Love, a magnanimous celebration

Ignorance rules our world and operates as a glorified arrangement and multi layered mask which we surprisingly revere as ‘Ignorance is bliss’. In this predictable pattern of life, we end up merely scratching the surface with so called fulfillments such as “needs”, “wants” or “desires”. The love for glorifying our ‘role play’ is far more attractive than the magnetism and simplicity of ‘realized self’.

As upwardly mobile socialites, we are enamored by the love for gadgets, toys, and things of pride. Our love for self-glory is often far more overpowering than the feeling of compassion, respect, and honour, which enable our basic ability to feel love for another being. We often use our fractured logic and intellect to sort, understand and measure an experience of love. Most of us have an immense ability to ‘think’ and are often impoverished by our inability to ‘feel’ the depth of love.

We often believe in the stories of limited ‘destiny’. Such is the power of our doubts, that we manifest shadow games in our lives. Doubt is the ‘darkest hour’ in the most ‘brilliant moment’ of our lives. True love blossoms in the absence of fear. It is the radiance of eternal light and it has penetrated, percolated and permeated everywhere into atomic awareness and domains beyond our comprehension.

We have immense ability to rise above karmic limitations if we can calibrate to become consciously aware of being constantly alert, alive and awakened to the pure knowing within. We can develop intense courage to say ‘NO’ to sick societies we have subscribed to. We can cleanse and purge the venom of guilt, fear, shame, taboo and social stigma that have often tamed us into being a victim of our own devices.
Had we not projected this body, we couldn’t have experienced love through the magic of creative flow, beaming through us. As I strolled through the lush gardens in Kevala foundation, the flowers were in full bloom. I felt they were prompting me to “bloom without expectations, with complete abandon”. These fragrant beauties are daringly liberated from the unease of the ‘glare’ of expectations. They were oblivious to attention as though they didn’t care if anyone was watching, admiring or ignoring them. They were just most preciously available for anyone that cared to cast an admiring glance or just walk past without noticing. But they too have been graced with love and gifted with their share of genuine lovers in the form of bees. The bees can sense their intensity of bloom as far as eight miles away and are able to traverse this divine flight path in order to descend on their specially designated gifts from nature. The romance of the bees and flowers have endured for millions of years even before humans landed on this planet.
However unrealistic it may seem, love can blossom uninterrupted when expectations don’t come in the way of its expression. Dropping expectations is the ‘ultimate game changer’ and signifies a supreme victory in our celebration of love while throwing open many gateways to heightened awareness of the magnanimous ‘pure cosmic play’ passing through our sacred space.
Love is the essence of our trust, faith, belief, divinity, freedom, creativity and nature in its elemental flow. It exists in the essence of prana that we breathe from the radiant sun. It manifests in the current of the river that is in love with the ocean.  Nature is constantly inspiring us. The Art form that we have developed or inspired is part of bio-mimicry and yet we fail to truly celebrate the essence of pure love expression.
If one would wish to experience heights of purest love, effort is required to make an intense connection with free-spirited, fine-tuned, aligned, balanced beings that have celebrated the union of shiva-shakti within. It indeed feels special to be able to experience  boundless, free-spirited expression, to dive deep into the fragrance of freedom to just be ‘content within’ without being wary of comparisons, measures, challenges or judgements. Such pure beings are hard to find in a world that is cluttered with pre-conceived limitations.

Interestingly, it is possible that each one of us will attain such an opportunity in a lifetime, to encounter such a ‘mystical love experience’. When such moment of magic occurs, grab the opportunity as if your life would depend on those precious moments. A chance encounter with a ‘realized’ being can be more ‘powerful’ than a ‘lifetime’ of predictable patterns and aimless discussions. A true realized being is in the most intense celebration of love. In such beings there is no room for guilt, fear, shame, rituals, ideals, conventions, rules, logic, limitations, grammar, beliefs and morals that become our stumbling blocks in our path and ability to access divine union. The most precious part of such encounters is the possibility of true surrender without questioning. The fragrance of love is elixir beyond compare. It ignites a state of completion within while keeping us absorbed in nothingness.

