Once again this inexpressible
emotion knocked me down and upon recovering consciousness gently nudged me to
make one more attempt in expressing its beauty and vastness.
I have always wondered about the
many layers of this deep emotion to the point of believing in the saying- “Love
is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.” It is the pure, unadulterated,
unconditional love bordering on the lines of devotion that has always caught my
fancy. When someone says ‘I love you’; who is I and who is you? See deeply and
wouldn’t it be evident that the divinity in ‘I’ loves the divinity in ‘you’?
Doesn’t the Divine love himself here? He
only makes it look different in the form of two people loving each other. Most
of us cling to the outer forms, but it’s the core that intrigues me. When I
discard the outer and talk about the core, I am termed hypocritical and rather
impractical. J
I don’t blame the world either
because making sense of this emotion can make people seem loopy. I’d rather be
termed impractical than refrain myself from seeing the immeasurable beauty that
love entails. I am not against the ‘romantic love’ that most people feel and
look for in their ‘soulmate’ rather I am a hopeless romantic and did I say
impractical in worldly parlance? ;)
Come to think of it, isn’t everyone looking
for that unconditional loving space when one can just be? When meeting the
other person or even thinking about them is a source of nourishment to the
soul? Don’t all of us seek to either feel complete or share our completeness
with someone? Isn’t true love which we shamelessly gush about in books and
movies border on the line of a lover’s devotion to their beloved? What is love
if not divine, the core that we all are?
Devotion is the highest form of
love; but why loving a person unconditionally in the worldly parlance earns
someone a ‘tag’ of Meera Bai? Why can’t some ‘earthly person’ trigger the same
level of devotion in someone; why can’t it be felt for the God within than just
for the God at the places of worship? Why people mock love if it goes beyond
their limited understanding and belief that it is only a worldly emotion? How
limiting is that; an insult to love! Why can’t love just be? Why we only like to
praise the divine love of Radha- Krishna and not even dare to explore that love
ourselves? Why someone who loves God in this modern age of need and lust need
to hide his/her love and longing for the fear of being ridiculed or worse,
misunderstood? Why can’t it be seen as someone’s only life purpose? Accept it
or not, each of us is doing just that; we are only too scared and rigid in accepting it as it is.
This song from the movie 'Khamoshi' has been my perennial favourite; couldn't put it more soulfully myself.
Love Always!
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