What Is a Twin Flame? A Personal Take| Payal Dedhia

This entry is part 17 of 17 in the series Twin Flame

What Is a Twin Flame?

Someone once asked me, “What exactly is a twin flame?” And before I could answer, they followed it up with, “Aren’t they just like siblings, born of the same womb?” I didn’t flinch. I heard her – not just the words, but something raw underneath, a curious ache. And even though I had been swimming in books, interviews, meditations, and rabbit holes about twin flames for years, her question pulled me in like it was the first time I’d heard it.

I’ve always been drawn to questions that disrupt what I think I know. Ones that rattle my worldview, not reinforce it. That’s how the truth feels – not like a comfort, but a collision. The idea of twin flames isn’t about blood or biology, not like siblings. It’s something deeper and more unsettling. Something that echoes in your chest long before you know the language for it.

A soul’s journey is lonely – that part I’ve felt in my bones. You come into the world alone, and no matter how much love surrounds you, you leave the same way. What we call relationships – family, partners, best friends – they feel eternal when we’re in them, but if you strip it down, they’re just soul contracts. Agreements made in some unseen realm. “You’ll owe me a kindness,” one soul says. “I’ll be your mother in the next life,” the other replies. “I’ll push you when you stall. I’ll leave when you get too comfortable.” And they meet again, life after life, like actors on different stages, trading roles, helping each other grow.

But then, there are these… other souls. Rarer. Restless. Like warriors who volunteer for something harder. They don’t just sign up for a contract — they agree to split. One soul, split in two, so it can experience more, feel more, and evolve faster. The universe doesn’t do this lightly. It rips the soul in half and throws both pieces into different places, different bodies, different timelines, different genders sometimes. Different everything. The only thing they share is the ache. The knowing. That feeling of something missing that starts before memory even forms.

I felt it when I was little. I didn’t have the words, but I knew I wasn’t whole. It wasn’t sadness or loneliness – it was quieter, but deeper. Like half my skin was missing. Like I was listening for someone I hadn’t met yet. Years passed. The world taught me how to survive. I built a life, learned ambition, learned how to play the game. But even when I won, it felt hollow. There was this moment – maybe you’ve had one like it – when I had everything I was supposed to want, and it all felt like sand slipping through my hands. That’s when the soul wakes up. That’s when the search begins.

The feminine part of the soul – the half that gets sent inward – she’s always more sensitive, more spiritual, more intuitive. She feels too much. She questions everything. The masculine half – he’s the doer, the chaser, the one who moves mountains without stopping to wonder why. Without her, he’s all drive and no meaning. Without him, she’s all feeling and no ground. And so they run. One runs toward achievement, the other toward truth. Neither knows what they’re looking for until the soul is ready.

They say the masculine can’t stop running until the feminine calls him home. But for her to do that, she has to wake up first. She has to stop clinging to the distractions – the career, the status, the shiny things that were never meant to fulfill her. She has to let it all go, not in theory, but for real. Strip herself of every identity the world gave her and step naked into her spiritual fire. That’s when the shift happens. That’s when she becomes light. And when she shines, he feels it – even from lifetimes away.

He slows down. For the first time, he breathes. He feels something stir in his chest that isn’t hunger for success or fear of failure. It’s love. Real, searing, ancient love. And in that moment, the two pieces remember what they are. What they were. What they’ve been chasing.

That’s what a twin flame is. Not your sibling. Not your lover. Not just someone you meet and marry and move in with. It’s the other half of your soul, walking the earth without you, aching just the same. And when you finally meet – if you’re lucky enough to – the world won’t applaud. But your soul will roar in recognition. Not because you’ve found someone else. But because, finally, you’ve found yourself.

The End. Thank you for reading.

Do check out my other articles on Twin Flames.

What If It’s All an Illusion? A Twin Flame Question That Haunts the Heart

She Thought He was Her Twin Flame: Love & Astrology Mashup

Disbelief in the Twin Flame Journey: Is it Part of the Awakening? Or Loss of Love?

