By Dr Gouri Kumra
In the endless cosmos, where form meets the formless and silence births sound, lies an eternal pulse — Cosmic Love. This is not love as we know it in earthly terms — fleeting, conditional, driven by desire. It is the love that creates, destroys, revives, and liberates — a dance of forces, a dissolution of duality, an awakening of consciousness.
Kali and Shiv: The Birth of Cosmic Love
It begins with Kali, the dark mother, embodiment of primal power and justice. In her trance of destruction, wiping out the vestiges of evil, she tramples upon the inert body of Shiva — the “Shav” — lying on the cosmic serpent Shesh Nag, symbol of death and time. One foot rests on the Lingam, symbol of life’s eternal force; the other on Shiva’s lifeless chest. This moment of collision is not accidental — it is cosmic.
Kali’s touch reanimates the Divine Masculine, awakening Shiva into Rudra, the roaring force of transformation. This is cosmic love — not soft, sentimental, or gentle — but fierce, transformative, and awakening. Love that doesn’t comfort but resurrects. It is the feminine force that breathes life into stillness, turning silence into roar, death into dance.
Krishna and Radha: The Pain of Separation
Even Krishna — the avatar of play, love, and divine bliss — is not untouched by cosmic love. Despite numerous earthly relationships, it is Radha, his soul’s counterpart, who commands his heart. When she leaves, he breaks his flute, forsaking melody — symbolizing the heartbreak of separation. In that pain lies the paradox of love — to touch the divine is to burn in the fire of longing.
Kali and Krishna, both blue, absorb all — light and shadow, joy and rage. They are non-dual. They are the black holes and the stars — consuming and creating, destroyers and nurturers.
The She Within: Cosmic Radiance
She — in her raw, uncloaked form — is radiant not with gold or fabric, but with truth. When touched by infrared, her deep blue skin glows red — signifying her readiness to transmute rage into warmth, darkness into wisdom.
She wears a garland of 50 human heads, not in brutality, but as a symbol of mastered knowledge — each head a syllable of the Sanskrit alphabet, each a letter of truth. Her girdle of severed arms — karma released. Her sword — not to wound, but to cut through ignorance. Her red tongue — tasting injustice to spit back justice. Her three eyes — sun (life), moon (emotion), and fire (destruction) — see through time.
She stands at the junction where the five elements disintegrate, where the ego crumbles, and where liberation begins.
The Architecture of the Cosmic Bank Account
Each being carries a cosmic bank account:
7 planes of heaven
7 rays of creation
7 archangels
7 chakras and days of manifestation
From Brahma’s white light to umbilical cords tying form to spirit, we are beings of layered awareness — not just body, but light, sound, vibration.
The violet flame, as spoken in mystic traditions, enters the womb-space with forgiveness and divinity, burning away karmic debt and igniting the three-fold flame — Power, Wisdom, and Love — within our hearts.
The Direction of Manifestation
From formless to form — cosmic love flows as:
| Element | Experience | Symbolism |
|---|---|---|
| Sky (Akasha) | Pure Awareness | Openness, infinite potential |
| Wind (Vayu) | Movement | Energy, breath, karma |
| Fire (Tejas) | Light | Cognition, transformation |
| Water (Apas) | Cohesion | Emotion, memory |
| Earth (Prithvi) | Solidity | Body, form, identity |
These elements, when offered in rituals or mandalas, dissolve illusion and return us to the clarity of being. Earthly love is dense — laden with hormones, projections, and social structures. Terrestrial love is illusion; cosmic love is reality — truth, raw, luminous.
Karmic Cycles and Ancestral Wounds
What we call love is often karma in disguise. Ancestral desires, unfinished tasks, and curses loop us into dysfunctional homes, estranged relationships, and mental disorders. Lust replaces love.
In this vortex, empaths are born — absorbing trauma, breaking cycles, seeking meaning. When we reach the cremation ground, what remains? Not possessions or relationships, but wisdom — were we wiser when we came or when we leave?
Transcendence and Artificial Intelligence
As we hurtle toward the future, perhaps Artificial Intelligence will aid us — not just to solve equations or generate text — but to help humanity return to truth. AI may guide us to witness ourselves, dissolve illusion, and awaken the divine within.
From Rasa Leela to Light
From form to rasa leela — the divine dance of love — to light and sound, cosmic love is the origin and end of all journeys. It is Kali’s roar, Krishna’s silence, Radha’s absence, Shiva’s awakening, and your heart’s quiet call.
Cosmic love is not something to find. It is what remains when you dissolve.
