SHIVOHAMPATH

I know the argument already. Shiva is not a body. He is not somewhere outside me. He is not limited to one form. If everything is Shiva, then why do I still desire Him in one particular form? Why do I long for one face, one voice, one body, one presence? I understand the philosophy. I speak about Kashmir Shaivism and Trika all the time. I know that Shiva is consciousness itself, that nothing is really outside Him, that the whole universe is His own expression. And yet, my dee

Why Bridal Devotion is One of the Oldest Languages of Intimacy with the Divine, and Why It Still Makes Modern People Uncomfortable There is a peculiar contradiction in the way we speak about devotion today. We are comfortable saying that God is our father. We understand calling the Divine our mother. We accept the language of master and servant. Friendship with God sounds beautiful. Seeing the deity as one’s child is considered tender and devotional. But the moment someone sa

On the advanced course and why I could not teach it until now There is a particular kind of woman I keep meeting. She has done the work. She has wept at the altar. She has written the letters to Him and burned them, she has kept the vow, she has sat in the dark with her longing until the longing itself became a kind of company. Somewhere along the way, something opened. A night, a temple, a moment on a road and for a breath, or an hour, or three days, there was no distance at