Love Story

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Love is one of the strongest energies of the world, is invisibly and spiritually holding the objects together e.g. energy holding the earth and the sun together, the energy holding mother and son together etc. Love is infinite and exists in infinite number of forms. Nobody can show, explain, teach and write about Love, we can only feel this energy while being in Love. So what can you expect in this book? First as I said, it has infinite number of forms so here we are about to talk about only one form of Love and that is Love between a lover and beloved. Second as already said, nobody can talk about absolute love. Simply saying, nobody can exactly tell, “What is Love?” We can only talk about different events (Love Events) which used to happen in Love and different effects (called Love Effects) which Love has on our lives. So I will be talking about my experience of a True Love through these events and effects. Here I would be sharing my experiences with the help of my Love Story. Who can even imagine that even I could fall in Love! I used to consider Love as an absurd thing before I fell into it. So from these lines this point is quite clear that nobody can guarantee that he/she will not fall in Love whatsoever is his/her nature and type. Till the first semester in MCA, I never paid any attention towards girls. I don’t have any interest in girls and most important point was that I never had free time for all this. As I am, I was always busy in study and having no time for 2 any extra activity. Right from my childhood, I am like that, always busy in my own self. Even during college time I never paid any attention towards girls. As I used to reach college or in the path between home and college, I didn’t look at girls like other boys and just try to escape from girl’s sight. I didn’t talk to them and by chance if any try to talk to me then I try to reply in yes or no. In college during vacant periods, I used to study my books. I didn’t have any close friends. So you can say I was isolated from the rest world. Even at home I didn’t use to interact with other boys in my village. Either I used to study at room or go out for grazing sheep, goats, and oxen in jungle and used to study there. So my life till the end of first semester was totally confined to my own self, no interaction to the outside world. I was working hard for the realization of my dreams. Although when I came to HPU, I realized that I lagging the world and I need to update myself as per the time. 3 2. Love in First Sight My life suddenly took a sharp turn in the beginning of second semester. I returned to University after the end of first semester vacation on 3rd March 2010 after enjoying the Holi fair. By that time my friends have already reached and University has already reopened. They daily used to go for taking sugarcane juice at Love Point (A place near University chowk, where road to girl hostel and Thandi Sadak starts, I have named it because I fell in love here). They told me about this and asked me to accompany them. Since it was only the start of semester and I was not quite busy so I decided to go with them. I don’t remember exactly, it was either 4th or 5th March 2010; I had gone to Love Point for taking juice with Navneet Sharma (one of my closest friends and my room-mate at HPU). It was around five o’clock in the evening. We ordered two juices and once it was ready we started taking it. Meanwhile a group of girls was heading towards the Love Point. Since it was a point on girl’s hostel road so one can expect such things. As already said I used to escape from girl’s confrontations so in order to escape this group which was heading towards us, as usual I simply turned opposite to this group of girls, facing my friend Navneet. Now that girls group which was heading towards the Love Point stopped there obviously for taking juice. I was facing Navneet and he was facing me and girls. We kept enjoying juice and talking for some time. Navneet placed the empty glass back and he also paid for juice or we had already 4 paid, I don’t remember exactly. Person selling juice was on right side of the road. We were standing on his right and girls were on his left. I was standing in between Navneet and girls. Now I turned to my right to place the empty juice glass back and then further right towards the girls to get back, my eyes clashed with a girl standing on second position with respect to the juice seller’s side. She was wearing a simple suite with white (my favorite color) sweater. All of a sudden I felt a strong shock; Hundreds of pictures flashed through my mind, reminding me some old and deep connection with her. I lost myself in her calm, self-composed, deep eyes carrying peace with very high positive energy. Her eyes were containing a new world where there was peace and only peace and perhaps this was the peace-land which I had always dreamt of. She took off her eyes but I kept watching and wanted to keep staring for some more time but because of my own nature I could not look at her more than two to three seconds. It was first time when my eyes wanted to stare at a girl because before this I was afraid of girls and used to skip their sight. Her eyes told me, “Oh! You, I found you….” It appeared as she also had the same feelings. I felt as I knew her for a long time, we had an old relationship. Moreover a number of unclear pictures of her flashed through my head which remained un-interpretable for my poor mind. I felt strongly connected with her and because of these feelings of connectedness I was being drawn towards her and this is how I fell in Love with Shivani; it was love in first sight. My heart was feeling these feelings but poor mind was unable to handle this incident. How to express myself, what to say, my mind was 5 completely unaware of this. After all I had escaped of girls for years and now suddenly why I wanted to stare at one particular girl? Why did I want to see her for some more time and, again and again? Who was she? These were the questions that remained questions for my mind. My mind has got unstable, either it needs to be taught about this incident or need to give some false explanation for all this. It was difficult to understand this incident so my mind created its own story to fool me about this incident. 6 3. My Experiment with Love Before I felt the strongly connectedness with Shivani, I didn’t use to talk to girls and use to escape from their sight but at the same time I was aware that I need to update myself for the survival in the IT industry after all I was going to become a Software Engineer. So for a long time (since my college time) I want to start talking to girls to update myself but I couldn’t do that. After seeing her first time, my heart felt the feelings and fell in Love with Shivani but my mind could not understand the whole scene so my mind fooled me something like this- it told me that I would update myself with the help of Shivani. And most dangerous thing, it asked me to carry out an experiment in which I was supposed to talk to her as a final outcome. The day when I would be able to talk to her, on that day my experiment would be complete and this is how, I would improve my personality. Now as per my heart (due to feelings) and my mind (because of experiment), I was supposed to see her. Outer actions looked same but inner assumptions were quite different. So at this point from my actions both seemed to be in sync but they were not actually in sync; this was the first phase of Love i.e. Having Feelings (to be discussed later). My heart was feeling something and mind was telling something different. Since my mind was calling it an experiment initially so I named this love story as ‘My Experiment with Love’ earlier but later changed the name because name was clashing with a novel and name was also making negative sense. I felt the 7 feelings of connectedness every time I saw her and because of that I found myself being drawn towards her. Something strong happened inside and I was going to express it to the world so how to do that, really that was quite tough, in fact this story was necessary for mind also. So get back to the Love Point, still we were getting back from there and they were also leaving towards the girl’s hostel. Since at that time Navneet was with me so I told him something like this- indicating Shivani I told him that she looked good to me and in order to update myself I wanted to see her and wanted to do an experiment to update myself. Such statement was quite obvious from me as how could one person suddenly go behind a girl who never used to even talk about girls. Perhaps Navneet replied like thisgood that’s good. At that time he might be thinking and feeling happy that somehow I had started talking about girls because he was my room-mate and I used to deny him and other friends like Ashok and Manoj, to talk about girls in my room. So here three points are clearFirst: It’s not predictable when one could fell in Love. Second: Anybody could fall in Love. Third: The beautiful feelings of Love are not easily realized and your logic (mind) can confuse you about your true feelings for someone. 8 4. How to get Started? After seeing her the very first time at Love Point, I have an intense feeling to see her again so I followed her time to the Love Point even the next day and I was pretty happy to see her at the same time and same place. Now next step was to have information about her department because it was not possible to find her there every time. Since she used to pass the Love point around 5 o’clock and one day my graduation classmate Surbhi* was also passing through the point in another group at the same timings so I made a smart guess that she might belong to the same department as that of Surbhi (Chemistry department) and later it proved so. She was doing M.Sc. and joined University in same session. We (her and my department) were going for a picnic to the Hatu Peak. On that day I saw her at the University Chowk and followed her to the department with Ashok to know her department and this is how I confirmed her department. Then later that day I saw her many times during the picnic and also clicked her pictures obviously from a distance in indirect way. But, what next? How to satisfy the strong desire to see her again? When I entered the Science section first time in first semester I got scared after seeing students there studying in very disciplined and serious way. So I started to study in the 24*7 Hour section which was not so serious. It was too much crowded and too noisy. So in second semester I decided to upgrade my seat to Science section perhaps now I was eligible to study there. There were other sections also 9 in the library like Cold Section and B.Ed. sections but I liked the Science section the most. I wanted to see her again but I didn’t know how to do that. Among this uncertainty I decided to go to library and started my study for this semester. As decided earlier I went to Science section to study there. In science section there are two parts: inner and outer parts. Outer two walls are raised about 5 to 6 feet with a sitting capacity of two tables (width wise) and a path between those two rows which together form the outer part and remaining an inner part. I sat in the inner lower part of science section facing the wall of outer section. Perhaps nature was also creating environment to bring us together. I was studying there and as I raised my head I saw her sitting in outer part of science section right before me. She was at right angle to me, facing the pillar. Now it was quite easy for me to see her. In fact I want to use a term which people quite often use and that is ‘Line maarna’. So here, yes here in the science section I learned how to Line a girl. Was this so easy for me? Of course not and you would definitely laugh when I would describe how I used to line Shivani. The Nature had created the environment for me, now it was my turn to carry out my actions. She was just before me and only thing I need to do was that I just need to move my head upward to see her. But it was not that much easy for a person who never used to see girls, escape their sight, was afraid of girls and was very introvert. Heart was drawing towards her because of feelings, mind was asking to see her to be successful in experiment and update myself; and I was shivering to even see her once in a while. So this is 10 how I used to see her: First I used to mentally prepare myself for seeing her, fill myself with confidence to be able to see her and then once in an hour I dare to raise my head upward to see her. I became regular in science section, started to occupy the same seat and keep lining Shivani without letting her know (which was very strange thing if you have ever lined some girl because generally we expect an eye clash). Then a very interesting thing happened after some days, perhaps she got an idea that person sitting left of her on lower inner part watch her so in order to confirm this she tried to check it out. When I used to see her, she used to turn her head to her left to confirm this but I immediately put my head down, after all I was very afraid of girls. At that time one thing that was important to me was that whether I was looking at her or not and it was not important whether she was looking back or not. It was the beginning; slowly-slowly I developed confidence and was able to look at her comfortably. Second semester I passed in the lower inner part of the science section, enjoying the feeling of connectedness with Shivani while watching her whenever I felt to do so. She was also regular in library and except the lecture hours she used to spent whole time in the library that way nature created the best environment for me and without any need to follow her (as usually boys have to do), I was able to line her effortlessly. Then I got many opportunities to saw her in library, campus, department, outside library etc. Actually I sat in lower inner part for around two months only then I changed my seat to outer part, close to Shivani. In third semester, I started coming to library before Shivani 11 and selected such a seat that I could see her, whatever seat she would choose. I sat on upper part of Science section behind her previous seat. She was also very smart when she returned to library she chose the seat opposite to me. I was sitting beside a huge pillar and sat on other side. So both of us used to sit together, separated by a pillar and facing away from pillar. No doubt she had chosen a seat which was not in my view but still she had to pass by me and travel a long path in front of my eyes before she could leave the Science section. I sat there for the rest of my MCA and she also remained on that seat till the last. In this way, daily I got enough time to see her while moving and feeling her presence just with me. 12 5. My Poetry My Feelings The Feelings that I have for her, in deep inside my heart, produced different sensations at different times whenever she appeared before me. These