Advaita Meditation: The Secret Of Shiva - Shakti And Love

Love isn’t between two things. In nonduality, Shiva (pure awareness) and Shakti (its alive display) are one reality. In this live meditation (13 Sept 2025), we relax the seeker and rest as I-Am - seeing love as Being itself, not a passing emotion.

What you’ll experience:

- A gentle return to I-Am-ness (awareness prior to thought)

- Seeing how body - mind - world are the play of one presence

- Letting “love” shift from feeling about objects to the unity of seer & seen

- Practical pointers to live this in relationships, work, and daily life

Transcript

So,

As always,

Feel free to be completely relaxed and if that feels like lying down for you today,

Feel free to do that,

Feel free to recline,

But it is better always to sit up and listen and as you do that,

You could ensure that your back is straight,

That your arms are parallel,

That your feet are evenly placed on floor,

That there is stability and that things are even,

Body is even in a parallel plane,

But you have to ensure that there is rest in the body,

That there is no stiffness in the body and you will see that slowly and surely your body will help you to maintain the balance equanimity and if there is any sense of anticipation as to what's next or if there is an impulse in mind to skip something,

Be mindful of that and become at ease with your presence,

With your own presence.

Meditation is never about an object,

It's never about my words or anybody's words,

It is always about your presence.

Let's see how easily you let go of that presence in the interest of other objects.

So prioritise your own presence and as you prioritise your own presence,

Bring your awareness to your breath and as you breathe out,

See if your breathe out is slightly longer than your breathe in.

So if you breathe in for the count of four,

Breathe out for the count of six and do that for five cycles,

That your body is resting,

Your breath is natural and normal,

That there is sense of presence and that you are more in a domain of your own awareness and that you are aware that you are in a domain of your own awareness.

I said before that you are aware that you are in a domain of your own awareness and if you are not aware of the fact that you are never outside of your awareness,

The fact doesn't change,

The fact remains that you are always in a domain of your awareness,

You never for a second step out of your awareness.

Even in your deepest depression,

You are aware of the depression,

The sadness and even in your most joyful event,

Experience,

You are aware of it.

You are never outside of your awareness.

You can go to the distant galaxy,

The experience of that would also be taking place in your awareness.

So you would never be ever outside of your awareness but becoming aware that you are in awareness and situated in your presence is altogether a different experiential feeling.

Different experiential understanding and for many of you who have been meditating with me for long,

You know what I am referring to.

Experientially knowing something is very different than just information or just what we call casually knowing.

So continue to be in this relaxed posture and now bring a gentle smile on your face,

The smile that tells you that you are home.

The smile that tells you that you are experiencing your own miracle.

You are right in the middle of the life,

Right in the middle of the universe,

Right in the middle of the truth.

Elevate the value of your experience.

This is not a special experience.

This is the experience that we all share but very few of us have this feeling,

Understanding of the value of this experience.

And now that you understand the value of this current,

Present experience,

There is smile on your face that is natural,

That is spontaneous,

That is real.

The smile that tells you that you are home,

The smile of joyfulness,

The smile of peace and easiness that you are letting go of all your efforts.

You are letting go of all your resistance and if you are honest and if you ask the question what is wrong with this presence,

This very presence,

You would struggle to find an answer.

There is nothing that can be wrong in this current presence and that is why there is no resistance.

Not having resistance to this presence is natural.

Now in this presence a thought can come and try to convince you that there is A,

B and C that may be wrong.

For example,

I am not feeling well or my body is aching today or there is something going on in my life but essentially your presence as you are is not resisting any of it.

This is not to diminish the problems or sufferings but first and foremost we are assigning a current value to our presence,

The correct value to our presence.

And from that perspective we are seeing the world,

We are living the life and we are evaluating our default positions and resistance.

You are doing what a wise seeker,

A disciplined monk would do and again there is no effort.

Even the smile on your face is not an effort because it's natural.

Smiling face is a natural face.

It is when you are thinking,

Resisting,

Your face is not smiling.

So let go and remain firmly aware of the presence right in the heart of all the things that there are.

You are right in the heart of all the things that there are.

The life of all the things that there are.

All your experiences come alive because of this presence.

Upgrade your understanding of your own presence,

Of this presence.

Allow all the thoughts,

Narratives to serve this presence.

And if you have to train your mind and yourself to do that,

Then do that.

But you will find that after a while or as soon as you let go of your effort,

So it may not even take a while,

Your thoughts and your narratives are already in service of this presence.

In fact,

All your trials and tribulations were in a quest for this presence.

They were looking for resolution.

And the resolution is abiding in this presence.

Knowing the correct value of this presence and then living your life from the perspective of this presence.

That is all that there is in all spiritual wisdom traditions.

But one could take 100 years to come to this.

