Humne Dekhi Hai

‘Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks the head, the heart, and the senses simultaneously.’ – Lao Tzu.

The world exists in Duality… Dark & Light, Good & Bad, Black & White, Male & Female, New & Old, Ying & Yang, etc.

Everything in a person’s life starts as one. As their intelligence develops, they begin to distinguish between things while preserving a sense of balance.

The only way to keep the balance is to be one with everyone and everything.

Being in Love is a way of being one with the universe.

Love is an ethereal idea, a unifying force that brings people together. Nothing is more enigmatic than Love, which plays an irresistible and enormous role in our lives.

Love can remain a solely physical phenomenon emerging from our sensual desires, or it can develop into its highest form, which is a deep spiritual relationship.

Though many people have attempted to analyze the irrational concept of Love, it remains in the realms of unexplainable. Love is prevalent in our literature, songs, films, novels, and other works of art. One such song, which analyses the most fantastic form of Love, is a masterpiece by Gulzar, ‘Humne Dekhi unn ankhon ki mehekti khushboo…’

Love moves progressively. It starts with the senses, then moves on to the physical body, and finally to the most refined level of being in oneness. It takes on a pure and sacred nature as it transcends all physical boundaries and remains untouched by the physical form.

That Love is oneness, as Aristotle described it: “Love is made up of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.“

“I’d like to see you, hear what you’re saying, feel the warmth of your fingertips, smell your scent,” But if I am in oneness, I can experience all these even when you are not around.

That is the ‘I am you‘ state, where senses are regulated by the soul rather than the other way around, where the feelings associated with the senses do not exist. The senses do not rule.

Your eyes are said to reflect your inner feelings. The eyes of an individual in Love are always bright and filled with the inner calm that comes from Love. Those eyes tend to have a distinct fragrance, sensed only by those in Love.

humne dekhi hain un aankhon ki mahakti khushbu

hath se chhuke ise rishto ka ilzaam na do

sirf ehsaas hain ye ruh se mahsus karo

pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koyi naam na do

Gulzar has blended the senses of smell and vision in a brilliantly imaginative manner to create an amazingly surreal feeling. After all, the sense of smell is said to have the best memory of the five senses.

This soul-to-soul bond is so pure and sacred that labeling it something other than Love would only taint it. It’s all about pure Love, which can only exist between two souls. Even just a touch or a glance can ruin it, spoil it. Senses and the pleasures that they bring have no place there.

Any other relationship will bring it into the domain of physical duality. There will no longer be an ‘oneness’ and unity. Will exist only self, and others. The bond between them will be tainted. To find oneness, one must look beyond the senses, beyond Duality.

pyar koi bol nahi, pyar awaaz nahi

ek khamoshi hai, sunti hain kaha karti hai

na ye bujhti hai, na rukti hain, na thehri hai kahin

nur ki boond hain sadiyon se baha karti hai

Is it true that Love begins with the words “I love you”?

No, it’s not true.

Love exists even before this sentence is uttered. Saying these “three magical words” does not guarantee the presence of Love, nor does its absence eliminate the existence of Love.

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” – Rumi.

Silence is the language of souls, the language of God. Love flows in the silence without using a word. One must be in a state of oneness to hear it.

There is no beginning or end of Love. It’s impossible to say when someone first falls in Love. One can only recall the precise moment when the realization happened. Love has long existed before that moment.

This realization of Love is profoundly liberating because it is free of all ties. It gives you freedom. It’s as if one is floating in an endless stream; all one remembers is the moment of entry, but not the beginning or end of the journey.

True Love has no bounds and is eternal. It’s like the celestial light traveling through space. It’s the inner sun, the light that each of us carries inside us, the light with which we all entered the universe. That is the sun of the souls.

muskurahat si khili rahti hain aankho me kahin

aur palko pe ujale se jhuke rahte hain

hoth kuch kahte nahi, kaanpte hotho pe magar

kitne khamosh se afsane ruke rahte hain

Being in Love is blissful. In Love, they don’t need a justification to rejoice. Their eyes are a reflection of their spiritual oneness.

Their soul smiles through their eyes.

“The light which shines in the eyes is the light from the heart” – Rumi.

What is the language in which Love communicates? What is the mechanism by which souls communicate with one another?

Love is an unspoken connection that has its language. A simple thought of another person is enough to send a message, and the soul connected to it will receive it. In Love, the silence speaks volumes even when two people are physically together and want to talk. Quivering lips and hesitantly closed eyes can convey a lot more than a bunch of sentences. One needs to be in a state of oneness to read this language.

One needs to be in Love.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller.

sirf ehsaas hain ye ruh se mahasus karo

pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koyi naam na do

A soul is as vast as the whole cosmos. The entire essence gets lost when one falls in Love only with physical attributes; the Love between souls is both inspiring and enriching. It is a bond that is timeless and eternal.

Allow Love to be what it is.

and,

don’t refer to it as anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcP8kJuwSjw