feelings sometimes produced sensations of excitation without any reason and sometimes the sensations pinching my heart. Feelings that excited me really made me happy but due to her negative response towards me, it hurt my feelings. Sometimes these feelings made me happy and sometimes sad. Sometimes happiness and sadness arose at the same time. Whenever she was before me I was happy because I was able to enjoy the feelings of connectedness but I was sad because she didn’t talk to me and it kept pinching me. If I was happy at some time due her then there was no guarantee that I would be happy in the next moment too. Thus here I could infer a general point about love, “In love if you are happy due to some incident then at the same incident you can be sad too. Moreover at one moment if you are happy then it is not sure that you would be able to persist in the same state and could jump to other extreme.” Oh! Really all these feelings are very strange. Those people who haven’t fell in love, who haven’t experienced these feelings; I think they haven’t lived their life. We can’t buy such feelings. Really those people who have experienced these feelings are the blessed ones. I tried to approach her many times but I couldn’t even talk to her. So my feelings remained hurt all the times. Whenever I tried to talk to my friends about these feelings 13 and the related pain, they could not understand and these feelings remained confined to me. I found an alternative method to express my feelings and it was expressing them into words carrying all that pain. Yes it was using poems. I wrote my first poem in the second semester on 30th April 2010. I wrote it while moving from hostel to library in the morning and it was ‘Ek Rishta’ (you can refer to my other poetry book for these poems). I started to express my feelings as poems and till this date I have written around 30 poems (number 30 was when I was writing this book in 5th or 6th semester but now it is more than 50). Almost all the poems are carrying the pain of my hurt feelings so these poems are not just rhythmic flow of words rather every poem, every word has its own story. Here one point need to be cleared is that they hardly contain 5-10% of my feelings what I felt at the particular moment when I wrote these. So once again I can draw an inference about love is, “The basis of love are hour feelings and nobody can express these feelings, nobody can make others understand the feelings. Feelings could only be felt, realized by certain blessed people.” So my poetry for her is simply my feelings more precisely only a bit of my feelings expressed under very special high states of my heart. Each poem is telling its own story, is in its own flow. I informed Shivani about this that I have written around 30 poems for her but as usual there was no response from her side. There is one good news that I have published all those poems which I have written for her into a book named “मेरी भावनाएं, मेरी किवताएं”. When I left HPU in June 2012 by that time I have completed 40 poems. I thought I will forget her in the 14 industry but in spite of a lot of efforts I couldn’t do that and continued to write poems expressing my helplessness and loneliness. Later I decided to publish my poetry with a collection of 49 poems. I have true feelings for her and only she used to run on my mind. I am good human being and in spite of other good characteristics I couldn’t even talk to her, God knows how to impress girls but yes I failed to do so. 15 6. Love is Constructive When you fall in love that means the time to improve your personality has come. Day to day you improve and you gain something. You can never lose anything in the real sense. We work on our weak areas, we try to follow her good traits, we try to do good things to create a better impression and because of all these we keep on improving day by day. That’s why Love is Constructive always. When we love someone we see goodness in their actions, we can notice their actions which are better than others. In fact we can see goodness only in their actions and try to follow that goodness. We like to adopt their good things to feel close to her and approach her. In this way each time we see her, we see something good in her and then we try to do the same thing. This is how each time we see her, we are learning, we are improving. Now as far as my love story is concerned she has completely changed my world. Initially I don’t pay much attention to my dress-up but after seeing her I started paying attention towards my own self (of course not much). She not only helped to improve my personality but helped in improving my study. Earlier I used to write a little about what I study. But when I continuously noticed that she used to write a lot, in fact she used to write everything she studies. After noticing this I also adopted the same style. Every time I come to library I was inspired to be punctual, disciplined, sincere and regular towards my study because of just her presence in the library. Earlier I didn’t have any 16 such inspiration but now I have got an inspiration. A desire to see her while lining up outside the library, see her walking up to her seat and look into her eyes were the simple things which acted as strong motivation for my continuous improvement. Here I can draw another inference, “Love becomes your inspiration to do better and better. The more time we spent around her the more we are inspired to do better.” In love we are improved from all aspects, morally, personality wise, character wise and study wise etc. So we can say, “Love is Constructive”. You can see me; a simple person like me has become a poet and writer. Not only this, she has transformed me completely. 17 7. She’s Perfect When I saw her the first time, my heart felt the strongly connectedness with her like an old relationship. I felt as she’s here only for me. The God had sent her only for me and she’s perfect for me from every aspect. Just like me she was completely serious about the study and doesn’t pay attention to absurd things. As I was not having girlfriend similarly she didn’t have any boyfriend and both of us were focused towards our study. This helped me enjoy my love story and gave it this much time to progress otherwise it must have banished in the beginning. So I could say that God had specially sent her for me. Her every trait was matching with me. First time I saw her in simple salwar-kameez with white sweater. But later I found her as a very fashionable girl changing her dress daily for almost whole month. She was too advanced in fashion and that too helped me to change my mentality and provided me space to think over this aspect of personality. Her seriousness in study like me, not wasting time in absurd things, her cute face expression carrying high positive energy and the most important thing her calm eyes carrying peace where I lost my heart, are the different things that make me think that she’s perfect for me. She’s just like a ‘Dream Girl’ for me. If ever I have wished, I must have portrayed this seriousness, calmness, positive face expression and deep peaceful eyes. In fact she is more than my expectations and so she’s the perfect piece of God’s creation for me in this world. Although only 18 feelings of connectedness were sufficient for me but she had unmatchable physical beauty too. When I saw her from close and face to face, I was stunned and I could only say, “Har Kuchh (i.e. ultimate)”. So she is perfect from every aspect. 19 8. Her Attitude Her Personality Shivani has her attitude level very high which is one of the characteristic of her personality. Whenever it’s a question of study, her general dealings with others, her nature, she shows very nice thinking level. She used to spend almost all her time in her study in the library and show high confidence in what so ever she is. Her dress up is also very graceful. She doesn’t talk to the strangers and used to take good stand. Whenever she speaks she does so confidently and to the point. Her posture is superb. She is beautiful, confident, good girl carrying high positive energy on her face. Her eyes are superb and it were her eyes who stole my heart. She looked beautiful in all dresses whether it’s jeans or salwar-kameez but I liked the most in salwar-kameez because in this dress her expression were more cool and she appeared too calm and nice. Whenever she used to bear jeans her attitude goes very high and I was even afraid to look at her. I felt more close to her in that simple dress up. 20 9. When I sunk into My Own Self In love most of the time we have very strange situations, events used to happen. Such situations, events are normally beyond the thought process. Once can’t even think of such moment in his life. So here I can say, “Love is an adventure” which have a lot of strange things in its box. One very interesting point about Love is, “The next moment is unpredictable”. If I am happy at some point of time due to love then the next moment need not to be happy one. We might be sad the very next moment e.g. when I saw her I am completely excited, very happy. But back to back sometimes I become sad because I think that she used to pass by me but never talk to me. This simple thought used to me sad. So it is sadness back to back of happiness. Sometimes the feeling level rises to such a level that it becomes difficult to express what has happened to me. Such a situation arises that person couldn’t say anything and interesting point is that even the person himself doesn’t know what has happened to him. I have faced all these situations. I felt inexplicable many a times. Different thoughts keep hitting about her like one day she would go away from me. And the ultimate situation of such a random hitting of the mind is these strange situations. The most important event of my love story that happened to me is the situation when I sank into my own self. I don’t remember exactly the time when it happened with me but perhaps this incident happened during 4th or 5th semester. I was totally lost. I was just cut-off from the world. I was 21 doing my daily things as usual but I wasn’t aware of the whole situation. I used to get up in the morning as usual, doing everything required, came to library and attend classes. When I did something I did it with awareness to good extent although later it affected my actions also. When I was doing something, it was okay but as I finish something I get lost. I mean to say that I was earlier doing things right as I do them normally but the time between two actions was creating the problem. During this time gap between the two events I used to lose somewhere on some unknown land. I was doing my actions by default just like a machine and when there was a free time I simply used to lose my self. Let me elaborate with example- when I get up I go for meditation, for bath, breakfast. I was doing all these things as usual but without awareness and as a default behavior. And for time in between some kind of thinking process starts in my mind. When I start from hostel to library I couldn’t see what is happening around me, I couldn’t enjoy the nature around me and I was lost in some kind of thinking process. Earlier this situation was not grim but slowly-slowly it turned grim. My life become like the functionality of a machine. I was as a mad person. This was the stage when I was completely mad in love. I lost control over my body. No awareness of my life and the things around me. Completely mad, completely lost, completely insensitive to the environment. Really this was the most terrific thing in my love story. You might be thinking that after all what happened to me that I got into such a state. And actually what I was doing during all these time on my mental level. As a virus attacks 22 a computer system, it takes the control from the system and goes on executing its own code; similarly my mind was attacked by “Shivani’s Thoughts”. Yes these were Shivani’s fantasies in mind. Whenever there was a little bit time, my mind starts developing thoughts about her. Earlier I have control over this thought process. Earlier these thoughts used to hit my mind only when my mind was having free time like while moving from hostel to library. But later they affected my actions too. Even during study I started losing myself and the situation became grim or you can say I sank into my own self, lost in her fantasies all the time. I was disconnected from the world. I couldn’t notice the things happening around me. So this was the most terrific situation I felt I love. It might be difficult to visualize for you but for me days-weeks past just like the slumber. How did I recover? Now interesting question is how did I recover from this? I used to do meditation daily so that helped me to recover of this situation. Even during the meditation I start framing her fantasies but after all it was meditation and at some point of time mind was supposed to stop. So this actually happened for me in meditation where my mind stopped her fantasies and I was able to observe my situation. I started questioning myself and tried to be aware of my feelings and thoughts. I tried to observe myself. So all this helped me to recover. When I lost myself in her fantasies they were just simple imagination like I am seeing her in the library, talking her, she is smiling back to me, how we are facing each other in library, seeing her wandering with me in 23 campus and simple stories in which I was doing some heroic deeds to impress her etc. Really this experience in love was terrific. At that time she had completely over casted my mind and cut me from outside world. 24 10.Love is a Spiritual Concept When something can be purchased, measured, seen, touched etc. then it is a material else it is a spiritual. In short mortal things are material and immortal things are spiritual. All material things have material reasons since material reasons cease to exist at some point of time so material things are temporary. On the other hand spiritual things have spiritual reasons behind them so they exist forever or you can say spiritual things don’t have any reason in material terms and they are everlasting. If we talk about love (more precisely true love) its basis are the feelings which can’t be seen, measured, purchased and they don’t have material reasons so feelings are spiritual concept. Being spiritual in nature, it doesn’t have end. Thus Love being based on feelings is also a spiritual concept. Material and spiritual things are somehow connected to each other. Love being spiritual is being experienced by humans which are material in themselves. That means spiritual experiences are to be enjoyed through material existence and perhaps vice-versa. So my point is that material things possessing love (say me in my love story) would cease to exist one day but the love felt by them would exist forever in the form of some frequencies/vibrations in this Universe. And these vibrations are the possible reasons for having feeling after seeing some strangers (this point to be discussed later). In my love story as I told earlier I used to ignore the existence of girls to keep moving towards the purpose of 25 my life undistracted. But when I saw her first time, it was only certain feelings that pulled me towards her. These feelings are the only basis of my love story. It was not her beauty or any other characteristic like her nature rather only these feelings of ‘being strongly connected for years beyond this material existence’ that pulled me towards her. Because of these pure feelings of connectedness, my love is a Spiritual love and so a True Love. One interesting point of my love story is that the feelings which are the only basis of my love story, I am still unable to understand that why I have these feelings for her. She is perhaps altogether unaware of these feelings. 