Defining Love

Yes, one more ode to the ever mysterious yet the most prevalent feeling called *Love*. People of all kinds, from all walks of life have tried to define and explore Love, tried, but not succeeded. What is it about Love that we all experience it, yet we cannot find out its meaning. What is it that keeps the minds reckoning about its secrets? The feeling that all endure but yet keeping them unsure about its existence. Such playful is this feeling that tricks the mind so cunningly, leaving it boggled and baffled about its reality. Can this feeling be ever defined in totality? I am no expert or an academician to play with words and create a set of words that in turn define one. Is Love really so complex feeling that leaves all puzzled yet amazed? Let us try and explore this Mystery of all time, "What is Love??"

Love has many definitions, may be definitions outnumber the population on this planet. Each one has its own definition, which with time and situation keeps changing its shades. I wonder, what is so special about Love, that makes it so special! A feeling that sets each heart ablaze and makes the soul ooh, aah and sigh all time. A feeling that makes you fly with no wings. A feeling that tickles and makes you giggle with no reason. A feeling that leaves an individual overwhelmed and full of joy, that it asks for no other pleasure. One of the purest and highest level of emotions that rules the world, which is not a property of Man but Soul. You may keep giving the likes and whens but you never hit the spot, when you are talking about Love. What is it that makes it so abstract and vague? Let us take a couple of Love concepts that have been told since the time eternal.



People "Fall in love". If its such a pure and high feeling that peaks the peak of emotions, then why one is to be said, falling in love? May be this is because Love teaches to be humble and lose your pride. When you are in love, you lose your identity and learn to identify yourself in someone else. May be because in love, the more you give, the more you feel content. The more you lose in love, the more you gain. The greater the fall, the greater the leap of transcendental spirit towards the higher realms.

Then they say, "Love is Blind". If such is the greatness of this feeling that takes you to a higher level, how can it deprive you from seeing the realities of this world. May be Love actually returns you your lost sight. Because Love shows you no other color, once in Love, you see or give nothing but love. Is it not the way to be? May be Love makes one a dog, that can see the Rainbow. (sorry for stealing this phrase, but i really love this, and for those who don't know, dogs are color blind!)



Aah...there are so many concepts, but not an exhaustive definition! Then how do you know when you are in love? Why cant we sustain Love when we see it all around and, if it is prevalent and so beautiful and colorful? I guess its present all over, but may be it is like white light, only when it receives showers, it reveals its colors and you can see the beautiful Rainbow shine. And like Rainbow wont shine till the sunshine and showers combine, Love doesn't shine and show its true colors without two parts that complete each other. We try to define Love, our minds reckoning? Mind doesn't know the language of love. The more we try to define, the more complex it gets. Love is the simplest of all emotions. Just give, give and give and you shall get it back in abundance. The one who gives and expects nothing but the joy of the beloved, is the one who actually gets Love. Mind can never understand Love because love belongs to heart and heart knows no theories. Its is one of the basic sanskars of the Soul. How can mind reach the property of the Soul? Definitions may be many, with the widest of spectrums, colors and textures, but feeling is one, *lOvE* <3


"Love means that which lasts forever. It doesn't diminish. It always grows and grows and grows and grows. That is not love that today we feel, and tomorrow we feel we don't love them anymore. If Love comes, it never goes. If it goes, it was never love."
- Huzur Maharaj Charan Singhji

[P.S.: Images: colors of love by ~himmado, deviantart.com
+Simply love+ by ~mARTy---, deviantart.com
Love by ~tigerlily88, deviantart.com]

Sprinkling Awards

So finally with help of my blogger friend Pankhuri, atleast I gotta know some gyaan about this award thing and am now set to do this.

So now I'm all set to pass on some awards to fellow blogger friends.

First of all, would surely want to give an award to Suruchi, a dear friend that this blog gave me and a truly gr8 friend, follower, philosopher, nautanki-partner etc etc. he he( pls dont mind that sc!!;):)*I know anyways u r not!!!:))*)

So my First Blogger award goes to ~~*Suruchi*~~, for being such a fab writer with a unique wit and element of her own. What always catches my eye is that most of the posts are so naughty!!he he XD So here goes the award:::





Secondly, I would love to give awards to friends who've been gr8 followers and passing comments regularly as well as giving feed backs as and when possible. So here's to my dear friends and ardent followers, again,

~~*Suruchi*~~

and

~~*Ayu*~~






Thanks for all your support guys, no need to say, what friends and followers mean to a blogger!!^__^


And lastly I would really thank Pankhuri for making me understand this awards concept, and anyways shes such a sweet girl!!


