A sea, Two boats and a heart of gold!

In every realm, in every kingdom… new or old!
There lives a sea, two boats and a heart of gold.

The fate of boat is set by the act of the sea.
The Heart of gold, however stands watching the journey.

With the ebbs and the flow
The heart forgets to know
That without even touching the sea
It has become a part of their destiny.

Now the sea looked at the heart of gold with a smile.
It said, just like the way you get moved by me and the boat, for a while
There are very many hearts that get moved by what you do
Without any talk, meet and sometimes just without even knowing you!

So now as you know this, make your heart always shine
Make all the journeys easier be it theirs, be it mine!

To love or not to love

So, this morning I feel an urging need to write down something here that’s about love relationships. For the past sometime, I have been seeing some of my really loving, confident and honest friends publish posts that talk depressingly about love relationships, which portray a bitter picture of being in love. To this I have a few things to say…

*Love is a mysterious thing, you will not understand the how, what and why of it most of the times!

*However mysterious it is, it is one of the simplest and subtlest of all emotions that any living being can comprehend. Therefore you will surely end up falling in love with someone, because it comes naturally to you and everyone else!

*What we forget (when in love) is that if you love someone, it never is a rule to have it reciprocated. But when we are in love, we mostly, make an effort to make the person who we are in love with fall for us!

*When in a relationship someone says an ‘I love you’…it mostly means an ‘I love you’ ONLY. Understanding hidden meanings behind the 3 golden words complicates stuff…. An ‘I Love You’ rarely depicts a commitment for marriage…but we assume!

*I have also seen quite a lot of people say… “I have wasted so many years with him/her, just to get dumped”. Guys can you please explain what happened to your head in those years that you were ‘wasting’ with them, those exact years that you now feel wasted were once termed as ‘Golden’? Please explain…not to me…to yourself!

*Wanting to get married to the person you love is very natural to most people, but when it does not materialize please understand that there are hundreds of reasons that come into picture. When you love a certain person, all his/her cute and sweet habits are for you to see only for a few hours. Marriage is about seeing each other and their behaviour almost all the wake hours of your life and that is a big game changer for the decision making! Those who cannot agree for marriage are not cowards or cheats all the time.

*It is only marriage and love relationships in which there is a scope of breach, because we as a society have created the scope. Meaning, when you are angry or not in good terms with your mother, father, sister, brother…you don’t divorce them or dump them for the fact that there is no such provision. But it’s only for marriage and similar relationships that we make brave moves like dump, ditch and divorce…Wow! the 3-Ds! Why can’t we just expand our perspective?

*I agree that many of us put in a lot of effort in their relationships to make it happier and with due respect to every such person I would like to say that we must all agree to accept that there sometimes are some higher things in life that govern our relationships (that we may not understand, due to our limited knowledge of the universe) and we ought to leave them that way!

* Making a slur of our past relationships only worries us more. We must stop feeling victimized and understand that sadness, guilt, betrayal and all such negative emotions are essential for our lives to function. For, without them, we would never be able to figure out joy, happiness and mania. Remember, for every yin there is a yang! But like we can’t party every day, we can’t sulk every day too!

**NOT-SO-DISCLAIMER: Just in case you thought I was doling out all this gyaan without any personal experience, I would like to let you know that I have had enough of what it takes to write all of this and I am still waiting to live more, learn more!

Closing with a Rumi quote: “Whatever you know or you don't...Only love is real!”

Love will stay supreme!

Nirupama

कपि से उरिन हम नाहीं!

भरत भाई.... कपि से उरिन हम नाहीं!

सौ योजन, मर्याद समुद्र की

ये कूदी गयो छन माहीं

लंका जारी, सिया सुधि लायो

पर गर्व नहीं मन माहीं….

A 7 minute and 20 seconds long song with a vivid description of events that date back to several hundred years…this is a conversation between two brothers Ram and Bharat talking to each other about a soul-brother Hanuman.

After completing his 14-year exile when Shri Ram comes back home, he has tales to tell his younger brother Bharat of the events that occurred during his stay away from home. This song in particular describes how Shri Hanuman was available almost all the time for Shri Ram whenever he needed him.

Quoting a few incidents during this period, Ram ji explains that he can never be debt-free from the selfless support that Kapi (Hanuman) extended to him in the most scarce times. From crossing hundred miles across the ocean to bringing down the Lanka to find the whereabouts of Maa Seeta, Hanuman was there in spirit and letter of all the things that were written in the destiny of his service.The tunes of this song will only tell you of the humility that Hanuman never held, but always held it high!

There is a Hanuman in each of us and then there is a Ram also. What we need to make sure is to keep them synchronized from time to time.

In esoteric terms the Mind is Ram and the heart is Hanuman!

Jai Shri Ram! Jai Hanuman!

Frozen...The movie!

It's always a tough thing for me to get motivated to watch a movie. I am no movie buff, I am not even close to being a fan of any actor/actress in particular. It is mostly the philosophies, or songs or some times even a few one-liner dialogues that I watch in the trailers, that get me to watch a movie.

Something similar happened with the movie 'Frozen'!

Today, as I surfed through the pages of my Facebook account, I chanced upon an adorable video that has a gorgeous mother and an adorable daughter singing this lovely song..."Love is an open door"! I hadn't listened to this song until this time, and the beauty of this video got me searching for this song on the internet, so that I could hum it once I am done watching it! And here it is from the movie 'Frozen'!

I quickly check my movies folder and yes! I have Frozen lying in there!

A long and graceful film it is with some adorable songs and the opening music of the film is very engaging. What caught all my attention was the bonding between the sisters Elsa and Anna. I am so taken away with the feeling of love being universal. With variations in cultures, sisters love each other just the way sisters should and this film depicts it magnificently! One of the lines of this movie is heart touching and I would like to share that with you...

Anna(Li'l sister for her elder sister): She's my sister, She'd never hurt me!

It is with this that the entire movie began to grow on me and I was so doubly sure that sisters can never fall apart. No powers of freezing can beat the warmth of love that a sister's heart bears for another!

Absolutely a beautiful film with a graceful end depicting 'true love'!!!

Don't forget to listen to the song.. 'Love is an open door'...once more!!! :)

Priceless love for my sister!

Nirupama