26 11.Theory of Love Oh! Really, you want to know the theory of Love? Don’t be in an illusion. As already said, nobody can actually define love but people could only try to describe the events and effects of Love. Love is infinite and so can be defined in infinite ways by different people and sometime even by the same person. So here I am trying to express whatever I have realized. “Love is a feeling that connects two souls together without any logical reason.” Whenever you see that person, there is a certain feeling that drag you towards that person and you are in a state of bliss. You wish that time could stop; you could see that person forever. Next I am going to talk about different phases in a love story. Be alert, love is infinite so has infinite viewpoints and accordingly they could define different phases. Here I am about to discuss my viewpoint. I believe love has three phases. These are: a) Having Feelings b) Realization of Feelings c) Expression of Feelings The first phase is having feelings for someone; this is the starting point for a love story. Now question arises how do we have these feelings? Scientifically it is difficult to explain this. Might be there is an image in our mind and when it matches with someone in reality we have feelings for that person or might be you like certain behavioral traits of other person and then you have these feelings or 27 something like that. In order to provide explanation on the spiritual grounds I want to propose a theory. As I have given some hints earlier, spiritual experiences are enjoyed through material existence. Now as we know spiritual things live forever but material things vanish after a certain point in time. So when material things which enjoys the spiritual experience, perish where does the spiritual experience go? I believe as the material objects possessing spiritual experience perish, the spiritual experience are radiated into the Universe in terms of vibrations (because spiritual things never die). These vibrations keep swinging in the air (called Love in Air) for infinite time. Now when these material objects (driven by some spiritual form) are manifested into material world again and when they face each other then those vibrations (from previous birth) passes through these material objects and they have sensations of their connectedness, the infinite love. Thus according to my this ‘theory of feelings’ when you feel some connectedness after seeing someone then this might be because you used to exist at some point of time earlier with that person and your combined energy of love is present in the Universe in the form of vibrations for a long time. So phase one of love is the origin of love (for this birth). Second phase of love i.e. Realization of Feelings is the most important phase in a love story. First you have feelings for someone (your heart feels the connectedness) and then you realize (your mind accept) existence of those feelings. Logically you can say (remember love is beyond logic) at second phase your heart and mind tend to sync. 28 When you see someone and feel the connectedness it is not necessary that your mind is able to accept these feelings and understand this situation. Till the first phase only our heart knows but our mind is not aware of what is running inside and till this phase mind can fool us by framing its own stories, after all mind is controlling and running this body in sync with heart. It’s very unfortunate that more than 80 percent (I guess) of the people couldn’t move to second phase from first phase. That means many people remained unfortunate to realize their feelings and this is how they lose the true love meant for them. So second phase is that stage where you actually admit that you are in love. In fact this is where one person comes to know about love for someone special. So far the person himself is unaware of love and that’s why the most important phase. Third phase i.e. Expression of Feelings is the least important and is not required in spiritual terms. A person first have feelings for someone, realize that he/she actually feels like that for someone and then he/she expresses his/her feelings which is a difficult task to do because nobody can express feelings, they can only be felt. First let’s talk why third phase is least important and for that we need to discuss another theory about ‘theory of success of love’. When is a love successful? In spiritual terms, Love is successful after second phase i.e. Love is successful once a person realizes feelings for someone. That means the moment when a person came to know that he/she is connected to someone, his/her love is successful. Although in material terms (according to worldly definition of love) when people loving each other get married their love is 29 successful. But we will consider the spiritual definition of love because we know love is a spiritual concept not material so worldly definition does not hold. One more point, for the successfulness of love it need to be both sided, it could be one sided successful love but in material terminology one sided love is a failure. So as far as my love story is concerned, I believe first phase is according to Spiritual theory and I would be discussing the second and third phases in coming chapters. 30 12.Realization of Feelings I saw Shivani first time on 05th March 2010 at 05:05p.m. I felt the strongly connectedness with her but my mind failed to get the whole picture. For my mind it was just an experiment but at the heart level something different was running. I remained unfortunate to realize these feelings for about one year. Although the feelings were playing their role by pushing me towards her. During second semester I used to sit in the lower inner part of the science section and she used to sit right before me. I kept watching her while sitting there. One more semester (third) passed and during this time I saw her myriad times inside library and outside library. During this time I was thinking that I was just doing an experiment to improve myself. Perhaps now time had come to conclude the experiment or I can say for the realization of feelings (Love). It was during my vacation after third semester I felt very much disturbed internally. I couldn’t eat, sleep properly. Even my parents noticed it and asked me what the problem is. Actually her thoughts continuously hit my mind. On month of February I met with Abhishek who was her classmate and lived in my neighboring village. He told me that my choice was very appropriate and she was a very good girl. He offered to introduce me to her but truly speaking I was afraid of all this. He gave me her mobile number and asked me to propose her on phone on valentine day. I saved her number but denied to call as I felt it was not a proper way to propose and generally bad boys follow this path. Then he 31 told me that their practical exams were commencing from 23rd February 2011. I decided to propose her or express myself face to face. University reopened on 21st February. Now on 23rd February she had a practical so I decided to propose her on the same day after her practical, after all I have lost my sleep in her Love and I wanted to free myself from this discomfort. It was 23rd February 2011, right from the very morning I was feeling very much uncomfortable and stressed as I was predetermined to propose Shivani. I had decided everything regarding the place to propose and what to say. From the very morning being under such a state I couldn’t even take my breakfast and lunch properly. Moreover Abhishek told me that the practical generally finishes between 4 and 5 so he would message me when it would be over. I had decided that I would meet her first at University gate and then propose her around Love Point. Actually at University gate there was a shortcut to the road leading to girl’s hostel. I decided that first I would only see her at gate then I would take short cut to the road leading to girl’s hostel and then would propose her there. I had decided to say like this- “Excuse me, Shivani! I want to talk with you.” And then when she would stop I would say something like this – “I saw you first time here last year on 05th March 2010 and I had some feelings for you. I felt as I have some old relationship with you. I felt deep feelings and some unclear pictures flashed through my mind when I saw you. And I am in love with you…”. I had thought if she would say yes then good, I would go ahead and later marry her otherwise there would be no problem after all it was an experiment 32 for personality improvement and it would be a successful experiment since the target was to talk to her. Now what actually happened is as follow: I had talked to my friend to accompany me to the place before I would propose her. This was Ghanshyam. So he did accompany me till the University gate. Now as the clock hand struck 4 o’clock my heart beat went up and started waiting for Abhishek’s message as he told he would sent a message about the practical’s completion. But there was no message till 5 o’clock and this hour was really very critical for me to pass as I couldn’t even study. Actually practical finished on time. Now I received his message and I reached at University gate with my friend Ghanshyam. He kept discouraging me from proposing but I was predetermined after all it was difficult to pass time now, I want clarification. We were at University gate when she was approaching towards me with her friends. Around eight to ten girls were coming with her. I was already afraid and after seeing the large group I got scared too much but I didn’t have any other option except to talk to her. Now she was approaching close and close, I saw her and she noticed my presence. She crossed me and went to the market side perhaps for shopping something. Fortunately only two of her friends returned with her and rest remained in the Summer Hill’s market. Now she moved towards the Love Point to go to her hostel. It was time for action. We also moved towards the shortcut to girl’s hostel. Then I asked Ghanshyam to stay back on that shortcut and I took that short cut to reach on the road to girl’s hostel. I reached 33 there before Shivani. She was about 50 meters away from me. She was on the outer side (left side) and her friends were on right (inner side). Ghanshyam was also watching me from a distance. She saw me there and perhaps she got everything and that’s why she kept her eyes and head grounded. Now as she approached me I got into her path exactly before her and said, “Excuse me Shivani”. Now as I said this, first she raised her eyes and head from the ground up to my knees and then stepping aside she started moving faster although her two friends, for whom I was a stranger, stood by my side, looking at me that what I was saying. Now as I saw her stepping faster I immediately said, “Shivani, mein aap se baat karna chahata hoon”. As I said this she again didn’t look at me and kept moving. Her friends were still standing by me. While moving she turned back towards her friends and said, “chalo-chalo, jaan ni pehchan ni meine baat nhi karni”. Her friends also matched their foot-steps with her and slowly they were moving away. When Shivani said like that, it turned all darkness in a moment for me and a little difficulty to breathe. I have got a big shock. I was not able to understand what happened to me in moment but the whole world seemed to be shaking. Before they went off the sight, I turned to wall (shortcut where Ghanshyam was sitting and watching the whole scene) to take stairs. I saw Ghanshyam was sitting and holding his head after watching the whole scene. He told that he had already denied me but without bothering him I kept moving towards the library and didn’t know what else he told me. What I was thinking was very interesting. I was thinking that then everything was finished 34 and as I won’t look at her or any other girl. I was still thinking about my experiment. I (mind) was telling myself that my experiment was successful as I have dared to talk to a girl; after all talking to a girl was the objective of this experiment. Truly speaking I have learnt a lot from the first time when I saw her. Now I was able to face girls earlier I wasn’t able to do that. God knows how I dared to talk to a girl especially like Shivani, very fashionable but yes I had dared to do that. So no doubt my experiment was successful. Now let’s watch what happened at different levels. At heart level, it was completely broken into pieces after this incident. And mind was still saying a different story and but now it had to face the reality soon. My mind was saying everything is over and now I would focus on my study and won’t be looking at anybody. Next day I crossed her path outside the library and ignored her completely as per my mind. My heart was still hurt. Then I ignored her second time in library. Now while ignoring her I was feeling something, it was something very uncomfortable. And as I ignored her more, her more thoughts hit my mind. After some confusion initially, I realized later that I was in Love with Shivani and it was from the very first day. It was not my experiment rather it were my feelings for her which kept drawing me towards her. If it had been the experiment then everything should had finished with this incident. So this is how, after one year and after an attempt to propose, I realized that I was in Love. I decided to see her as I feel instead of being disturbed for the whole day as it was a better option. 