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PD/February/2015/7

PD/February/2015/9 “Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”

Try to Be a LoverLove is the elixir of life. It gives sustenance to life. The whole edifice of life stands on the high ground of love. Life shorn of love is no life at all. It is no better than a corpse. Love doesn’t connote anything in physical sense. It is a divine quality; those who love share the attributes of divinity. Love makes for the enlargement of the soul. It makes for the enlargement of the self. Nature knows nothing but love, since without love the whole life will be negated out of our lives. We love self. It is alright. But the moment we love others, extension of the self begins. It goes on till the entire creation comes in our embrace of love. All scriptures enjoin upon us to love our neighbours as ourselves. When we love our neighbours, our country, the world and the entire creation of Good, we lose ego and become one with the Divine. Love lends charm and beauty to life. Without love welling up in our hearts we are only insensate beings, good for nothing. So try to be a lover. Love one and all. And it is certain that all and one will love you too.

Some people believe in preach-ing to people. But we do not believeso. Who are we to tell someone howto live his life. We are just experiment-ing with a variety of solutions, hopingsome of them will work for us. Weknow one thing—never to be satisfiedwith anything we do. We believe thatthe seeker of knowledge should everremain an inquisitive student. We donot know if we are right.

With all that, we cannot helpsharing with others whatever is use-ful—of course in our eyes—we findanywhere so. Herewith we quotewhat George Cartein said in one ofhis speeches—”The paradox of ourtime in history is that we have tallerbuildings but shorter tempers, widerfree ways, but narrower viewpoints.We spend more, but have less, webuy more but enjoy less. We havebigger houses, but smaller families,more conveniences, but less time; wehave more degrees, but less sense,more knowledge but less judgement,more doctors and medicines yet morediseases and less well-being… etc.”

If we stretch a little what hasbeen stated above, we can easily saythat we live among crowds of peopleand are attached to none. We maylive together for days and months,but no love is lost between us. Weprefer or try to love God, or a friendacross the oceans, but find no time tolove our neighbour or even ourbrother. We can watch T. V. for hourstogether, but we get short of minuteswhen it comes to wipe off the tears ofsomeone lying on the road. We loveseldom and hate too often. We wantto establish peace through prepara-tions for war. We do feel elated whenour ideal men talk of co-existence as

if co-living has become somethingout-dated. Have you ever given amoment’s thought to what co-livingmeans to a civilised society ? Do youknow that enemies can co-exist by theceasefire ? Then how are we differentin case we simply co-exist under thesame roof ? Our young readers mustgive it a serious thinking, if a societycould be called civilised in whichthere is no place for living or its mem-bers believe only in co-existence ?Then friendliness, sympathy, com-passion and all that must be banishedfrom the dictionaries.

We have learnt how to make aliving but do not know how to makea life. In the words of a philosopher‘‘we have added years to life, but notlife to years. We have been all theway to the Mars, and back but havetrouble crossing the street to meet anew neighbour.” There are examplesof brothers, who live in the sametown, but do not meet for monthsbecause they have no time, while theyare easily available, if invited to a tripto overseas. We have become rathertoo self-centred. That is why we havedone larger things, but not betterones. We talk of raising standards ofliving and ignore the standards oflife, the result being that we feellonely among the crowd and astranger among our own men. Wehave seen, you too must have seen,that in social gatherings, we meet asfriends and brothers, but part asstrangers. Amitabh Bachchan, thecelebrated big ‘B’ wrote somewhere—‘‘A lot of my friends and well-wishershave gifted me rings with variousstones at different points in time. Iwear these as a mark of respect fortheir feelings.’’

Shall we try to retrace our stepsand realise the value of love andsanctity in life and our relationships ?

We talk of international brotherhood,without establishing brotherlinesswith our neighbour, or for that matter,without cherishing brotherly love toour real brother. Love is not merelyphysical gratification. It concerns thewell-being of others—at least of yourbeloved ones.

We have cleaned up the outershell, but polluted the soul. We haveconquered outer space, but lost theinnerself. As a matter of fact, theseare the days of fancier houses butbroken homes. We use sleeping pills,because we have broken hearts andover-stuffed minds. We never try tokeep in our minds the persons, whomyou are trying to push back, who willmeet you on your return journey aswell. Then you might need their help,as you would be very tired then. Butyou know this too well that there aresome persons, although their percen-tage may be very little, who do carefor the feelings of others.

Tell the people you love that youlove them at every opportunity. Thatwould leave you enough time to relaxand feel happy. Spend some timewith your loved ones because theyare not going to be around forever.Say a kind word to every person wholooks at you. That is the only treasurewhich you can give to others. Inreturn, your heart will be full of love,as nature returns back in double theamount that you give to her.

In the words of Robert Bridges(Poet Laureate)—

Love can tell and love alone+ + +

How, in spite of woe and death,Gay is life and sweet is breath.

P.Darpan