I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this:
"You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love."
This was how I saw it:
As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first cracks it find. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...they try to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you. For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.
-- Swami Vivekananda
8 comments:
wow...that's amazing and i truely compeletely and entirely believe in this theory...wonder how many of my tribe exist in this world :))
Ayesha: He he :) quite a few I guess. Bu t to put this 'theory' into practice would be some achievement.
dude thts tough! But i beleive it coz ive seen it happen :(
Should I say u r goddamn lucky :)
simple isnt it yet it is so tough to abide by it !! we usually tend to curve our hand closer slowy and surely at some time or the other !! :)
Dude, havent heard a better quote in a million years. Its so very right.
And btw, craiglist is listing classifieds in one city where no one can resist going to :)
Arun: Dude welcome back :)
Trish: This reminds me of another popular story about Swami Vivekananda:
While in Chicago a lady approached swami vivekananda and told him thus: 'am deeply in love with u, can I marry u etc etc'
Swamiji's reply 'why do u wish to marry me'
lady: 'You are one of the world's most intelligent men and am intelligent too (a PhD holder from a reputed univ). If we get married, our children will be bestowed with the greatest intelligence.'
Swamiji: 'If intelligence in your children is your concern, then love me as your son'
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