35 13.The Consequences of My First Propose Immediately after proposing (more precisely trying to propose) I felt quite relaxed as I was stressed from the very morning considering my proposal. But this event has hit me deep inside my heart. There were some consequences of my first propose. First I realized my love, my feelings for Shivani. Secondly it badly affected my health. While I was proposing her two things hit me hard deep inside my heart. First that she didn’t even look at me and secondly her response and paying no attention towards me. These hurt my feelings so strongly that I fell ill and suffered cold, cough, throat pain etc. Though I took medicines and drank three bottles for cough but there was no improvement and this situation continued for about one and a half month. I was very fond of reading books and continuously used to read books like Philosophy, Psychology, and Poetry etc. So in order to overcome the hurt feelings I read “Learning to Love Yourself” by Dr. G. Hendricks. So the lessons which I studied there helped me to get well. So really my first propose was a big event of my life and it had drastic effects on me. 36 14.Second Attempt After my failure to even talk to Shivani, some of my friends advised me that these things require systematic approach and need to give some time to such things. And they told me that no good girl could say yes in the very first attempt like this. They advised me to follow the systematic approach. They asked me to first start talking to her, become a friend, give her some time to understand you and then think of proposing her. All their logics seemed making sense to me and I decided that I too would follow a systematic approach. No doubt I had decided that but was it that much easy for person like me who have so far learned only to face girls confidently. But after all feelings for her were playing their role and making me do anything. Now one day I was sitting in library on my usual seat when an idea to talk to her using some excuse hit my mind. In the morning I decided to delay it till the lunch time. One interesting thing was that we used to sit together separated by a huge pillar in the upper-outer part of science section. On one side she used to sit and on other side of the same pillar I used to sit, facing our backs towards the pillar. She was hardly one meter away from me and this continued for around two years from third to last semester. Now after the lunch I started thinking to talk to her and decided to ask her for an extra ball pen. This idea hit my mind around two in the afternoon. I started gathering confidence to be able to talk to Shivani. I used to prepare myself and try to get up off my seat but couldn’t do that. I made countless attempts 37 to get up but failed all the time, I just felt nervous to do that. I was feeling very uncomfortable and during all this time I was not able to study also. It was around 5:30 pm but I was still not successful to do that. Then Dinesh also came there and sat on my right side. Now I felt a little bit confident and somehow got up but again felt nervous so stopped at his seat. Then I told him that I was going to talk to her. After listening this he was stunned and in commenting style said, “Okay, do it”. Perhaps this was the first time when any of my friends motivated me to talk to her otherwise all the time they used to discourage me. Now as I stopped near Dinesh’s seat perhaps she noticed me and sank into her table. I approached her seat and said “Hello Shivani! Kya aapke paas extra ball pen hai.” She was completely sunk into her table and her eyes were not visible which I wanted to look into. It was only her head and hair what I saw. Without raising her head to look towards me she first moved her head in denial and then said, “Nahin”. All this looked very cute to me after all she talked to me although she said only ‘nahin’. After listening this I started returning back when my eyes fell on her hand and table. I noticed that she was having two ball pens, one black and one blue. She was holding one in her hands and one was lying on the table. Might be she need both of them but it again hit me hard deep inside my heart that she didn’t give a ball pen in spite of having two. Another thing that pinched my heart was that I asked her for pen and she didn’t even look at me and simply shook her head while being sunk into the table. I returned to my seat but couldn’t sit there so I left the science section, showing that I had 38 gone outside to purchase new one, and went into our Computer Lab. In this way even my second attempt to talk to her failed but I was happy that she said something to me. Once again there was emotional setback for me. “How could one hate someone to such an extent to treat like this”, thoughts like this hit my mind and again putting me into depression. Later all these events lead to more poems carrying this pain. 39 15.Second Propose Yes I tried another time. But don’t get excited because you couldn’t expect much from a boy like me. It was fake just like the first one. But yes I did my best. What could I do, I used to decide to do something but something different happens. I had decided to propose her but later forced to say good-bye and deprived of even looking at her directly. It was my fifth semester and of course she has completed her masters. I thought my love story would remain incomplete (even today it remained…) but good news came when I come to know that she had taken admission in B.Ed. and would be back in library soon. Moreover in sixth semester of MCA I was supposed to go for an internship outside HPU but luckily both the companies (Wipro and Impetus) where I have got placement delayed the joining. So I did my internship from DOECC Shimla itself. In this way she and I got one more year together. Perhaps Almighty was adjusting the different parameters in my favor but even then I couldn’t even talk to her and kept seeking for her single smile. She didn’t appear for almost whole fifth semester in the library. During the vacation after fifth semester she was here in University but didn’t appear in the Campus. So it had passed almost ten months since she had come to library and during this time I could hardly saw her twice or thrice. It appeared to me that she wouldn’t come again and I could hardly get any chance to see her. It seemed to me as my love story was approaching to an end. So I decided to 40 propose her again to made things clear to my heart about what she thought about me because if I would leave HPU without clarification then definitely it would create a lot of problems. This time it was different than first proposal after all this time I had realized the feelings and Love for Shivani. It was 10th March 2012 (last i.e. sixth semester) and yes it was my birthday. I was returning to University in a bus when I proposed her via sms. I knew she was in hostel but didn’t come to library. Before this I have sent her many sms but she never replied. But this time I made her reply and obviously it was something serious. First I sent her an sms- “Shivani g! jai mata di. Till this date I have written around thirty poems for you. Agar ek bhi aapne padh li toh mein samajhunga ki mera kavita likhana safal hua…” And then after some time I sent her the main sms expressing my feelings. Since I had feelings for her and I had already realized them so my love was already successful. I was on the third phase trying to express my feelings. As we know it (Expression of Love) is least important and most difficult phase in Love so I was stuck in this phase. So this is how I opened my heart another time to her- “Shivani g! I am totally serious about you and intend to marry you, time to leave Shimla is near and it seems to me as you don’t like me. So today make it clear to me by saying yes or no. If you say no then I would not disturb you and no sms at all. So please respond back right now…” 41 I already seemed to be negative. Moreover what can you expect from a good girl like her when you are proposing over sms without talking ever. Perhaps I knew everything and expecting a negative response. This time I had forced her for a reply and reply did come back. After around ten minutes I received the reply. The answer was very straight forward. It was- “No means no 4 god shake don’t disturb me. I don’t like all this”. So this is how I proposed the second time and got a response for it too. I was happy to know that all my earlier messages have reached its destination. After receiving this message I thought whatever it was after all things are clear to me before leaving HPU. My love story has ended and I would forget her. And then I sent her last message from HPU and it was- “it’s ok. I will not disturb u at all. alvidaa…” Again emotional break-down but this time I was happy to have a direct answer. By that time I used to think that I would forget her, it would be easy and that was my mistake. So time to time I suffered many break-downs, my feelings were hurt many times but no one was able to understand my condition. When I used to tell my friends about this they just used to joke and laugh about this. She was unable to feel the feelings which I was having for her. That was why I have to turn to writing poetry, writing my diary after all paper and pen was my only friends on this journey of love. The pain which I had in love turned a simple person like me into a poet and a writer. Really these feelings for her and the pain because of these are terrific 42 and unmatchable. I am thankful to the Almighty for blessing me with these feelings otherwise my life must have remained colorless. Perhaps for purpose of my life, all this was required to get me on the track. 43 16.Consequences of my Second Propose The response which I had received for my second propose carried three lines. The first two lines were very pinching although third one was a little bit relaxing. Retaining the characteristic of Love, the response carried both happiness and grief too. It gave me pleasure as it was almost first time (in fact second time) when I received some response towards me but it was hurting to great extent. First line clearly indicated that she rejected me by saying no and in second line she seemed to be blaming me for disturbing her, this again was quite pinching. In third line she told that she didn’t like all these things this was somewhat relaxing. I told myself that she rejected me not for rejecting but she had some other purpose in life like me. I received her response while returning to University in bus. So as I reached Shimla, my emotional battery was already down and it was difficult for me study in library thus I directly went to the lab and was there between 4-5 pm then came to library but couldn’t study. So I made an entry in my diary named “My University Days” about today’s incident and spent time here and there. Now days perhaps mess was closed or what, we (Manoj and I) used to cook our dinner together. So I called Manoj and told him that tonight I wouldn’t be able to cook food or provide any help in cooking. Then I packed one prantha and moved to hostel. I already knew that none of my friends would be able to understand my feelings after all even Shivani failed to feel them so what could I expect from my friends. So as I 44 reached hostel around six in the evening without talking to them, I simply went for sleeping. Person, who used to study till late in the library and at room, went for sleeping at six. Really emotions are very necessary in our life, without emotions a human would be just a machine. When my sleep broken it was mid night. I felt too much depressed again. I did not understand what was actually happening to me. Truly speaking even today I don’t know what is this which is connecting me to her and I simply call them feelings. God knows what this is. Since I hadn’t taken the dinner so I thought of having one prantha which I had had packed for myself. Even Manoj had left some milk for me. But I couldn’t had anything. I was hungry but it appeared to me as I wouldn’t be able to swallow down my throat. I took 3-4 biscuits and sat still on bed doing nothing. Neither studying nor doing anything else rather lost in my own self while being depressed to a great extent. I played some sad songs and lay down on the bed keeping lights on. Around 04:30 am I felt sleepy so I switched everything off and went to bed. Really here I had the real lessons of life without them my life would have been incomplete. God has planned everything for me and things are going as per His plan. In morning I woke up as usual. My mind was at least aware of the fact that if I wanted to live then I must eat something. I tried to take the milk but could take only half of that because I felt like vomiting. It was Sunday, I came to library but couldn’t study and in the lunch time I decided to go to in God’s feet. I went to Sankat Mochan with Vijay sir. 45 17.Torture Continues I proposed her second time when she didn’t appear in library for almost ten months. Slowly-slowly I recovered even that shock. I had accepted that if one loves someone then it’s not necessary that he/she would be loved back by other person. So I was simply trying to forget her. But God had some other plan for me. He wanted to burn me more in this fire of one sided Love. After around two weeks of my second proposal she returned back to library. During these days I was recovering, doing better and trying to forget her. When she returned back, earlier situation has created once again and the torture of my innocent heart continued. Earlier I used to see her every time she was in front of me; in fact it was beyond my control I was automatically drawn towards her. I simply used to look into her serene eyes to feel the connectedness, feel that peace which I was looking for years. But after the second proposal I told her that I would not disturb her. So how could I see her? Truly speaking it was not possible for me to stop myself from watching her so I decided that I would continue to see her but without letting her know this. In love one must be prepared for any kind of shock. As no moment is certain, at any moment you can receive any type of pain and that’s why we say second name of love is pain. No doubt it gives us lot of happiness, a new direction to our life, fills life with a lot of excitement, is a source of inspiration to continuously progress and move ahead but yes it does contain a lot of pain also. Your heart desires for 46 her simple presence around you. If she isn’t there that pinches. When she is around you, your heart desires to see her if you can’t then again it hurts. When she’s around you and in your sight then heart desires to have an eye clash. If she doesn’t look towards you then again there is strange kind of feelings leading to frustration. When all these things are in place then heart desires for her smile, then want to talk and so on. In addition to these it can’t tolerate to see her with any boy and things like that. I am too facing these situations. Just burning in the fire of Love. Every one of these situations simply frustrates. It was previous day when I was frustrated for the whole evening by thinking that why I was not able to talk to her. So all this keep torturing our heart in love. My heart was tortured every time, right from the first proposal, try to approach her second time in library, second proposal and after second proposal I was forced not to see her. 47 18.My SMSs My Feelings The feelings the most important concept in the existence of humanity, lays the foundation of every action, in fact every state of a person. The root of everything is feelings. We couldn’t do anything without feelings. In fact without feelings even the existence of individual human beings is not possible. Right from sleeping, eating, loving someone etc. you need to have feelings. Feelings are the bridges between animates whether they are