LOVE WITHIN AND WITHOUT

Je t’aime (I love you) is an expression used across all existing relations in the world. Sometimes it forms the base of forming new relations. This is an expression used to express the intensity of connection between people. It is glue that binds people together.

God made air and god made love. He blended them well and left them to flow. Poets say “Love is in the air”. How true would it be? No sooner this question rises in the mind the answer too comes readily. How come we feel connected with someone, when the sky covers up with clouds which drizzle in harmony with the swaying breeze? It is love in the pollen that rides the swirls of the wind to reach its destination. The beautiful flower that I am connected to at this moment is the outcome of one such act.  

As I write this blog, the curtain on the window, flutters in tune with the breeze, each flutter impregnates the ambiance in the room with light fragrance of a flower just outside the window. The ebb and tide of fragrance, renders me restless, provokes me to have more. The empty flower vase lying in front of my eyes and provocation whispering in my ears “Go and get it, are working hand in glove”. The mind is agitated and fingers on the verge of reaching out to pluck it. My heart cries out “Do you love it? If yes, don’t do it.”

Love that reaches out is blissful and when responded, a symphony is struck. The flower is trying to reach out to me through its fragrance and was I responding to it or about to shatter it.

We fall prey to emotive forces. Emotion blinds us and drives us possessive. To us, flower in not a creation but merely an object to be used and thrown away. It seems this perception has extended to contemporary society too.

Money power, muscle power, authority, position is shattering (Rape, Gang rape, molestation, eve teasing, child abuse) the fair sex everywhere. Can police, can strict laws, can jail, can hanging solve this problem? Every time I switch on the news channel, the news reporter has at least one such news. Shattering happens unabated.

On Sept 16, 2013 when the supreme court of India announced it verdict in the Delhi rape case, hell broke loose on the four convicts. They chose to kill and walked the way to get killed.

At times I think, is the social fiber strengthening or weakening. The society has run dry of love, honor and respect for the fair sex. Can’t it be restored? Can’t awareness be created? Can’t it be revived?

I am hopeful; it can come back the way it has disappeared. We have in us immense capacity to love, honor and respect the fair sex, a unique creation of Almighty.

Love is to be, and feel the bliss that generates within and extends without. Love is to be, and feel the bliss that generates outside and extends within.