When I was 13 years old,
One day I was grooming myself in front of a mirror. My elder cousins curiously asked whom I was going to meet. I didn't understand the question. I answered, "No one," and said, "I am grooming for myself. I love to see myself graceful, like Krishna." They laughed and giggled and thought I was lying, because for them, even Krishna was decked for Gopis and Radhas, not for himself.
30 years later, one fine day, I was capturing and embracing my body and fitness through a selfie or mirror in a gym. A few people asked me the same question through their eyes with unspoken words.
I answered them the same:
Capturing and embracing your grace, in a public or private space, is the intimacy between you and your soul's public display of affection, the real PDA.
Just love and embrace yourself the way you want.
Don't feel shy and you don't need anyone's permission or consent to dissolve within yourself, in the Eternal state of Self-Love.
— SCD Balaji