Or one could take a fraction of a moment to come to this.

So smile and be this.

Remain aware of this.

Abide in this.

Smile as this.

Love as this.

This is not different for you and for me.

This is same.

It has you and it has me.

You don't have this or I don't have this.

This is not the play of words.

There could only be one infinite.

And the awareness that we share is that.

Is that infinite presence.

That feels like localized in you and localized in me.

And loving the play of this localized awareness.

Is now all you have to do now that you have known the play.

So continue to smile.

Continue to enjoy the play.

And see that no effort is needed.

Playfully playing like a child without an effort.

Where all your experiences are integrated in your play.

As the play.

Nothing is out of it.

Nothing is excluded.

Your best thoughts and experiences.

And your worst thoughts and experiences.

Are equally the part of this play.

And see that you're having the direct experience of knowing this intimately.

And this is called knowing understanding.

Or feeling understanding.

This is where you get it.

And then you will use thousands of words to explain it.

Explain what is inexplicable.

So continue to smile and continue to abide as this.

Now as you are firmly rooted in this presence.

Say the word in your mind low.

Say the word in your mind low.

With that smile.

Become aware of the word low.

The word low.

That you experienced as you thought about it.

Was that experience different from low itself?

The low that you know and feel.

Was it not the word low itself?

So was the word and the referent two different things?

Or were they just one experience?

The experience of saying low.

And the low experience are same.

Did you notice that how mind can separate.

Try to separate out one experience into two.

Not even a fraction of a second it will take to separate oneness into two.

And then the whole world will arise.

The whole multiplicity and diversity of the world.

Say the word low.

And see that the thought that said the word low.

Is low.

And the low.

Was never divided into two.

The whole experience was low.

It is very easy to divide.

Divide the oneness that you feel in your heart into two separate objects.

Whereas the word was low,

The low was low.

The lover was low.

The speaker was low.

And the listener was low.

Has always been.

And will always be.

But did you notice that how easy it is.

For the duality.

To come rushing into all of your experiences.

In a most subtle way.

And that is the play.

The duality makes the whole world appear.

As separate from you.

As something different,

Aloof from you.

Whereas in reality the whole play was you.

Has always been you.

Hindus describe this beautifully.

And I am sure all other cultures have synonymous concepts that I am not aware of.

But this is what I know of this Hindu metaphor.

Of Shiv and Shakti.

Shiv is the pure awareness.

And Shakti is the play of duality that the Shiv himself plays.

In order to manifest the whole universe.

We don't know which one is Shakti and which one is Shiv.

They are not separatable.

But they are always one.

Shiv makes Shakti appear.

And because of Shakti we know Shiv.

The duality helps you to understand the singularity,

The oneness.

And it is because of the oneness the whole world of duality is.

This is the secret of all secrets.

One could take thousands of years.

To understand this,

To play in this,

To love this or to resist this.

And Shiv allows you all the Shaktis to do whatever you like with this.

You can resist thousand years or you can love for thousand years.

It is your freedom.

It is the Shiv's freedom itself.

It is the oneness localized in you.

In a perfect manner.

That is now known to you.

And now that it is known to you.

All you can do is smile.

Effortlessly smile.

Smile at your helplessness that you can't divide them,

The Shiv and Shakti.

And smile that it is fortunate that you can't divide the Shiv and Shakti.

And smile that you are that Shiv and Shakti.

How beautiful,

How natural,

How effortless this is.

Shiv and Shakti knowing their own play.

Displaying their own play.

And enjoying their own play.

Playfully and lovefully.

And may you soak and marinate in this knowing,

Understanding,

Filling understanding.

And may this be coded in all cells of your body.

All thoughts of your mind.

All sensations of your body.

May the word love,

When you utter next time,

Is never separate from the word and the meaning of love itself.

May they be always one for you.

May they be always one for everyone.

Allow the Shiv and Shakti to remain one in your direct understanding of it.

And knowing the truth and becoming truly comfortable with it is the pathway to wisdom.

And knowing the play of Shiv and Shakti is truly the final milestone.

And this milestone is not a destination.

It doesn't mark the end of your journey.

It marks the beginning of your journey.

Into eternity.

Into infinite.

No matter how far you go and how long you go.

The reality would always feel like this presence.

Always peaceful and full of love without division.

Do not go looking for an extraordinary experience that our culture calls enlightenment.

There are no bells and whistles.

But there will always be this presence.

One for all of us at the same time.

So let go of all your efforts and resistance.

And now just be this.

Just abide as this.

With me and with you and me and all of us.

All as one in presence.

How nice.

How nice of you to be present in this live meditation.

Where I could speak of this first time with you.

How nice.

And I am very grateful for your presence.

For your loving understanding.

The privilege was mine.

And I thank you again.

With the hope to see you again in this oneness next week.

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