Twin Flame: To all the Divine Feminine out there. Love Unconditionally

Twin Flames: The Core Truth and Why the Journey of Eternal Love is Never Easy

An Open Letter to My Twin Flame: You Were Always the One for Me, my Love, my Life

Twin Flame: It Was Never About Union, but an Acceptance of Love and the Journey

Twin Flame: Her Heart Wrenching Confession of Setting Him Free

Embracing Love: His Heartfelt Acknowledgment In The Realm of Love

A Dream Leaves My Heart Scattered, My Energy Cries

A Dream Makes My Heart Explode, My Energy Wanes

A Twin Flame Journey of Love, Pain, and Loss

Twin Flames: For love, she surrendered. She messaged him.

Twin flame: Her first glimpse of him

Twin Flames: The Birth Of Feminine Energy

Twin Flames: And they never met

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Aayansh Ahluwalia isn’t just a billionaire business tycoon—he’s the kind of man who haunts people’s nightmares. The world may recognize Scintilla Corporations as a legitimate empire, but Aayansh isn’t confined to the light. In the shadows, he commands an empire of fear, power, and blood. He rules over the underdogs, the darkness that terrifies everyone else.
Ruthless and untouchable, they call him a devil for a reason—he doesn’t flinch, doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t blink when it comes to taking lives.
His existence is fearless. His power, unmatched. Yet beneath the wealth and carnage lies a void—a darkness so complete it consumes him. There’s no light, no hope. Just emptiness stretching endlessly, leaving him hollow.
Then, one night, everything changed.
He saw her—a woman so radiant, so full of life, she made his chaos stand still. She erupted into his world like a dream, settling in his heart and claiming it as her own.
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Aayansh hadn’t been searching for her, hadn’t asked for her. But the moment he saw her, he knew—she would be his.
She didn’t belong in his world, and that only made him want her more. Her laughter, her light—it wasn’t meant to survive the darkness he thrived in, yet it pulled him in, unrelenting. Like a predator to prey, he followed. He didn’t want her to save him. No. He wanted to ruin her, piece by piece, until she belonged to him completely. He would drag her down, crown her queen in his Devil’s Paradise, and make her sit beside him on the devil’s throne while he ruled the world.

What unfolds is a story steeped in obsession, control, and desire—a dangerous game where love is a battlefield, and submission comes at the cost of a soul.
Scintilla isn’t just the name of Aayansh’s empire; it’s the pulse of this saga—a place where power thrives and morality dies.

The series is divided into four phases:

🔥 The Chase – Where the predator finds his prey. Click here to read.

The Beginning – A collision of worlds. A spark ignited.
Unveiling Paradise – Her light tempts the darkness.
The Masked Guy – Secrets wear masks. So do devils.
Unleashing the Demons – Once awakened, there’s no turning back.
The Winner – Victory tastes sweeter when claimed by force.

🔥 The Possession – Where obsession takes root. Click here to read.

New Beginning – The chase ends. The real game begins.
The Rules – Boundaries are set, only to be broken.
Gilded Cage – Possession doesn’t feel like freedom.
Unleashed Fury – When control falters, chaos reigns.
Ensnared Hearts – Hearts trapped, souls scarred.

🔥 The Submission – Where surrender is demanded, not given. Click here to read.

Her Resistance – Light fights back. Darkness pushes harder.
Her Confession – Truths whispered in the dark.
The Good Times – A fleeting calm before the storm.
The Devil Struck – The predator strikes. The angel shatters.
Angel’s Judgement – When love turns to reckoning.

🔥 The Reward – Where love and darkness collide, leaving nothing unscarred. Click here to read.

The Storm – Chaos erupts, tearing apart the fragile ties of love and power.
The Punishment – Sins are judged, debts are paid, and vengeance claims its due.
Maalik – Sneak peek into Maurya Ahluwalia’s life
The Aftermath – Amid the wreckage, the cost of darkness comes to light.
Devastation – Another peek at Akhil and Inaaya’s life.
The Dawn – Hope flickers, fragile and hesitant, in the ruins of despair.
Devil’s Endgame – It’s time for the final move. What would be the devil’s endgame?