Why Kama, Our Pradyumna, Our Ancient God of Love

3/15/24

Why Magic?

Why magic?

To that I ask, why art?

Why do we love art so much?

Being sucked into a performance of song and dance and feeling the vibrations, resonating with something deep within us? Being transported to another world when you look at a masterful mural.

It’s the sense of experience. Even if not tactile, like reading a fiction book of dragons and enchanted swords.

What is it that draws us to it?

That speaks to us?

Who or what is it truly speaking to? 

When a work of art hits just the right parts of us, it transports us and transforms us. It’s as if it’s an other-worldy power, able to reach into our hearts and fling it into a Milkyway of awe and wonder. '

And if that’s not magic, I don’t know what is. 

Romance is the most wonderous forms of art, and love is the ever-unfinished, divinely designed masterpiece, only to be painted by a brush that requires two souls to use. Even if it’s just romancing a stranger, a butterfly, a vibration, or even a few mental sparks driven by words. 

Even as an unfinished work of art, love can radiate waves of romance, intoxicating all those that stand in its aura. It tugs on our hearts indiscriminately through desire, jealous, elation or adoration. 

Love crafted by the visions of artists like my Mayadevi, glows with brilliant, illuminating power.

It will lighten the darkest days and bring you to cosmic highs.

It will wrestle with our souls and illumine the celestial magic within all of us.

The hard things make sense when you truly see this.

And their power over you disintegrates when you truly have it.

And they are meaningless when you channel it.

Why then, Love and Magic?

What is magic to you?

Some say there is none. Some say that all magic and miracles are phony illusion, driven just by a lack of understanding. That it’s the opposite of “reality”, created only by foolishness. But I don’t believe those that say this truly experienced magic when it was there for them to experience.

Similar to the popular phrase, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, you cannot interact with something you don’t believe exists.

Would it be foolish to believe in something that may not exist? Or would it be even more foolish to think that you are aware of everything that may possibly exist? The brightest minds would never dream of believing in the latter.

What is magic? Are we sure it does not exist? Because magic to me,

Feels like universal power and connection

Otherworld

Mysterious

Potential to create unimaginable wonders

Reality bending power

Feels like you’re cheating, like you may one day be able to fly

Beautifying to all of our deepest senses and fulfilling our deepest desires

Personal yet universal

Mind-bending and soul-shattering

Am I not just describing art and beauty?

What then, at the very least, can make an “experience” magical, even if…

we don’t currently believe that experience itself is inherently magical.

One may describe it, with futility, as:

Exhilarating

Revitalizing

Having otherworldy sensations

Soul-expressing

Complete oneness with something more

Raw, true and pure

How tragic it is that we no longer believe in the magic that the Universe, Maya, the divine design, has exclusively for us humans.

I wonder if there are any wizards out there…

For those that are not familiar with the magic of the Universe, let’s hope that one day you are struck with one of Kama’s barbed arrows. This book will be my prayer for you as it is for me and my loved ones.

Is it delusion or truth that invite us to search for such magic. 

Crying with laughter, sorry, relief and duty when finding such a “fake presense”.

Tilting our head in the blankful bliss when we are touched by such “imaginary” feelings.

Or when we lose ourselves in an artistic, masterful execution

of a craft to reach something so impossibly imaginary.

My question then is:

To what benefit should we cling so tightly to such a pale “reality?”

What benefits us when we use science to suck out the mystery and magic

of what could otherwise be wonderful and beautiful,

as if given to us by something greater than ourselves?

Follow me in my delusion when I look to love, Kamadeva’s magic, in search for magical experience and magical power.

Is there anyone that would want to share this journey with me and my Rati, my Sailusha?

My journey so far has been intoxicating, a magical pleasure that is ever-enduring, never-fleeting unlike the fulfillment of worldly desires. A magic that can banish the demons in our soul, or banish the worst of myself from our heart-filled minds. 

What do you think we will find?

Maybe the beauty in even nothing if we are just delusioned enough. 

Let’s pray and find out.

Why, Love and Kama?

Why should we think of Kama?

Because we should see love as something magical,

as something greater than us, that can transcend us.

If we see love as only a means to an end, like a tool,

we will treat love like a tool.

Then we ask,

“why is this tool not giving me something special?”

But when we see love as a divine force,

like a divine God or Goddess, as Kama can take any form,

(Pradyumna’s spirit is for everyone that can truly devote themselves),

we will have a deep respect for it,

look for it, and study it in the same way

society reveres status and money.'

See, using love:

MLK united a nation

Vicktor Frankel helped humans defy all odds

The Taj Mahal was built

Nelson Mandela helped defeat apartheid 

The allied forces stopped the genecide of a people

And in all spiritual paths, it was the Love

that made the Creator, well…create the Universe.