people-people, peopleanimal or even the animal-animal. It is only the feelings that are connecting all of them together; sticking them together. For example consider two true lovers, actually what is there which is pulling them towards each other? Don’t say that it is the beauty, nature or intelligence etc. rather it is only feelings that bind them together. Similarly it is the feelings that stick a mother to her child and so on. Feelings are the universal language of communication. Let me elaborate this. You must have seen that if there are people of different languages and they don’t understand each other’s language even then they are able to communicate with each other. Just think how this is possible. The simple answer is – it is due to the feelings. Another interesting example- we have our pet animals like dog, cat etc. we can communicate with them. When we scold them they sit quietly in one corner but when we love them they used to linger around us. How’s this possible? Once again I would say this is possible only because of feelings. So I could conclude this- Feelings are the root of 48 everything, a bridge between animates, a universal language of communication and so on. In my love story, at different times I felt different emotions and tried to express them through different ways. First tried to talk to her, tried to write them and also sent her some SMSs trying to express my inexplicable situation. I sent Shivani exactly twelve messages (up to sixth semester). All of these sms were not mere messages rather they were carrying my feelings, my emotions, my sentiments. But unfortunately (perhaps) couldn’t feel the feelings behind all these sms and so I could get only a single response for all my messages and that too was carrying negative response. Out of my twelve messages, four were blank messages which I sent immediately after getting up early in the morning without delaying even a second and in the state of almost sleep. This clearly indicates she was running into my head all the time while going to bed and while waking up in the morning. I sent her my first message on her birthday on May 2011 at 12:00 am, wishing her happy birthday and last (in HPU) message on my birthday in 2012 while responding back to her rejection. Every sms was full of feelings rising from the bottom of my heart; although they couldn’t receive the same respect (might be there was something at other end I couldn’t understand). These messages in the sending order are given below. I want to mention here that currently I don’t have any of these messages because once I have deleted everything related to her after frustration, thinking that I would forget her. Messages are- 49 1) Happy Birthday SHIVANI! May u achieve what u want! Vinod K. Chauhan, M.C.A…! 2) All the Best! 3) Blank 4) Blank 5) Shivani, I LOVE U! I have true love with true feelings 4 u, at the same time I don’t expect anything from ur side. I just have a desire 2 talk 2 u once. I hope it will come true. Its (perhaps) my last sms. Achha g! sorry 4 disturbance I want to express face to face but u neither give a chance nor listened. 6) Blank 7) Shivani g! jai mata di & all the best… - Vinod MCA. 8) Shivani g! jai mata di & all the best… 9) Blank 10) jai mata di… till this date I have written around 30 poems for u. agar ek b apne pad li toh mein samajunga k mere poetry likhana safal hua… 11) Shivani g! jai mata di… I m totally serious about u & intend 2 marry u. time 2 leave Shimla is near. It seem 2 me that u don’t like me so make it clear 2 me by saying yes or no. if u say no I will never disturb u & will not sms u at all. So I request u 2 reply back right now. ReplyNo means no, 4 the god sake dnt disturb me, I dnt like all this. 12) It’s ok. I wil not disturb u at all. Alvidaa… And this is how my love story seemed to come to an end. 50 19.Love is a Blessing Yes, really Love is a blessing and those who fell in Love are the blessed ones. They are lucky ones as they have got an opportunity to have the beautiful feelings. Actually what is Love? Love is just a feeling and nothing more than that and, which are means to hold the lovers together. And in one sided love these feelings are responsible for drawing them to their beloved. Feelings of Love are terrific. They fill our life with excitement. Every moment is a moment of excitement. These feelings keep us active all the time, every moment. In love there is no laziness. These feelings eliminate the laziness. These strange feelings are very much uncertain; they can change their color at any moment. A slight twist in the feelings can change your present state. That means these feelings of love might lead to happiness or sadness and could twist from one state to another in no time. Sometimes we are happy and sometimes sad due to these feelings and in the next moment, we could be happy or sad. These feelings make our life colorful by forcing us through the states of happiness and sadness. These teach us the real meaning of life. Every state happiness or sadness is an experience in its own and this experience helps us to see the life closely and to live it in a better way. So the feelings of love make us aware of the beauty of life. In love every moment is a moment of improvement and makes our life a better one. We have already discussed this in chapter ‘Love is Constructive’. The Feelings which have all these strange effects on our life can’t be purchased at any shop, we can’t 51 lend, we can’t borrow rather we could only feel these life changing feelings while being in love with someone special. And that’s why Love is a blessing. Thus the lesson is that if you have got the nice opportunity, if you are such a blessed person then don’t bother about the result of your love story rather just feel these feelings and enjoy your life. Later in your life you might not get an opportunity to feel all this. So just enjoy these feelings, you are the blessed one. Now as far as my case is concerned it is only Love which have brought a twist in my life. Whenever I used to meet my old friends they used to say that I was totally changed. One reason for all these changes in my life was Love. Sometimes when I used to compare my life before 2nd semester and current one then I found the current one is much better. Earlier I wasn’t living my life rather I was just passing the every precious moment of this beautiful life. There was no color in my life rather it was like a machine executing with time its assigned jobs, without any feeling without any emotion. It was having no enjoyment, no excitement, and no taste at all. At that day no doubt the situations were very critical. No moment was certain. Some moments were giving happiness some sadness. No doubt there is lot of pain in this life but this one was the true life. Sometimes it gives us comparable joy too. So really I am the blessed one by the God to have an opportunity to experience all these feelings. 52 20.The Eyes Somebody has rightly said that the eyes are the mirror of the heart. They silently express whatsoever is there in your heart. Generally by looking into the eyes, we can say much about someone. As far as her case was concerned I couldn’t interpret her eyes properly. Her behavior was in contradiction to what her eyes used say. It seemed to me that she also liked me, she also had feelings for me but perhaps there was something which prevented her from saying this. But as far as her behavior was concerned she clearly used to say that she didn’t like me at all because I tried to approach her so many times but her response was completely negative. So there was contradiction in the message her eyes carry and what her behavior shows. I found her eyes calm, carrying high positive energy, containing a new world where there was peace and only peace and perhaps this was the peace-land which I had always dreamt of being a humanitarian. After looking into her eyes I could see love for me, same feelings as I have for her. Perhaps she failed at the second phase of love i.e. she could not realize the feelings. I felt as she was under certain constraints which prevented her from showing her feelings. Her behavior shows negative response towards me. Although the basis of my love story are the feelings only but as far as her physical beauty is concerned I liked her eyes the most. When I used to look into them I used to feel as I was somewhere there was peace all around. I always dreamt to live in a place where there is peace and peace 53 only. And when I used to look into her eyes, I used to find myself exactly on that dreamland where there was peace all around. I felt as that was my final stop. I saw my true self there. I don’t have words to express the beauty of her eyes, it’s inexpressible. I wish I could dive into her eyes and time would stop! 54 21.Symptoms of a True Love It’s difficult to define Love and I am talking about True Love that must sound crazy. After all love is craziness. Okay without beating much about the bush come to the point. There are many things which give you hint of your love being True Love. I would discuss some of them. True Love is based on feelings. Yes it should be, how there could be love without feelings at all. Actually I am pointing to one point and that is sometimes people base their love on the physical beauty. This is not true love because beauty is materialistic and thus temporary, after some time the person would lose the physical beauty. That means love based on beauty would vanish after some time but as we know love is eternal it couldn’t end at all because of its spiritual nature. Thus True Love is based only on the feelings. In True Love, happiness of your partner is of supreme order. The only goal of lover is to make his beloved happy and that’s all. When it is True Love from both sides then life becomes heaven otherwise person would be exploited and this aspect is beyond our scope. If she is happy without you even in that case you should be ready to leave her. Another word I would like to attach to Love is sacrifice. When sacrifice is attached to love then definitely Love becomes pure and True Love. You should be ready to sacrifice anything for the happiness of your beloved. Thus love based on feelings where lover is ready to sacrifice anything for the happiness of his beloved then undoubtedly 55 it is a True Love. But before I stop I must say there are many other symptoms for true love moreover I believe all above points are not necessary for true love. May be situation is different and lover is not able to sacrifice something or like that but this situation would never occur if love is true from both sides. 56 22.Incomplete without You I had got everything I needed. I had job offers at that time. There was no scarcity of anything. In spite of all those conditions whenever I considered myself apart from her I felt emptiness in my life. It seemed to me as that life was incomplete without you. I loved her deep inside my heart. My statements at specific point of time in the diary “My University Days”, my poetry and my SMSs which I had sent her, were the proofs of my deep feelings; my love for her. Although I loved her so dearly even then I got no response from her side. Each time I tried to approach her I got only disappointments. I put my best efforts to have her in my life but unfortunately I couldn’t do that. Without you it’s all loneliness. I felt your presence all around myself. You are my goal. I just want to achieve you forgetting everything. You are my primary goal. Without you this life would be incomplete, unsuccessful. A just thought of living without you filled me with sorrow, sadness, hurts the feelings to a greater extent. Really this life is incomplete without you. If I couldn’t marry you then I would go with plan B. I would go for research and wouldn’t marry at all. In fact, how could I marry without you, you had rendered my heart useless. You had occupied it wholly leaving no space for anyone. This Life, this Heart is either with you or with no one else. 57 23.Love doesn’t necessitate to be together In this world everybody is having his/her own taste for everything. Let’s apply this to Love. If I like someone, if I love someone then how could I say that the same person would like me, love me in return. Moreover we are in love with that special person so how could we force our likes, love on her/him. When physical beauty or some other characteristic of special ones is the basis of our love story then this is very much pronounced that it is not necessary that special person might like us. And as for as the concept of feelings is concerned, if theory of feelings proposed earlier is true then the other person should have same feelings but she/he might not have realized these feelings else theory is absurd and if you have feelings then it is not necessary that other person have feelings for you. As for as my case is concerned I love her because of feelings not because of her physical beauty or any other characteristics of her. I felt these feelings every time I saw her. Now if this concept of feelings is true then Shivani must have these feelings. But till this date I never received any positive response from her side except what her eyes used to say. So I couldn’t say that she did have feelings for me. Now there are two things either she did have feelings but she hadn’t realized or theory of feelings is just absurd. At this time I can’t comment on this theory because I didn’t know whether she did have feelings or not, moreover if she did then whether she had realized them or not, these are the questions these need to be answered. If theory is absurd 58 then let me give its explanation- Having feelings for someone is all absurd. In real there is nothing like that. It is just an illusion and person is simply trapped in such an illusion and perhaps in the youth age this used to happen. Thus in the first place if it is not both sided then there is no question of marriage and if it… 59 24.She couldn’t understand me In this world everybody complains that other people couldn’t understand them. Today I was also saying the same that she couldn’t understand me but I didn’t have any complaint against her. She exactly knew that I was a serious type of person and I was after her only. Even then she didn’t talk to me despite my best efforts to talk to her. Yes it was a matter of shame for me that I couldn’t talk to her in two and half year. But this could be seen as a positive point and negative point of mine. During this time I couldn’t talk to her that was a symbol that I was a good guy who never dealt with girls before this. Suppose if there was some other boy then he must had done this job or at least talked to her. My appearance was not so bad that one might not look at me. Moreover I was a good human being. I was not addicted to anything wrong. My tendency was to always help others. Moreover I was mad for her. Even then it seemed that she took me and my love story just a joke and she seemed to be enjoying it. But I didn’t have any complaint against her as girls are continuously distracted by boys so they are less sensitive to