Monday, December 28, 2009

Bet

I offered you my lifetime slavery. Let me bet, if you get a better or even an equivalent offer!

7 comments:

  1. To be a slave is to be low,
    for even I am not a king..
    Don't offer or submit to anyone,
    don't shed that free wing....

    Share your life with pride,
    for even a slave can at times rise..
    Let me know your true worth,
    let me feel that you are wise....

    No offer is more or less,
    you are meant to share the reign
    I give you back your freedom,
    beside my throne you are to be seen....

    Just a poetic continuation or reply to your blog :)

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  2. Indeed an ever nicely written comment...umm..in fact a poem...I truly admire and agree with what you have written....but just to add or can say just to bring to your notice.. the view point & thought that I meant by the quote....here by saying slave means SURRENDER....I offered my slavery... means... I surrender myself and my love to you...I surrender my unconditional ownership to you...I love you and respect you to that extent that I even won't mind loosing my individuality....in fact I will feel proud..the same proud which a stream feels, after merging with an ocean ....the sense of completeness...the sense of purpose...the essence of togetherness......

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  3. Kitna sukh hai bandhan main aj ye bhi jana humne....

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  4. Well said, I did understand your meaning in the first place. Lets rephrase my answer in another way, meaning remaining same though..

    Let there be no compromise,
    for true love believes in it not...
    It only sees love and respect,
    the heart is never shot....

    Love means not to loose,
    it doesn't know "I" or "YOU"
    It only knows about giving,
    it knows to be true....

    Love asks not,
    Love demands none..
    It only feels the presence,
    it only bathes in the Sun....

    For what I mean to say,
    is that love is always mutual..
    Don't surrender or submit to other,
    Don't even go for a fierce dual....

    True as you say,
    the stream merges in ocean..
    but no more it remains fresh & sweet,
    no more it experiences its own motion....

    To loose oneself in love,
    is to mean subtraction..
    But is that what love is about ??
    'Cause completeness comes with addition....

    Note: What I mean is its good if love is unconditional, but not at the cost of you leaving your true self behind. No surrender, no submission, no slavery and no individuality is lost in love...rather it is expressed more but altogether in a different sense.

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  5. My Answer:

    K: “It only knows about giving”
    S: unconditional giving itself means Surrender or Devotion.

    K: Love means not to loose,
    it doesn't know "I" or "YOU"
    S: Surrendering oneself doesn’t mean loosing but to celebrate the charm of togetherness. Both “I” and “You” needs to be surrendered to make a meaningful word “WE”. Before, You & I were incomplete but the surrender only had made a complete word. Since, Love is not about asking but about giving, so I can only fulfill my part, by saying that I offer you my slavery (surrender), I just can’t speak about his say. I simply can do my bit. Here, even if you take the literal meaning of the word “loose” as loosing, then also it is benefiting me only, as I am loosing my “I” and gaining “WE”.

    K: Love asks not,
    Love demands none..
    It only feels the presence,
    it only bathes in the Sun....
    S: Even a singular entity like Sun is made up of multiple entities (rays). White light is a mixture of colors and even in merging form it holds and enjoys the power of individual characteristic. So, even if you say that “the stream merges in ocean....but no more it remains fresh & sweet, no more it experiences its own motion....” doesn’t seem to hold a realistic meaning. It has got its own motion, the only difference is world might not be able to see and realize it but the stream itself knows the worth of its proposition in ocean.

    K: To loose oneself in love,
    is to mean subtraction..
    S: Love and Life can never be measured on the scale of mathematics.
    Multiplication, subtraction, addition rule doesn’t imply here. Here 1+1 neither makes 2 nor 11 but itself remain “1” in an intact and undetectable form.

    K: Let there be no compromise,
    for true love believes in it not...
    S: Voluntarily giving up (like Meera bai surrendered to lord Krishna) or a wishful gift cannot be taken as a compromise.
    It’s a token of love, a sense of expression, a beauty of relationship. Whatever I am doing out of my true feel cannot be taken as a compromise. My devotion towards my love should not be challenged as a compromise.