If truest love exists, it expresses itself as an oceanic bliss, that is boundless, ego-less, unconditional and free from patterns that serve as resistance. If and when such love happens, it is explosive in nature. The universe exploded in magnanimous celebration to mark the liberation event, The enlightenment of Buddha. Every flower bloomed in delight. All the elements of nature were ignited in response to show their respect for such a rare event that happened to a being on the planet. Lightning, thunder, rains, winds, rivers, oceans, birds, insects, celestial beings, entities and stars all celebrated the event. The whole manifested universe exploded in ecstatic bliss. This extremely rare event of ‘Maha Pari Nirvana’, the supreme liberation that graced Gautama is regarded as the most spectacular, profound, mystical, magnetic and  magical occurrence ever remembered on this planet earth. The very fact that such a powerful universal love is possible, enables us to access the deepest remembrance within.  It gives us a ray of hope and trust to hold on to.

The statement of Buddha “Desire is the greatest cause of all misery” is by far the most ‘profound’, ‘relevant’ and hard-hitting truth. It is deeply etched into my engraved memory channels. I am programmed in sub-conscious awareness to receive an “internal warning” that is loud and clear whenever ‘desire’ dares to distract me from the ‘silence’ and ‘beauty’ of ‘true inner bliss’.

Love is a deep remembrance of our eternal connection. Love is possible in both ‘separation’ and ‘connection’. Love often grows in sense of separation and expresses itself in intense moments of connection. However the distinct pattern that we carry with us everywhere, often limits us to believe that love exists in a state of ‘need’ and often exhausts itself when needs are met.

Rarely when I do encounter beautiful, pure, elevated beings on this plane, there is a glorious moment of ‘flutter’ and ‘excitement’ within the heart. A deep feeling of intense compassion, connection and purity of love expresses itself. Interestingly, there is another internal switch that comes alive, which reminds me to only celebrate the ‘connection’ and not entangle into a ‘relationship’ with that being.

Purest love does exist in state of innocence. It radiates and persists in the innocence of a child’s smile, a smile that has no expectations or reasons for its expression, the one that mirrors a heart that is pure, placid, untouched by corrupted need to please or gain anything in exchange.

It takes tremendous shattering, ego bashing and maturity to drop the desire to possess a lover and witness the free-spirited nature to dance its way to its clarified event of divine union. Such is the state of ‘purest witness’ being alive that it allows the individual to clarify and direct all ‘intent’ and ‘actions’ to experience the magnetism of the pure connection. It also enables us to access its unique and powerful expression. The revelation of union also exposes our tremendous eternal connection that is undeniably present in the uni-chord connection to the universal grid.

Love offers immense experience of our absorbed awareness. When we are absorbed in deep state of silence, we can sense the ‘presence’ of love everywhere as romance of nature in its flow. However we are often limited by ‘absence’ of true love. This often deludes us into being indomitable “rainbow chasers”. We are often carried away by the glit and glam quotient that projects love as a showcase and accentuates our power of persuasion.

We seek true love while it keeps eluding us. We change lovers and places and experiment with ways to extract the true intensity, beauty and freshness of love. However, we are plagued by a persistent resistance within. It has seeped into our veins, memory cells, blood stream and DNA and made us weak and incomplete in our expression of love and ability to ‘give’ and ‘receive’. We often forget that we are the very embodimentof love. We were once magnetic and beautiful as babies that were showered with unconditional love. We also have been corrupted in the growing years by greed to glorify the ego which has come in the way of our innocence. Our so called intellect has to exhaust itself. The true magic of surrender has to happen. Ego has no choice but to be shattered and must explode into pure streams of love.

We humans have somehow managed to remain entangled and trapped into a messy situation. We are given ‘unconditional love’ at birth and ‘unconditional respect’ at death. Now in between birth and death, we have forgotten to honour the essence of our journey. We as souls are merely projecting a human imagery from a single atom. The soul is the projector of this imagery and its audacious drama enactment is part of the cosmic joke. We have serious lack of remembrance of our true nature, which makes us viciously spin in a maze of uncertainty.

Surprisingly, we have fallen millions of times in a predictable and repeated pattern called ‘life on earth’ by being reborn again and again. However we display immense ‘ignorance’ and defend our long drawn game of role play as a ‘one-time-event’ that is supposedly so unique and glorified.

