Love says, ‘Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!’

Shamz E Tabriz's 4th rule of Love says "Intellect and love are made of different materials. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, ‘Beware too much ecstasy’, whereas love says, ‘Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!’ Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden among ruins. A broken heart hides treasures"

Love says, ‘Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!’ How can love be so reckless? Why does it think of only the immediate happiness and forgets about the later consequences? What drives it to be so reckless and risk-taking? If it is one's heart then why does one's heart only feels and doesn't think anything? Who needs a broken heart even if it hides treasures? These are the thoughts clouding my mind these days. I have been thinking of writing essays on these rules for quite some time now. One of my friends told me to experience and imbibe each rule for a month and then write about them. I felt that it would take a lifetime to imbibe such selfless, strong faith with so much courage and conviction. I thought that I can't have enough faith to submit all of myself to find my higher self from the depth of my own soul. I was thinking and planning and procrastinating and trying to find reasons to postpone it further but suddenly something profound happened and here I am writing about love and intellect. 

Of course, the world is balanced and too much ecstasy can surely be a sure-shot reason for too much pain. Then why should one listen to one's heart and suffer when one's mind is giving all sorts of logical reasoning to calculate risk and take decisions which may be safe and which will keep us away from danger. One of the reasons may be that while the mind is presenting so many scenarios and so many solutions to the situation, the heart just puts its foot down and stubbornly presents itself with only one scenario. And that one scenario presents peace of mind. 

A loving heart makes one selfless. It is giving unconditionally and it usually relies on faith. The journey to reach inside you starts with being selfless. The mind of course always thinks with 'self' as the centre. The ego drives the decisions the mind takes. The decisions mind takes can always be for the good of one's own self but is it a sure-shot recipe for being safe and being a better person and ultimately finding oneself. Can one find self and soul if one does not lose one's ego and be selfless?

I feel that the main reason to love is to feel alive. If life is all about experiences then we better listen to our heart or rather love. What is life without experiences? Mere existence. If we want to feel alive then we do need to take the plunge and feel and experience what life has to offer. The path of truth is a labour of love and we may not win in a materialistic sense or get success (which in this world is measured in monetary terms only) by thinking through the heart. Still, loving will always bring us an experience with which we can reach inside ourselves. To find one's soul and the truth one has to take the plunge. 

To plunge or to take a leap of faith comes out of conviction and the conviction certainly comes from love. They say that all creation is a labour of love and can be only perfected in pain. So don't fret about the pain and concentrate on taking the first step towards the faith. Everything happens for a reason so don't try and find the larger scheme in the flow of events. Just go with the flow and everything will fall into place eventually. So when the heart says 'take the plunge!' it would be wise to take the plunge as that's the way to experience life and even if the outcome in long term is not what you had expected it to be but to have loved and lived and experienced the moments that you can cherish and remember is worth the efforts. 

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