the temple of love ❤️. Really, it is for me. For all who have experienced it actually. Not the Poona ashram, ‘Coz sadly and unfortunately that buddhafield has been long dead. But some ashrams in Nepal & a couple in the USA still have managed to create a Buddha field under the guidance of their connection to the master. Yet, none being as powerful with the alive presence of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as Tapoban is. He really does live there in the mystical happenings. And all the credit to keep love alive in a world of matter, goes to Swamiji Anand Arun, a direct disciple & living medium of His consciousness Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I have been refraining from this series because speaking outside about Bhagwan’s inner world calls for threat in itself. On an everyday basis, Sanyasins & lovers of Bhagwan loose their social media pages to fake copyright infringement claims, only because they are singing in praise of their master. Yet, I figured, like master, like disciple 😁
A world in this world 🌎
Temple of Love series, is set in the world of a Buddhafeild. A space occupied by the highest frequency of energy – unconditional love. Naturally, the people, the ways of life, the experiences are all of Unconditional love. Of the nature of love. Tapoban expressed its wish to include some of my blogs as reading material on the website, so I figured I’d make it worthwhile. Share a real world of transformation, evolution & mystical experiences. In two years of being a part of this world & yet being connected to this outside world, I am aware of the misunderstandings of what goes on inside a ‘Rajneeshi’ ashram. I was inspired to introduce you to it from the eyes of an ordinary individual with ordinary experiences. For it is the ordinariness of Tapoban & it’s people that makes it so extra ordinary.
They say, nothing happens without a reason in Tapoban. Not even a tiny gesture. Nothing is said without meaning or reason. Everything is a ‘play’ of Bhagwan with his Sanyasins, all connected to each other through Bhagwan, yet individuals in their stories of evolution. I share in this series, experiences that helped me understand various aspects of my own spiritual journey & evolution; hoping that you might receive some meaning from it. If no-thing at all, you may want to experience, for yourself, The Temple of Love ❤️
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.’
