About Kiruthika
A life listening inward
Mystical tales, poems and realisations from an ordinary Kriya yogi bridging spirit and matter — honouring the divine within, whilst embracing our humanity. Healing through the integrative power of love, with consciousness as our peaceful repose.
Yogi · Mystic · Entrepreneur · Poet
A living bridge between stillness and life
I am a yogi, mystic, poet, and entrepreneur, living a quiet life with my family and dogs in Yorkshire, England.
Even as a young child, there was always a magnetic, irresistible pull towards the Divine, arising from the deep inner knowing that beneath our perceptible world lies something unspeakably vast, pure and loving. This was never a question of belief; it was a quest to remember what home truly felt like for the Soul.
Along my journey, I came to see that the divine essence can be honoured within all forms: sacred scriptures, iconography, and fully realised saints and masters each reflect an aspect of the One formless Divine — Shunya, or pure Consciousness, Reality, or God.
The wisdom of Shunya is silent and all-pervading. We can hear its secrets if we learn to listen with an open heart and a calm mind.
For me, writing and poetry have been natural ways of listening to the still; they serve to bring little embers of a blazing divine love into the feeble realm of language.
Devotion and Kriya Yoga meditation have been steady currents running through this life — an ancient, living practice through which the mind softens, the heart opens, and consciousness turns quietly toward its source. Having transformed my own life, it is something I now feel called to share, in a heart-led way, from my own inner connection to the Divine.
The first question
Who am I?
That’s a question I first started asking myself at 7 years old. It led to years of unquenchable spiritual seeking fuelled by an earnest love for the Divine. Eventually, a few core inner realisations dawned on me:
We must connect to the Divine within our own being. We all need some help and guidance along the way, but in the end the journey is ours alone to make.
Life yearns to be celebrated, not rejected or punished. Seeking the Divine does not require complete renunciation of the material world. We can learn to embrace the divinity within creation as well as the one that transcends it.
Love is the most powerful healing force there is. And if the mechanism of love were to be given a name, I would call it integration.
- Integrating all of humanity along with its messiness.
- Integrating all of life’s apparent polarities within ourselves.
- Integrating our minds with Soul, so that we don’t just know of love, but we become it.
Peace is the home of the soul; it is the foundation of all good things in life, including pure love. Happiness can be dependent on the external, and is usually transient. Where there is happiness, there can also be sadness. Such is the pendulum of life. True peace is more like the still, immovable and fertile ground that everything springs from and dissolves back into — Shunya.
The name
What is Shunya?
Shunya literally means “zero”, “nothing” or “emptiness”. In many spiritual traditions, it points to the highest level of integrated consciousness that transcends all form.
To me, this has never been a nihilistic concept. Pure Nothing is what we all truly have in common. When Nothing becomes Something, it always creates a divide, however subtle.
Shunya is creation’s parent source. Everything emanates from Shunya and merges back into it.
Some call it God or Creator; others call it Self, Nature, Pure Awareness or Consciousness. It encompasses both the potential feminine and masculine aspects of divinity.
For me, the Divine is felt as an inextricable unification of Love and Peace.
Within creation, Love manifests as many in order to enjoy the dance of life, and when the dance is finally over, everybody gets to go home.
A peek into my life
No one gets away from being human
My own childhood had its share of it: health struggles that followed me into adult life, bullying that taught me early that cruelty has no age limit, and long stretches where being told “everything will be okay” simply did not feel true.
What I can honestly say from my own journey is that darkness is real. But so is Light. So is hope, compassion, love and all the many shimmering virtues of life. They are so overwhelmingly powerful that no amount of darkness can indefinitely hold up against them. Yet, if it weren’t for the darkness, how would we even see or comprehend what light even is?
How would we grow to realise what immense light resides within each and every one of us?
If all we ever saw was white, and it refused to partake in creation, how could we enjoy the many beautiful, vibrant colours we see around us?
If nothing but light could be perceived, the little sunflower has no reason to uplift itself.
What kept me moving was a single quality I permit myself to take pride in: no matter how terrible the outer circumstances, I always found a way to keep re-opening my heart. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes after a few steps backwards. Sometimes just standing still to pause.
So this teaching is not spoken from above the trench, but from within it. I have had to meet my own darkness, heal my own wounds, and let love do its patient work on me first — and it is only from that ground that anything here is offered.
Darkness is real. But so is Light — so overwhelmingly powerful that no amount of darkness can indefinitely hold up against it.Read the full piece