Me, My guru - on capacity of love!

 

Me, My guru - on capacity of love!

The talk was on death that day and One among us said “Guruji, I can’t imagine my life without X in my life. I love X so much. I would die without X!”

Someone immediately blurted out “Koi Martha nahi kisi ke ishq mein,

Bas yadein katl karthi hai kisht kisht mein..”

कोई मरता नहीं किसी के इश्क़ में 

बस यादें क़त्ल करती हैं किश्त किश्त में 

No one dies in love

It’s the memory that kills the person little by little…

And our Guruji even without as much as waiting for a second replied 

“koi ishq ke naam Taj chod jaata hai,

Aur koi khudh ko mitane ke samaan dhoodh letha hai

Ishq to ishq hai

Wo tho karne waale pe hai ke

Use ibaath bana de ke sharaab khaana…”

कोई इश्क़ के नाम ताज छोड़ जाता हैं 

और कोई ख़ुद को मिटाने के सामान ढूढ़ लेता हैं 

इश्क़ तो इश्क़ हैं 

वो तो करने वाले पे ही के 

उसे इबादत बना दे के शराब खाना 

One leaves behind Taj (Taj mahal) in the name of love

And the other finds ways to mess up his life (by becoming a drunkard)

Love is love

it’s the lover who decides

to convert that into a worship or a means to his destruction….

(to take up love as worship or to demean it to a status of lust…)

She said it casually. But it held answer to each of our pain and suffering. We all took as we wanted to. In each and every situation of life, we took it to break us or make us. It entirely depended on us. She gave answer to one person. But in that one answer she answered all – if one would want to. The rest as they say is history….

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also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/01/on-hindi-poems.html 

and

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/01/on-hindi-poems-safar-mein-by-nida-fazli.html