So heres this award to u,


~~*Pankhuri*~~





P.S. I am not laying any conditions to these, as I dont wanna compel anyone to just pass on the award for the sake of it....but you can add whatever you want to it, and pls I would like to encourage you to award the deserving ones!!


Love and Peace,
Warm hugs,
Rahul

Pleasure

2B and 4B on A3 cartridge paper. A sketch after long tym. But I am not really happy with the outcome though, as I feel am really not improving. I should raise the bar now, improve with sketches and paintings I make. Gotta seriously do something for this, and cudnt even get a suitable title for this one!!

Please suggest!!

yippiee!! My art goes International!!:))

Hey guys...I got a very good news from a dear friend of mine yesterday!! HE's a musician and he said they have used my art for the leaflets and posters for an upcoming event of theirs.

I am really overwhelmed and thank my friend, Darren and all those associated with it, from the bottom of my heart. Such is the warmth of consideration that what to say!!:)
Thanks, thanks and thanks to you. That's all I can say!!:)

Love and Peace,
Rahul

(P.S. To view my friends official web site( and the poster with my art, he he!!) click here. )

Padharo:)

Hey Swati,

Welcome you to my blog :). I'm glad you liked it and hope to keep getting you comments and feed backs.

Love and Peace,
Rahul

Changing colors of Holi

"Maari pichkaari yara foorrrrrr..." he he..yup its that time of the year when colors are their splashiest best, taking their full form, ready to barge on whoever comes into their way, especially targeting the wet cholis and dupattas and saying "Bura na mano, holi hai" as pointed by a newspaper, and that too, in Bollywood ishtyle.

Its the fun-filled festival when people celebrate with colors and waters and play with maddo acts when bhang dancing on their heads and they who knows dancing where and putting and spreading hands and legs in which direction and what they do. Totally unabashed of the dos and don't s, its a care free festival, when you can do whatever you want. After all, its the celebration of the win of good over evil, as all festivals do, but with customs of its own.

And when a festival comes, no matter what, suddenly there starts a research of whats the reason of celebrating the festivals, and the dearest victims of this research are students. Just ask one to write an essay and they would come up with the story of Hiranyakashyap, Prahlad and Holika.(btw, poor students, exams always round the corner during holi time!!).Hmmmm.. So as most of you would know, I would not like to repeat the same old story and narration, rather, depict my interpretation of it and what actually Holi means. And how symbolic gestures are turned into self-convenient ways of reasoning and partying on drop of a hat.


With changing times, people change and so does the color of the society, then why shall the colors of this festival of colors not change?!!
I just woke up this morning with "dhachik dhachik dhig chag dhakchik" going on from all directions that exist, echoing with decibels high enough to murder someone. If my Dadi was alive I'm sure she would've died of heart attack today!!! Goodness, you call it Holi celebration??? Its no more than a disco party, celebrated with colors, an indianized version of disco-dallying to flirt around and a chance to get drunk in public and do as you feel like. Today's Holi celebration are synonymous with, rain-dancing, disco-dallying and getting talli to flirt around.

And all this in the name of celebrating a festival, which signifies the win of good over evil, sorry to say, but I guess the evil has already made its comeback in our form!! I am not against the celebration, but everything has its limits and ways to do. Tonnes of water wasted for rain dance, just for few hours of "Celebration" and noise pollution no less than a terrorist attack is not a "Festival celebration" yaar. Its like after raping someone, the rapist says, I was just celebrating!!!

I highly condemn this attitude of people!!

To me Holi, the day when we lit the holy fire, represents the end of the bad spirits and that's not just "Holika dahan" its the dahan of all our evil spirits that we should put into that fire and never look back. The next day is "Rang panchmi" signifying the celebration of this new birth, the new high of spirit and here doesn't mean you get talli and be high on spirits. Its when you are spiritually higher, feel light and are in bliss to celebrate. Colors signify our personalities. Each one of us is a unique color, we should learn to share and accepts each others colors and that's when we all are equal, here it doesn't mean a boss playing with colors with his peon, but the soul-consciousness, brings us to equal level as we all are nothing but souls, all equal in front of God, his children. And we need no noise to declare this, we can do it with peace or with a love-filled hug with our fellow brothers, sisters and loved-ones. Why do we need such loud noise to express happiness?? May be be because the mankind is turning deaf to the speech of real Happiness and peace. Aah,,,see, even now I can hear this song playing in the background..."Dekha jo tujhe yaar, dil mein baji guitar"!!! Duh!!!

Amidst all this, even I am feeling extremely terrible spiritually !! I wish I could be strong enough spiritually and play with this colors of Life. I wish I can really celebrate Holi. I hope with time, even the existing colors change and people know the reality, leaving behind this naive attitude and mirage of pleasure and celebration!!