Love me not for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart,-
For those who fail, or turn to ill,
So thou and i shall sever:
Keep therefore a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why
So hast thou the same reason still
To dote upon ever n ever!!!!
So what is love-the chemistry that works when you see ur mate? or maybe the affection u shower on ur parents n children? or perhaps it is the warmth u fel for ur friends n neighbours? but all these forms of love r specific-limited by space n time. this limited love is vain n can desert us at a moment's notice.
The only way to love is to love without limiting our reasons. the only emotion that really rules our life is love-either in its positive aspect or in its negative aspect as hatred for even to hate somebody u need to be involved with that individual! the only way to lead ur life into light is by "loving without looking for reasons".
So the problem that most of face is the problem of identity...! do i see myself as a hindu or a christian? am i an indian or a pakistani? does the river belong to the ppl of karnatake or tamil nadu? we even face this identity crisis in our daily lives. in this process of tryin to identify ourselves, we begin to limit ourselves, compartmentalising ourselves in the name of freedom n independence. we dont realise that love is an expanding circle that is capable of engulfing this entire universe! u dont have to take away the love from ur mother to love ur mother-in-law.
if our left hand is bleeding, would our riht hand wait for the left hand to ask for assistance? do our body parts need to ask for something before it is given? yet y do we insist on waiting for ppl to beg us for forgiveness before granting them pardon? wouldnt the quality of our forgiveness greatly enhanced if it were given without asking? wont our love surely be pure by the mere fact that it was given without expecting anything in return? after all, whom r v forgiving? whom r v loving? our own selves!
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U never told me u r a poetess also..Good One...Holds a deeper meaning...So are u in the process of making a great writer someday....All the best....
amit the poem wasnt mine....actually read it some where n was impressed..so guess could built the blog on the poem
I would like to differ with u a little bit. It looks very nice to read that ‘don’t limit your love to reasons’ … but practically seeing, it’s a little bit difficult. V r leading a life of normal human beings and not that of an anglic kind or the mahathma species where u wana love a person for no reason. I guess v or rather I will end up getting too confused. I guess it makes more sense when u say don’t hate a person because of his identity like pakistani or north Indians and stuffs like that. Let me tell u one thing… its quite difficult not to hate somebody when that somebody unknowingly tries too hard to make u hate them and its quite difficult to the power of 100 for u to love somebody even…even if that somebody is gona b ‘everybody loves him/her’ kind. So to b simple… love and hate people… b human.
aahaa.....my dear anonymus reader...
though its not necessary to be the angelic kinds it is also not wrong to make an effort n though its not easy to practice, it is infinitely peaceful after the difficulty
i really liked the way u thought n taught about love....very intersting.....both the blog n the blogger...wanna know more!
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