the feelings, our society too doesn’t give much freedom to girls. Moreover only God knew about her case, might be she had her own constraints or something else. 60 25.Come Back, Come to the Real Really it’s very enjoyable when we are in between a very nice dream. We want to persist with our dream. We want our dream to become a reality. But after all a dream is a dream and at some point of time it has to shatter down, leaving us with our reality. The greater you are indulged in a dream, the more time you want to spent in the dream and greater it is going to hurt us. So it’s always better to come out of a dream as soon as possible. Today my situation was like a dream. It seemed as I was in a deep slumber and having a very sweet dream. This sweet dream was about my love story. Really when someone is having such a dream then we wouldn’t like to come out of this sweet, exciting dream. But one must keep this in mind that he has to return back to the real and face the reality. My love story was more than such a dream and unfortunately day by day I was getting more serious and getting lost into this. My mind exactly knew that situation but the field of my heart was so strong that it had created an illusion and my mind had been entrapped and confused inside that. My mind exactly knew that there was nothing from her side. She had no feelings for me and all that events which happened were just co-incidents but my heart using my mind had created imaginary situations. To my heart it seemed as she was meant only for me, she did possess feelings for me. Using my mind my heart had manipulated the co-incidents to build an illusion around me. This illusion was such a strong one that I (my mind) 61 exactly knew the situation even then I was unable to come out of that. Many times I thought that I would elaborate her behavior negatively before my heart so that it could come out of that situation. But I kept thinking this for a long time but couldn’t do because my heart never allowed my mind to do that. Moreover I did have some frustration in my mind and I wanted to express it in my poetry but my heart never allowed me to do that. So I was trapped between heart and mind. But anyway one day I need to come out of that illusion otherwise there would be terrific outcomes. Before leaving Shimla I must settle down the topic otherwise consequences would be beyond imagination. I hope I would make it as I had to meet goals of my life. So was I able to do that before leaving Shimla? If not then what are consequences? I am leaving these questions up to you. 62 26.Love is Unending… Why have we feelings for special ones? Love is a spiritual concept. It has mainly three phasesHaving Feelings, Realization of Feelings and Expression of Feelings and the remaining things. Actually feelings are present in the Universe and they enter our system at some special times. The feelings are eternal as they are a form of Energy and thus Universal Law of Conservation of Energy hold for feelings. As we know Spiritual and Material things are inter connected. We also know that material things are mortal, temporary and they have to perish at one point of time but spiritual things are immortal and eternal. So if material and spiritual things are connected that means at one point of time material thing would vanish but corresponding spiritual thing would continue to exist. So when material thing vanishes at that time corresponding spiritual thing is released into the Universe as vibrations and these vibrations stay in the Universe for infinite time. Now these vibrations wait for the manifestation of those material things (obviously there is another spiritual thing apart from the first one which get manifested into material form called Spirit and actually interactions are between spiritual things via material things but we would consider interactions only between material and spiritual things to reduce the complexity of the situation) and once manifested they wait for suitable times when these material things face each other and that time pass through those material bodies and in this way those material objects have these feelings 63 for each other. That means two bodies experiencing feelings must have existed at some point of time earlier (How did these vibrations are created first time? Might be created by God or some other reasons which need to be explored but all this is beyond the scope of this simple love story). The moment when we realize the feelings, our love is complete, is successful. It’s not necessary to express the feelings and rest of the events. They only give materialistic touch to the love and are not required. But yes for the stability of our life i.e. the materialistic beings the expression of feelings and other events are necessary. If we could express our feelings and marry that special person then that’s the best case. Love is having no end. It’s endless. As love is just a feeling and as the feelings can never die or born, they remain intact in the Universe and simply transferred from one to another, so the love has no end, it’s endless. Once you have feelings for someone special, they are most active at some point of time and you can see your love is at peak. But when that special one goes away, initially the feelings get more intensified but whenever people get busy in their life and other things start happening the feelings might become less active. They would be confined to a bit of our heart but these are always there in our heart and never end. Even when we die they don’t die rather escaped into the Universe as vibrations. Most of the time we used to listen people saying that their love ended, their love is over now, died, ended. There is nothing like that. Love is never over, it never dies, never 64 end. People also used to say ‘love hurts a lot’ but I say love never hurts. Lover never demands, have no expectations, no requirements etc. But we i.e. materialistic beings associate our expectations with this spiritual concept. Now when these materialistic expectations, requirements and demands are not met then people are hurt in love, their love is over, love ended. For example in love once you realize your feelings your love is complete, it’s successful and it’s not required that the other person should love you in return. But we are material beings and because of materialistic nature we start expecting love in return. We know ‘Expectation is the root cause of all human sorrows’ so because of this expectation of being loved in return become the source of hurting our feelings and thus pain. Love can’t hurt you but we are hurt because of our expectations. So love is unending. It’s the eternal spiritual concept, producing only positive effects on its environment. 65 27.Let’s see how the Story Ends Moments of success and moments of failure both come into our life. When there is moment of success we are excited, we are happy and when there is failure we are sad, we are disappointed. This phenomenon is something which is programmed into our minds for years according to Deepak Chopra in his book ‘Ageless Body Timeless Mind’. Guru ji says a wise person must not be affected by sorrows, happiness, success or failures. Under any situation we must persist with the situation. Moreover as far as failures are concerned they are sometimes more important than success. When we achieve success in the very first attempt then we couldn’t understand the real meanings of the things. That means the failures are the way which teach us the real meanings of success and related things. They just intensify the desire to achieve something, enhances our efforts. So we must see the failures in our life as lessons for life which help us to live the beautiful life in a better way. Similarly all problems are lessons for life and we must face them. We must not run away from our situation and should face them. As for as my case is concerned, I too had met many failures in life. Only two days ago a big failure came to me when I missed the opportunity to get admission at IIT Ropar in PhD which was a big blow to my dreams. Similarly even in the field of love too, I couldn’t do well at all as I couldn’t even talk to Shivani in more than two years. Whether it was my Research dream or Shivani, I did my best efforts but even then I couldn’t achieve anything. But that didn’t mean 66 that I would give up my efforts. I would continue to persist with my situations and would make best efforts. I hadn’t given up any of the two dreams. Each time I met failure I told myself, “This failure, problem is just a way to teach me, help me understand the real meanings. I have to face the situations, put new efforts again.” and I used to say, “Let’s see how the story ends…” I believe, have a faith in God that when we put best efforts till our last possible situation then success would be ours when the story would end. Otherwise there would be imbalance in the world, some things wouldn’t be justified. After all, the Almighty is balancing everything; he would definitely balance our case also. So don’t worry “Keep putting your best efforts till the last and success would be yours”. 67 28.Love is Pain Somebody has rightly said, “Love is Pain”. Is it really? Yes of course it is, somebody has not said it blindly rather after experiencing it. Actually it is and it is not. First let’s see why love is not pain. I would like to use the concept of spirituality to explain this. Love being a spiritual and it is successful and complete when you realize the feelings of love for somebody. It doesn’t need to be both sided, when you love someone special then you need not be loved back. There is no expectation in love and due to lack of these expectations, love is painless. This is because- “Expectations are the root causes of all human sorrows” –JMD Actually what is sorrow? In first place it is non- fulfillment of our expectations. So when our expectations are not met, we are hurt, we are sad. So mantra for being happy in life is to keep your expectations minimum. The spiritual theory of love is very simple: You have feelings for somebody. You just feel it, realize it and move on. That’s all it needs. No expectation no pain. Now let’s consider the other case- Love is Pain. As I already said yes it is, I wouldn’t move against the well said statement by some other lover. No doubt Love is spiritual but we are materialistic and so we have material nature. Love (spiritual thing) need to be experienced through us (material beings) so we couldn’t get rid of the material nature. Material nature simply means we do expect something when we do something to others. That means 68 when I love somebody I expect to be loved back in the same spirit. But unfortunately that’s not possible in all the cases and this is where pain arises in love. Our expectations broke and we are hurt. More expectations, more the probability of being hurt. I am loving her she must love me, I am wishing her she must wish me, I am caring about her she must care for me, I help her she must help me, I am looking at her she must look back, etc. All these are expectations which have probability to hurt you. Okay so now question arises what to do? Should we expect or not? In first place if you could reduce your expectations then that would be the best case, just keep loving silently. In second place yes you should expect, if your most generic expectations are met in that case you are lucky you have got the best partner otherwise just try to understand your partner and if required compromise. You might be thinking that throughout the book I kept saying that love is spiritual and at the same time I talked about my hurt feelings. So you already know the answer. No doubt love is spiritual but after all my existence is material. I had feelings for her and I expected her to have feelings for me that was the source of hurt feelings for me and like that. 69 29.She’s everywhere Why she’s got everywhere? Really that’s a very interesting question. When people fell in love they used to tell that their beloved one is everywhere. We feel her presence everywhere whether she is actually there or not. Everywhere means all places we visit from morning to evening like hostel, library, office, ground, garden etc. and especially when we are alone. It would be perhaps impossible to answer this question scientifically but spiritually I could explain it. She is love for me and love is a feeling of being connectedness and by feeling this connectedness (link) between us, we could feel love which further means we, by feeling the link with her could feel her presence at any time at any place. If I want to have her with me, I simply need to feel the link between us and she would be with me. That must sound crazy and yes love is crazy but this craziness must be kept under check before you create your own virtual world. I have experienced this craziness to a dangerous level, yes up to creating a virtual world. Thank God, somehow I came out of it. Okay, now there is another questionHow do we recognize her entry into our environment? Another interesting question, I can give spiritual and scientific explanations to this question. First let us understand the question. It simply means that suppose I am sitting in the library in science section and she enters the science section then I could recognize her without looking at her and crazy things like that. In scientific view point this 70 is because we have seen her myriad times. We know her minute details about her dressing sense, her walking style, her talking style, her smile, her gestures, her postures, the way she deals with the things, the way she react to me and so on. Now when any of her characteristic matches with the already present details in our mind then we could predict her presence in our environment. When she enters into our environment (say enter into science section or comes out of book section) without looking at her I could tell that it was she. It is obvious that for this explanation to work, she must be in our view because we get some signals then our mind do pattern matching and predicts the output. In spiritual terms perhaps these are the feelings which do this trick. I used to see her every time she enters science section. In fact I must say I used to see only her when she entered my environment using the same funda. We are taking questions so let us take one more interesting question. What is the difference between like and love? When some trait/quality of some object is of your interest then you like it e.g. you go for shopping, there are many kind of dresses but you choose those that matches your interest and thus you like them. On the other hand when you are drawn towards something without any logic, you feel connected and happy around that object, and it’s a feeling that connects you with that object then it’s your love for that particular object e.g. relation between mother and child. So liking something is based on physical traits and loving something is based on feelings. Thus I can like many good girls who have good nature or who looks good 71 but I can love only that girl for whom I have feelings. I hope I made sense to you. Moreover Buddha has very beautifully differentiated like and love by the statement:- When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. 