Love is a force to be reckoned with and may call upon us at any time. It can create, repair and uplift anything and everything in this world.

Art is only made out of love. Which makes masterpieces the result of a romantic affair. Any connection you have is love.

The only reason you’re not a villain

is not righteousness, but your love.

Virtue does not bring love, love brings virtue. 

Love is this magical, ethereal, omnipresent magic. But we’ll never truly access this magic if we treat it with the same reverence we give to our pride or wallet or to ourselves. Compared to love, even you are nothing special.

See, it would always be better to love love, or Kamadeva,

just as much and even over, loving another.

Loving another will satisfy your heart, but loving love will grow it. 

The intoxication of love hits us when we see that we can expand into another, living or nonliving. But when not devoted to magic, that connection will spoil. Satisfying each other’s worldly desires will be pleasant, but working together to discover wonders makes our connections sing Sarasvati’s songs. 

It’s easy to dismiss the idea of the spiritual perspective, seeing that this is not the “real” world. But, we’re falling in love just to see it spoil, no?

When you see love as something that spoils, what do you think will happen to the love around you?

What if it is truly not love, our connection to the universe, that spoils, but instead our imagination?

When we see Kama, or love, in all of their glory, a few things happen:

You will naturally seek and discover the nodes of this magic in others

You will fight for him

You will chose Kama’s magic over yourself

You will play with it anytime you can

You will see that feelings come and go, but this magic, Kama himself, does not

You will find unexplainable wonder in your experiences

And it is this truth, this devotion,

this wonder, this divinity as if from the heavens

that has been sung for thousands of years.

from Kokilas, Seers, Kshatriyas

Kings, and the Divine Mothers of old.

Our Faith in Kama 

The first step to tapping into an energy trying to be understood for thousands of years, is to believe that it is there. No step can be taken before this one.

No one will ever get farming if they are unaware of the sun

You’ll never be able to fly if you don’t look up

You’ll never find virtue when you don’t believe it’s there

You will never find magic in love and connection unless you believe in it

This is not to be mistaken with a “I can do this…” or “I just need to reconnect” or “I need to appreciate more…” or anything so basic.

'

We are asking you to believe in the pure, true, un-aldurated magic, not to further bolster your ego, or the “I”. Love is in the “we.”

The magic of love can repaint every atom with uplifting color and vibration right before your eyes.

It can literally affect every particle in your existence, and make those closest to you sing in the most attractive of tones.

It can create wonders that have never been imagined before.

It can impact every single psyche on this planet at once.

If you truly believe in Kama, in all of his well-deserved glory, his wisdom will come naturally in time.

With enough devotion, he will come himself. This we must always believe.

And we must remember that the truest of love and Kama are one.

Remember, if you want to grow, you need imagination. If you want something better than your greatest imaginations, you need faith in something bigger or higher than yourself.

Again, I beseech you to at least put Kama next to your current mortal idols, whether it be Elon Musk, the next social influencer, your favorite Hollywood or Bollywood actor, whoever it may be today.

This way, when you think of the richest, most attractive, or most has-it-all-person, you can also think of Kama as someone just as important to look up to, to idolize. 

When, today, did you put yourself or something mortal and material over the magical Kama, the love stitching together our universe?

How did that work for you?

Sometimes, we think we need to change something before we love, take the leap, and open our hearts.

Be warned, however, that it is love that causes the changes and leaps, not the other way around.

You can, if you so choose, to make Kama, or love, your North Star, your compass, your judge, your eyes and your hands.

And if done so with full devotion, love will take you straight to places never imagined, doing things you’ve never imagined.

I hated writing more than 100 words at a time when I was younger, but love is making me write this.

Interesting, this love, no?

What could we be scared of? If we have a fear that love will leave us hanging out to dry, we still may not understand.

One will naturally and organically understand, that love will bolster our security, magnify our power and exact our will upon the Universe. This is love. This is Kama.

And one will exuberantly understand, that when we can wield this power, nothing can touch us or be kept away from us.

But we must be brave, always. 

We must always stand guard for our orders

We must keep our hearts open, and if we feel it close, we must kick it open with our souls

We admire and rever Kama’s touch in all things

We give Kama’s wisdom the time needed to unfold within us

We have full, unobstructed faith in Kama.

That is only if we want to discover the magic of Maya.

We may choose otherwise and still feel love’s power passively. That is the grace of Kama.

But who would we worship otherwise?

A more supreme divinely presence?

Who do you think is going to

help you get you to them?

Or would we rather worship ourselves?

But then I ask, for what ultimate purpose

if not for love?