A new chapter is unfolding into my life right now. It is fresh, exciting, and filled with great promise. I feel a new balance struck within, between pure freedom and grounded action, between Brahmacharya and unlimited play. I am seeing them anew as sides of the same coin. Neither competing nor vying for superiority over the other, but benefiting each other as equals in a play of mutual interdependence.

To see any woman as mother first, and worship her as such, allows a space of play and even intimacy that is free of attachment, and deeply healing. Lead with Brahmacharya, then let it build, let it subside, the bhav is still there and you can bask in it for hours.

Grounded action creates a framework. It builds houses. It makes calls and secures rental agreements, starts companies and leaves things more organized than it found them. But it’s only a part of life. The need for some structured action isn’t a call to turn the lights on, shut the music off, and kick everybody out. It can be woven in, engaged in peacefully as a part of the divine play which we, humanity, are engaged in.

Ultimately, the convergence of these opposites is where the magic lies. It is said that realized beings, after the initial event, take about ten years to stabilize and integrate their realization. It takes this long for them to re-figure out how to live life. This is because the classical philosophies and methods intended to inspire Truth realization say nothing about how to live life from that place.

Tantra, the uniting of all opposites, is the practice of bringing these things together. Action-for-enjoyment and action-for-results ultimately resolve and collapse into the play of action-for-itself. Brahmacharya and sensual liberation resolve into an erotic innocence, unfolding from a space of safety and completeness into a realm of greater possibility than any seeking, grasping tactics ever could.

Brahmacharya actually means “on the path of Brahman” or “focused on Brahman.” That is all it means. It is, in fact, not an injunction against sex. It means that one is centered upon God in every moment within the play of life, including in intimacy, so that simultaneously anything is possible, and yet nothing is needed. Nothing is desired, nothing withheld, and so balance is found and the vibrational field becomes coherent. This is the “afterglow” associated with genuinely intimate sex, but you don’t have to have sex to achieve it.

This kind of harmony is a part of life that is becoming greater and greater in amplitude within mine, and I could not be more grateful. A harmonized and harmonizing frequency that can leap from one person to another like wildfire.