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  6. Unconditional giving comes & is successful only when both think the same way...I am not sure in your original blog if you meant that. Now lets begin from last...I knew from your words and thought process that Meera Bai is somewhere behind it. Tell me what love is that which can't bring 2 people together, Meera never stayed with Krishna and in a way betrayed her husband by not being loyal to him either from mind and soul....If love is all about the stream joining ocean, then I don't see our Meeraba or even Radha to get married and stay happily with Krishna, did they?? Now you might say, its all about feelings and the heart, but both of them still remained far. Its like a lake of Himalayas wishing to join Arabian sea, yet not leaving the mountains.
    A person's true feeling and love is admired; but then think once, will that person truly be satisfied with it in his/her whole life. Can you possibly give every bit of yours to someone without expecting anything back ?? Then if tomorrow the other denies his/her love, will you still continue to love him/her without once feeling angry, sad or betrayed. If one can do that, then that is "true, unconditional love"...but 21st century sees no one like this.

    Maintain your dignity,
    keep to yourself your feel..
    Only when you know the other,
    then you open your seal....

    Love's meaning is lost,
    people think their own..
    but universal love is that,
    which by nature has been shown....

    Blame you cannot,
    nor be angry or sad..
    You have to unconditionally obey,
    even if the other is bad....

    There still has been no example,
    where true love has won..
    No compromise-no separation,
    where completeness has been shown....

    I rest my case to you,
    tell me if you know one..
    And happy I shall be as much,
    for my seal then can be undone....

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  7. Woo nice poem and a nice reply also.
    Let me start by taking as a scratch a sentence written by you only “Tell me what love is that which can't bring 2 people together, Meera never stayed with Krishna and in a way betrayed her husband by not being loyal to him either from mind and soul”. Well, Meera never betrayed her husband. She performed all the duties as a wife. Moreover, Rana ji (husband) always had a soft corner for meera, he always liked her and was aware of meera’s affection towards Krishna and if he knew about the feeling before the marriage we can’t call it as a betrayal.

    “If love is all about the stream joining ocean, then I don't see our Meeraba or even Radha to get married and stay happily with Krishna, did they??” I find it difficult to agree on the point that love should end in “milan” though nothing better can ever happen if 2 love birds meet for forever. In simple terms, before stepping the stairs of love no one in advance knows about the destiny...the best they can do is just their efforts....so what if a stream desires to flow in heaven and not on earth...atleast she had guts to dream impossible and tried her best to make it possible. And its not always like.... that great Lovers are never meant to meet finally...history shows some exceptional cases as well.....why we tend to forget about Lord Shiva and Parvati......Paravati as a reward of her penance got shiva and penance is nothing but her efforts which finally paid her. Yeah, I definitely agree, that one will surely feel depressed if his/her hard efforts and true feelings are not paid in the end....but I guess Life is like this only......you always get through your desires...is not always mandatory....the worst and questionable part of destiny!!

    “Can you possibly give every bit of yours to someone without expecting anything back?? Then if tomorrow the other denies his/her love, will you still continue to love him/her without once feeling angry, sad or betrayed.” A very practical statement written by you.....but again I have something to add up. I have no idea if you have ever gone to village or have witnessed any family where a female loves her husband even if he doesn’t care about her. Husband is really cruel; he speaks shit and has nonsense activities....still she lives her life with that person not because she has any restriction but because her love for him is greater than mountains. She is ready to be with that person even in the worst condition just by knowing the fact that she is given with a chance to serve his love and to tell you.......this happens in 21st century of India.......and I am strictly against if someone calls them a mere fool.....guess, people who says so should go and check their virtue and their love power to stand for their feelings in times of adversity and at the complete loss-loss situation. Moreover, being sad, getting angry and cursing the love for his/her bad deeds or his bad response is very “humanatic”. If love is a part of human emotions then anger is also equally its part and who says that anger is out of hatred only....it is out of love as well......can take the example of parents anger.....

    Besides, when two people fall in love, you cannot ask or demand other for anything. Betrayal, condition should not be your foreplay and if other has done it to you then you just can’t do anything about it. But again, in this situation also, you should not deny your true feelings for him.....at least you truly loved him/her....you cannot guarantee about other side......at the most you can just put up your sincere efforts to make him/her understand his/her follies........you can do just your own part......and doing one’s own part never means a compromise with “dignity”......please keep ego out of the relationship.........

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