The Presence of Love

By Acharya Tadany.
Morning Meditation.
Pune, 6 April 2026.

Love-making happens only because Love is already there.
It is like the silent ocean finding its voice in the wave.

However, without the primordial feeling,
The movement would never arise,
For a shadow cannot exist without the Light that casts it.

What the world sees as two,
The quiet pulse of Love and the outward dance of its expression
Is, for me, a single, indivisible Truth.

Just as the heat is not “added” to the fire,
The act is not “added” to the feeling,
It is the feeling made visible.

So, where the heart is hollow and Love is absent,
The “making” is but a ghost in the machine.
It is a rhythmic mimicry,
A hollow ritual,
A mechanical repetition in the dungeon of vanity.

For, without the spark, the lamp is merely a cold clay,

And, without Love, the act is merely a body in motion,
Forgetting that it was meant to be a soul in flight.

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