72 30.Love and Sex Before you develop your own thoughts over this topic let me make it clear to you that there is no connection between these two terms at all. Just hold on, I would return with explanation. If I would have published this book during my MCA then I must not have included this chapter in this book at all. But when I moved around from Indore, Noida to Delhi then I came to know the modern definition of Love. Many great people have skipped this topic from their discussion because of its controversial nature. I have heard (not sure if true) that even Buddha have not talked anything about sex. But when I moved around and saw the modern definition of love then I was hurt, once I had a feeling of guilt also that why had I fallen in love. I am using term modern love instead of love to make a difference between what is called love by the modern society and what is Love (more precisely True Love) in real sense. Let’s understand their meaning separately. True love as already stated, is a feeling of connectedness which holds two persons together (both sided love) or one person on to other (one sided). You feel this connectedness, realize it and that’s all, your love is complete, it is successful. This is purely spiritual concept. On the other hand, sex is based purely on material existence for maintaining the material existence. Sex is a temporary physical need of human beings. Again it’s an energy but I 73 can’t call it negative at all because it is a source of great creativity (where an entirely new being come into existence because of sex) and responsible for sustaining materialism (life). Okay so how are Love and Sex related to each other. According to modern people, love has origin in the physical beauty and it is all about sex. If you want to love someone you have sex with them. This is all absurd and miles away from their definitions. Yes I admit that sex is part of life (at max I can say inseparable part of life) but it is not everything. When two material beings (persons) come close to each other there is a probability of having sex between them depending upon their belief systems, because of their material nature (more precisely human nature). If it happens then where Love is at all, sex was their physical need and when they came close to each other and when their beliefs were in harmony they had it. So it is quite clear that Love is spiritual concept and sex is material concept, having no connection between them. Let’s take the example of prostitutes. People have their physical needs (because of their material nature) and they are going to them to satisfy it. Now tell me where is love here. When physical beauty is the only basis of your love then definitely it is not true love and it would definitely end up in having sex and you can’t call it love. People has spoiled the definition of love. When I saw all this, really it hurt me a lot. Let’s discuss one extreme case of Love. You love somebody, you have true feelings and because of that you come close to that person and then you might have sex. Now again you had sex not because of love but because of 74 your human nature, yes love brought you close and that’s it, whatever happened beyond that was only because of material nature because it would happen even with the strangers brought together. Some people have sex outside their marriage (means after marriage, with someone other than spouse) and then call it love. Actually friends this is not love at all rather their sexual tendency (I am not getting proper word for it) is not satisfied with their partner (or might be something else) and they are going beyond our beliefs and having illegal affair so to make it legal they call it love and thereby further spoiling pure and true spiritual concept like Love. One more interesting news, we come to listen is something like this- a married person run away with lover/beloved. What is this? If it was about love then that person must have stayed with spouse otherwise he/she must have quitted gracefully instead of running like this. One word which is closely related with the TRUE LOVE is SACRIFICE. True lovers can even sacrifice their love to keep the things in order. But when people do things out of order that simply means that they are doing it for sex and there is nothing like love. They are just trying to hide the illegal work. Now you might have guessed why people run away like above case, I am leaving it to you. Look if people who are in love and have sex with their partner then this happens according to their mutual consent (or whatever it is), that’s fine. My only point is that when people have sex and call it love then that’s wrong because Love and Sex are two entirely different things. I hope I made sense. 75 31.Love is a Journey Love is not a destination rather Love is a journey. Love is a feeling of someone being special to us (it’s not necessary that we are also special for that person). Until we realize these feelings, our love is more active. Here I am going to answer another interesting questionWhy Love diminishes after marriage? People often complain that their partner loves less than before marriage. Look I was not lucky enough to reach up to marriage but I could still answer it by being thoughtful using feelings after all now I am a Love Guru (hahaaa…). When two lovers get married, many things come into picture like their responsibilities towards each other, their parents, society and their problems gets triple etc. All these things occupy huge space in their mind and they become busy with these things in their head. They get little time to pay attention towards their feelings for each other or to feel their love. No doubt feelings are still there, holding them together but because of marriage their mind is over casted by other things around and they have got a little time to realize their feelings. Technically you could say that their love has become less active or they love each other less than before marriage. So question arises, for keeping our love active for the life time, should we not marry whom we love? The answer to this question is straightly yes, we should marry our beloved one. There are two major reasons for this. First: Life do have problems and we face bad times but this is where love should play its role. They should face 76 everything with the energy of love. Second: people have wrong mentality about love. People think in love two persons have feelings, they realize it, express it, marry each other and that’s all. That’s success of love and happy ending of love. But this is not like that. Love is endless, how it could come to an end. It’s not a final destination, not a target that you could reach and finish. Marriage is only an achievement or milestone in the journey of love but it’s never the destination, end of love. We have feelings for someone and we would continue to feel these feelings till the very end of our life. Now days the mentality of people about the marriage and love is producing gaps in their love. So if you are not able to marry your beloved in that case you would be able to feel this sea of feelings till the end of life with more intensely and then this special type of journey would become more enjoyable in its own sense. This chapter is dedicated to all those lovers who due to some reasons couldn’t meet their beloved one including myself. We would enjoy this journey throughout our life with its intensity increasing at its each step. 77 32.Love is Beyond Madness and Logic We often come to listen that he/she is mad in love but I believe love is beyond madness. Generally we can understand most of things using logic/mind but love is beyond logic, we can’t get it with logic. Okay so first take logic, it is our ability to prove or to disprove the existence of things using facts. And what is Love? It is a feeling of connectedness. Feeling is a spiritual concept and could not be explained with logic, it is beyond science. In first place it is difficult to tell what is a feeling actually. Then how feeling holds things together is again a mystery. Thus the whole concept of Love could not be explained with science because of its spiritual nature and thus it is beyond logic. Now take the madness. First let’s understand what Madness is. Madness is an abnormal human behavior. Yes love is abnormal. In love all things are elevated to life and a person in love is able to talk to everything whether it is animate or inanimate (I do this craziness sometimes). This is not normal thing. Similarly there are many examples to show that a person in love is different, different than the average human. Thus love is an abnormal behavior exhibited by some blessed souls; in this way it is one form of madness. It is generally even beyond that. Mad people generally forget their identity, their duties etc. but never forget to eat, sleep and generally don’t hurt themselves. On the other hand people in love sometimes just give up eating, sleeping and do hurt themselves. This is strange and one step ahead 78 of madness. That’s why I say Love is beyond madness and mind. 79 33.It’s Difficult to Persist In this world it is always easy to start something but it very difficult to persist with that. Take one example people start some business then most of people simply close that business when they see hard time in that. Guruji says that happiness and sadness are all part of life and complementary to each other. You could not enjoy happiness without sadness. Happiness is only because of sadness and vice versa. It’s sadness which help us to realize the true meaning of happiness. So you have to face every up and down in business to be a successful businessman. Similarly suppose you want to qualify UGC NET exam then it is always easy to start the preparation and take the test. If you qualify in first one then you are lucky and extraordinary but generally this doesn’t happen. Many students want to qualify this exam but most of them either quit after some failures or they don’t put their continuous best effort. It is difficult to face the failures (hard time) and continuously put best efforts. Don’t think I am only saying things I have practiced this idea in life. I prepared for four years for JRF while working in the industry and academics, and utilized all that time which I could get and finally qualified JRF after many failures. So this was general idea that in this world it is always easy to start with something but difficult to persist with that task. Similar is the case with Love. It’s easy to fall in love with someone, in fact everybody does fall in love with someone special but people just quit when the hard time comes. Love is pain so 80 when they confront this aspect of love they simply quit. For example one sided love, distant love etc. are full of pain so when people fall into this situation they simply quit. I must say this was not a true love moreover they haven’t enjoyed the true meanings of love. Somebody has rightly said that love is pain but I must extend this to say ‘Love is incomplete without pain’. If you don’t have pain in love then perhaps you haven’t had the true excitement of love that you could have in it. Talking about my case I have felt a lot, I have enjoyed it a lot and still enjoying this infinite sea of feelings. Today I feel I have started loving these feelings more than Shivani. I have persisted in love and came out after burning in the fire of love. I have felt these emotions to the deepest level and because of that I was able to write two books carrying my experiences and my feelings. Really I feel blessed to have these wonderful feelings. Currently I have given up to approach her and left everything with the Almighty. Everything is accepted to me. If I could have her in my life that would be the best case otherwise no problem. I would stay unmarried and would continue the journey of my dreams alone. Perhaps I have reached in the state mentioned by the following statement from the movie ‘Namaste London’- ‘Ishq di mere mitra pehchaan ki mit jave jadon jid apnan di’ (Asali pyar ka matlab hasil karna nahi hota). 81 34.My Love Story in Nutshell… After completion of my graduation when I went to HPU Shimla, I told myself not to get distracted and be focused towards the realization of my dreams. I told myself to remember Sir Pradeep Thakur’s statement- ‘Don’t run behind things, just do something great that things would run after you.’ I never paid attention to girls and truly speaking I was afraid of them. If any girl asks me something then I try to reply in yes or no. I used to escape their confrontations and yes I was afraid of facing them. I was unaware of Love and girls. I believe it to be absurd and time wasting thing. Then at the beginning of second semester, I met Shivani at Love Point and felt the strong connection with her. I could not understand all this at that time. After all by that time I never used to pay attention towards the girls and used to skip their confrontations. So being unaware of this situation, I termed it an experiment of personality improvement. Then I saw her at the same place even the second time and later I found her sitting just before me in the library and this was the place where my love story progressed. I used to line her in the library and in campus myriad times. After around one year, I decided to propose here and approached her with same intention. But she shattered my heart all in small-small pieces and denied to even talk to me. Up to this point I thought it as only an experiment to improve my interaction skills. After being denied to even talk, I realized that I was in Love with 82 Shivani. She was always around me but never talked to me. She was around me for about two and half year but I couldn’t even talk to her. So during this journey I kept feeling the strong connection with her more and more intensely. Moreover failure to talk to her and her rejection kept pinching me. I tried to express my situation to my friends but neither I could explain it nor they could ever understand this ‘sea of feelings’. So I turned to express myself as poems and later this book and this is how a simple person became a lover, a writer, a poet etc. Then I approached her the second time also. After the first attempt to propose Shivani, friends told me that for such matter we need to take a systematic approach. So I approached her using a small excuse of asking for a ball pen in the library but she denied to give her ball pen. The consequences of both these attempts were drastic for me but at the same time increased the surge in the waves of feelings in the sea of my love for Shivani. I kept expressing my feelings into poems which resulted in my poetry book ‘My Feelings My Poetry’. We used to sit around one pillar in library but still I couldn’t even talk to her and she went away from me just before my eyes, leaving behind a huge sea of love. I thought I would forget her when I would leave HPU but that was my mistake. I tried to forget her many times but failed to do so and at the same time the feelings for her got intensified. When failed to express my feelings face to face, I expressed using SMSs. But I never got a positive response. I was attracted to Shivani only and only because of feelings of strong connectedness. When I met her the first time I had a feeling that we have a strong old 83 connection and I kept feeling this connection each time she came in front of me. These feelings are the only basis of my love story and not any physical traits of her personality and that’s why it’s my TRUE LOVE for her. I tried to express myself through all means but no positive outcome. I sent her SMSs, called on her number once, tried to talk to her face to face, tried to contact through social media and I had also sent relationship request to her parents for marriage but all failed. So now the love story is more than five years old. She’s still unmarried so still there is some probability. My heart says, “She’s meant only for me and I am only for her”. But for mind, it seems all impossible. After all these attempts it seems she doesn’t like me but yes she is unmarried so some chances are yet there. Last attempts to approach her was through whatsApp and Facebook but even these attempts failed as I was either got blocked or got feedback through third partied for not disturbing her. Really this was very hurting to me so I decided to give up and not to disturb her again. It’s okay if she is happy without me, after all this is what I want. My good wishes are always with her. I have left everything with the God. She be happy with me or without me that’s my only wish. As for as my case is concerned I have decided to stay unmarried. I will wait for her at least until she would get married and after that I would stay unmarried and would be researcher, poet and writer (if survived). 