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]

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Ahem...Hold on guys...for the first time in the history of my 23 years of existence, on this day, I have attempted to write a poem!! he he

And guess what, I received my first Blog Award, and that too, "Valentine Award" wow...cool...he he...thanks Ayu, made my day!! I would love to give some credit for inspiration for writing this poem too!! Here it goes,



" Winds that kissed her face
The legs that got the warm embrace

How lucky were they, he thought
That was something that he sought

There she sat facing the sea
where the sun looked like a pea

Closed were the eyes and dreams alive
Filled with love and joyous and bright

There was a wish within
If only she could see him

She opened her eyes to see around
Standing in front of her, him she found

In disbelief, she closed her eyes
He touched her face and there he sighed

She still couldnt believe he was there
Now the love was filled in the air

The moment stood still and hearts thumped
Hearts that spoke but lips were mum

He adored the beauty that she hold
Mouths were shut but everything was told

Eyes that speak and see through soul
Thats the gift that Lovers hold

They gazed and sighed for a while
Just to see a lovely smile

She closed her eyes to thank her God
Just to realize He was gone "

[P.S.- Image - Rondeau Is For Lovers by ~xkenzerx - deviantart.com]

To Pakistan, With Love:)

Excuse me for the late post actually wanted to post it on 1st Jan, but have been quite busy with some stuff...so..umm...neways...better late than never!!

I liked this initiative taken by the T.O.I. and Jung Group and hence sharing with you.

(An excerpt from The Times of India, front page, January 1, 2010, Friday)


LOVE

PAKISTAN

Feels odd to see those two words side by side doesn't it?

Terror, hatred and fanaticism somehow sit more comfortably in our minds when we think of the other side of the border.

Words that we've been fed in daily doses over the last six decades. And in greater doses over the last one year.

Shutting our minds to the undeniable truth that people across border are, above all, people. Like us.

So here's a question. Is there any chance at all, that we could still raise a hand, not in anger, but in greeting?

Depends on who raises his hand first, some of us would say. Also how, whisper a few others. But mostly it all boils down to one simple question.
Why?
Why must we do it?
Why do we need them?
Why don't they first say sorry for what they've done?
And answer is simple.

It is easier to say Hi than to say Sorry. Its shorter too. Besides, there is no rule that says a book has to be closed before a new one is opened. Not even if its a History book.

So on the first day of this new year, we are gonna make a start. Again.

With Aman ki Asha. A brave, new people-to-people initiative by the Times of India and Pakistan's Jang Group to bring the people of two fine nations closer together. Culturally, emotionally and peacefully.

Starting with a series of cross-border cultural interactions, business seminars, music and literary festivals and citizens meets that will give the bonds of humanity a chance to survive outside the battlefields of politics, terrorism and fundamentalism.

In the hope that one day, words like Pakistan, India and Love will not impossible in the same sentence.

Aman Ki Asha
An Indo-Pak peace project
THE FIRST STEP

Oh so close

2b and 4b pencils on A3 cartridge paper, the love and closeness, the connect between the two really appealed to me, coz here the closeness is not just physical, the spiritual connect is so very evident!!^__^

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2b graphite pencil on cartridge paper

My first soft charcoal work!!

This is the first time I tried something out of a soft charcoal stick. Its the quickest medium I've used, but control over it is a bit hard to achieve. It can give great effects to work, but detailing with it can be troublesome!!

And yes, not to forget, I made this picture because a friend wanted me to make a sketch of a baby as I hadn't done it before, so this dedicated to that friend!!