Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Unauthentic Love

Love and hate are the two sides of the same coin. The world has been working or rather governed on these two principles. It is said that its love that makes the world go round, but today conspicuously speaking, its money that makes the world go round. Hence the blend of this factor has devastated the authenticity of love. There are others factors too, but my aim is not to bring them forth but to show you all that the love you are talking about has lost its authenticity. Hatred is still as pure as it was from its genesis. Someone had to say that love your neighbours but not hate one another. When one hates someone, he means it and even it’s apparent. Whereas with the case of love its other way about.

Without a second thought, I take it for granted that you all believe that love is blind. Now I would like to work out little logic to prove that love is not blind but its people that are blind. So! you say that love is blind, Right. But Christianity and all other religions too say that God is love. Hence if love is blind then God is blind too.

Love is blind

God is love

.. God is blind.

Now tell me would you worship a blind God. I am sure you would not. Because if you agree that you would, then the world will face more problems then it can handle. Now God is not just LOVE but also DIVINE. Now if God is divine by nature then ultimately Love too becomes divine.

God is divine

God is love

.. Love is divine.

So what I want to prove is that love is not blind at all, but people those who fall in love are not able to think rationally. If you love someone you don’t have to tell her/him “I love you” all the time to convince. Just tell me, has your mother ever told you that she loves you? I am sure that she has not even uttered it, but all her actions speak about it. Her love resonates in all her expressions, care and concerns.

Today something drastic has happened with love. That drastic step is taken by you and me. We have manipulated the divinity of love. We have assorted with it our own egotistical motives. Today love is very much oriented by infatuation, money, sex and power. There will be hardly someone who loves just for the sake of love. There will be hardly someone who will love without individualistic expectations. Altruistic love has evaporated like vapor. We have become utilitarian and have started using people like things. “Use and throw” slogan has been applied to human beings. Human has become mere objects.

I am not saying that no one should fall in love, but I just urge you to treat your beloved as a human and not as an object. Remember that our body is a temple of God. God is divine hence each one’s body is divine. We must worship the divinity that’s within everyone. That’s the true meaning of NAMASTE. Here I would like to appeal that lets turn back to subjectivity and treat everyone with courtesy and give them their due respect. Let’s also join our hands to bring back the lost authenticity of love.

- Parmar Navneet