We are pretentiously suffering from an endemic called ‘exaggerated ego’, which stands in the way of our ability to experience the purest state of love. Blessed are those beings who can experience the love as a immense ‘rising’ and not a familiar routine of ‘falling’. Falling in love is a momentary collapse of ego. In this beautiful state, our lovers and everything within and around us appear ‘magical’, ‘perfect’ and ‘blissful’. However such glorious moments are overshadowed by our expectations, desires, and priorities of our worldly sustenance. We are never completely ‘present’ in the moment to celebrate ‘love’ as is. We take pride in colouring with expressions of role play and give it an officially approved status called ‘relationship’.
We often press the repeat mode called ‘falling in love’ with many beings. Despite our ‘deep intent’ to heighten our love experience, we are trapped into a state of despair. Our actions are not in synchronicity with our intent. The internal discord ruins our genuine intent to celebrate love. This reflects in our love connections. The euphoria and excitement that seemed a huge tidal wave, tapers off. The magic wanes. We change partners, hoping that we can change the pattern. However we have forgotten to destroy the ‘resistances’,  deep seated ‘habits’ and ‘patterns’ that makes us incomplete in our expression and ability to feel and receive love.

The flame of lovers are tested by intensity of ‘control game’. Consumed and challenged by the ego battles, love soon fails to impress anymore. It is reduced to ‘lust’ and relegated to a ‘sexual release’. We have mastered our abilities to commit to ‘white lies’ and ‘false promises’ that smother our innate ability to be ‘brutally honest’ in our depth and expression of love.
Words uttered in the ‘storm’ are often forgotten in the ‘norm’. It takes tremendous courage to love despite all the odds.By being outwardly pulled and consumed by lower self traits of desire, greed, guilt, shame, fear, anger, we have dropped our human frequency to a pitiable condition. To rise in love is a victory in itself. To rediscover and sustain the magic of rising love is worthy enough of our presence on this plane.
The complexity of human behavior and traits are driven by poverty of thinking. Our education, environment and resistances have not truly enabled us to become free-spirited, powerful lovers on this plane. The space we think we occupy is often a ‘rigid’, ‘plastic’ and ‘walled territory’. We have serious issues of ‘space’ and ‘constraints’ that make us weak in our expansive ability to feel love everywhere and let it flow like a river. We are often governed by attitude that has never risen enough to overcome our temperamental traits, mood swings and inconsistencies.

A moment in anger and haste destroys a long standing love relationship. We are lawyers that staunchly defend our ideals, beliefs, and actions, and we pose as free-wheeling, autocratic judges of all others.
Once a seeker asked the great master Ramana Maharshi. I want to help others. How can i do that? Ramana in his inimitable way answered “There are no others”.  This profound statement shattered me when I realized how deeply we have been separated by illusion. We are ‘one’ that appears as ‘others’. We are distanced by an individuated reality that makes us appear so ‘disconnected’.

A few beings develop the deep seated urge to complete the journey and join the dots to the larger knowing.  Such beings do encounter the true magic of ‘universal love’. It is granted to them in deep inner silence, when thoughts no longer threaten to move the being from an absorbed knowing.

The true effect of cosmic rays passing through our sanctified instrument awakens us to the powerful love that is so intensely beautiful that it can only be expressed as an uproarious, uncontrollable laughter of the cosmic joke. The intense love is madness of the universe. We become hopeless while trying to express such love. We can dance, hop, run, fall, roll over and laugh while the madness prevails and which can’t be isolated. The source and receiver have merged into One in the celebration. It has permeated everywhere and becomes an intricate part of the design not separate from its source.
Love makes us complete in stages of revelation. It also highlights our state of being that is progressively rising into light.We are often consumed in a hunt for the physical expression of love that heightens that momentary pleasure called “orgasm”. The 20 second orgasmic window gives us an intense experience and then collapses into the limited state of the ordinary.

The science of sublimation and uprising prana and vital body fluids can enable us to heighten the orgasm in the neuron channels. Eventually we can celebrate the orgasm of the world as intense contraction and expansion in the space domains of brain. This can last for extended periods leading to intensified union within. Such orgasms are drawn from the immense creative expression power of ‘Kundalini Shakti’. We tap into the true nature of Shakti which unravels the higher possibility of the original design. Such intense paths are only for beings that are fearless and those that are ready to shatter the limitations.

Love is the essence of godliness and that which has to be extracted. It is not readily available in our casual, slippery promises that fail to penetrate the core of being. When an unconditional state of love can truly heighten itself to unleash its fullest extent of expression without ‘desires’, ‘expectations’, and ‘relationships’ it has the potential to attain its purest creative force of convergence and enter into a magnetic, glorious and eternal shiva-shakti union with the jyotirlinga (eternal pillar of light).

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Dr. Pradeep Ullal is a celebrated himalayan yogi and founder of Kevala Foundation, a celebration destination in India.