84 35.Important Events of My Love Story Here I will cite some incidents of my love story which are not covered in the remaining chapters. There are many incidents which I have written in my diary but it won’t be possible to cite them all here. Moreover my heart doesn’t allow me to present everything before the public. Here are some1. How I got her mobile number? One friend of mine was her classmate. Actually he belongs to my neighboring village. He provided me her number. When he gave me her number, he asked me to call her and propose her but I denied to do so. I told him that genuine people didn’t do like that. I told him that I would meet her face to face and then I would express my feelings. 2. How I got her photos? Again it was the same friend who gave me her photos. 3. How I got her DOB? She was healthy at that time and I was thin. So my friends used to say she is older to me. I never thought like that but yes I want to know her date of birth. So one day I visited her department and found her DOB on the notice board. 4. How did I compare my height against her? As for as her physical look is concerned she was a tall and healthy girl. So my friends used to say that she is taller than me but I know there was nothing like that. It was a very 85 nice event when I compared my height against her. In HPU Shimla library the sitting capacity is very less as compared with the number students who used to come to study in library so we (students) have to line up outside the library to get our favorite seat (same fixed seat) early in the morning. Moreover entry in library is also controlled by guards. They sent 10-10 boys and girls turn by turn. One day both of us were lined up there. When I reached near entry gate, guard stopped me as number of students to be allowed were completed. So now I was at the head of boys queue at the entry gate. Then guard allowed girls to enter and as the number to be allowed completed, he stopped their queue. I was on head of boys queue. Now guess who was at the head of girls queue. Yes of course it was Shivani. We faced each other by a distance of one or two feet near the entry gate for about two-three seconds. And this much time was sufficient for me to have a glance of her eyes and compare my height against her. She was approximately up to my ears. This is how I compared my height against her. 5. I wanted to offer her a seat in auditorium. One day some function was running in the auditorium and I was sitting there with my friend. The auditorium was humming with music and the crowd. There was no empty seat. As I saw her there standing, first I clicked some photos of her and then I wanted to offer my seat to her. She also noticed me there. Now I was very afraid of offering seat to her. I tried but I couldn’t offer her seat. Luckily she got a seat in just next row to me and close to me. So again I 86 clicked many snaps of her and obviously not front pose rather side pose. 6. Last meeting It was her second last day in HPU Shimla (I guess according to information available). I was on the Mall Road Shimla, near Scandal Point with my friends when she was also coming with her friends from the opposite side. Both of us noticed each other. I followed her and wanted to talk to her but at the same time I was afraid also. It was first time when any of my friends encouraged me to talk to her. It was Navneet who told me that I would not get any chance to talk to her so go and talk. She entered in ATM and all her friends came aside except one who was also drawing money there. So with an excuse of drawing money I went there and queued up there. There were two queues. I stood in the same queue in which she was standing. I knew she was aware of my existence there and she was expecting me to follow her. I was strongly thinking that she would definitely look back for me. And yes she did look back and found me just behind her. Might be she have given me opportunity to talk to her as she was alone there and all her friends were sitting one side near Scandal Point. Now when she looked back, her expressions looked blank and I discarded the idea to talk to her, truly speaking I was afraid also. Might be she was also afraid and uncomfortable. Really I was an idiot to miss this opportunity. Then she left the Ridge and went to Tibetan market. I wanted to follow her but couldn’t. Then thought I would definitely talk to her when I would face her again in the market but I couldn’t face her again. Later my friend Dinesh who used to be with 87 me in library was also in the lower market but not with me. He found her twice in the lower market and boarded the same bus with her back to University. He told me that all the three time she was looking with wide open eyes for you. Moreover there was one more chance to meet her but I missed because I thought I wouldn’t be able to face her. It was when I was working in the Impetus InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. in NOIDA. I received a letter from HPU. I was invited to receive gold medal. Don’t get confused, in MCA I was not in first place and I don’t know about my number in the final merit but I attended one another one year course in French in HPU where I had topped and I was invited to receive gold medal from the President Pranab Mukherjee. By then many things have already happened to me and latest event was that she had blocked me on the whatsApp. She was also invited in the function after all she was topper in her department. I wanted to see her but I felt exhausted to face her and didn’t attend that function. Yes I made another mistake by losing this opportunity. My heart never pardoned my mind for this event. 7. I wanted to offer Prasada It was Sunday and I had gone to the Sankat Mochan temple. When I returned back to library I started distributing prasada to my friends. Shivani was also there along with her friend Anita who also knew me. So somehow I distributed it to Anita also. I wanted to distribute prasada to Shivani also but first I was afraid to do so and second somewhere in my mind I thought it would 88 not be appropriate to use God’s name to approach her. She must had taken it if I had given it to her because how she could reject prasada. So all these ideas in my mind abstained me from offering prasada to her. Even Anita asked me to offer her prasada. But I was afraid and denied to do so. This was another mistake which I made. Most of the time when she was close to me in the library, I failed to approach her because I kept thinking that I might be disturbing her from her studies. No doubt I loved her but at the same time I didn’t want to disturb her. Another mistake which I kept doing for the time she was around me in library and I believe I am still doing the same mistake. 8. Never prayed to have her in my life Except one-two worst circumstances when I prayed God to have her in my life, I never asked the God to do so. Again crazy idea was running behind it. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have faith in the God. I wanted to have her in my life naturally, when both of us have the same feelings for each other. I believe the God can do anything, any miracle. But I thought every person has her own taste, it might be possible that she didn’t like me at all. So I didn’t want to force up on her to love me. This was another one mistake. 9. Yes I wept for her Three things usually made me cry and one is Shivani. It’s difficult when and how it happens but yes sometimes it happens. 10. My seat in Library 89 In first semester I used to sit in 24 Hour section but it was too crowded so decided to change it in the second semester. I decided to sit in the Science section in second semester. I met Shivani in second semester also. Initially I used to sit in lower part of Science section and she used to sit in upper part exactly at right angle to me. I sat there for around two months then changed my location closer to her. In the third semester I started coming to library before her and selected my seat in such a way that I could see her in all cases wherever she would sit. Now I was sitting in upper part of Science section on a table behind her earlier table. But when she came to library she chose to sit around the same pillar around which I was sitting with both of us facing away from that huge pillar and spent rest two years at the same table with she sitting on other side of pillar. 11. When She sat just before me One day after lunch someone else occupied her seat and she shared seat with her friend just before me on the table next to my table and facing my side. When she sat there I was not sitting on my table. When I returned to my seat and before I sat, we had an eye clash. I noticed her changing face expressions. She was feeling uncomfortable and little bit stressed. I couldn’t see her stressed. I was happy to see her just before my table and wanted to continue to see her but at the same time I didn’t want to disturb her. My presence disturbed her so I decided to leave that seat before I could even sit there. Moreover my senior was sitting on my seat in my absence and he has left his books there. So I got an excuse to leave the seat. Truly speaking I was afraid 90 to face her also. I always wanted to see her but only I wanted to look into her eyes and didn’t want her to look back except one eye clash. So with this I left my seat and committed another mistake. So now I sat on lower part of Science section just before her eyes. As I left the seat and sat on lower part of section, her eyes looked for me; her eyes wanted to know where had I gone. I was obviously looking her doing all this and again we had an eye clash and that was much for me. There was one another time when she sat close to me. She sat on a table right to me, just next to my table with her friend. I didn’t use to look any other girl except her and used to keep my eyes grounded only on my book so I couldn’t even notice her for a long time. 12. Waited at University gate during exam times She didn’t use to come to library during exam times so in order to have her glance I used to go to University gate and wait there for her to come to take exam and sometimes for her to get back to hostel after the exam. I used to feel some uneasiness without seeing her for a long time so sometimes follow her exam timings to see her. One interesting thing is that I used to stand on one corner so that only I could see her and not she could see me (another mistake). Second interesting thing is that I had written one poem on University gate while waiting for her. 13. She was damn beautiful OR First close view 91 When I came to Science section, for about two months I continued to sit at the same place, exactly right angle to her but on the lower floor of Science section. One day some seats were vacant on the upper floor in the evening and it was cold on the lower floor. So I got an opportunity to go to upper floor and to sit near her. Actually I was afraid to sit close to her and even in her line of sight. But on that day Navneet was also sitting there and he encouraged me to sit close to her and in sight. But while being afraid, I could sit on third table in front of her but on the outer line so that she was exactly before my eyes at some angle. By that time she had realized that I used to see her. This was the first time when I saw her so closely (distance of three tables). Before this it was difficult to see her from lower floor along the sun light and in campus too I could see her only while moving. Moreover I could hardly see her more than two seconds in one go. But that day I have got an opportunity to see her from a close distance. It’s difficult to describe her beauty, she was no less than my favorite actress Katreena and I agreed that she was ‘Harkuchh’ (that means ultimate. This word is very frequently used in HPU). I couldn’t sit there for much time because as I sat there she immediately noticed me. Then I felt as she was uncomfortable in my presence. I couldn’t see her in sorrow or any problem. My heart couldn’t tolerate this situation as it was I who has created problem to her. So I had to give up the joy of feeling her beauty against the discomfort caused to her by my presence. So immediately after sitting there and realizing that I changed my seat and sat out of sight to 92 her. Thus that was the first close view and unfortunately last too, as I couldn’t find such opportunity again. 93 36.The End… Love is eternal, it’s having no end. Yes one can stop feeling these feelings by framing/having some field around mind but that doesn’t mean love has ended that simply mean one has made one’s mind busy somewhere else. That means one has taken the attention off from these feelings. So it might appear that Love has ended but actually it never does. I started with an experiment so you might be interested to know the end result. Love has no end but an experiment does have. According to the Love Theory that I have proposed, my love story is successful. According to world, my love story is a failure. I must say don’t say like this, I believe still she’s unmarried and there is little probability… If I remember the very start of this experiment then the objective was to talk to a girl confidently. So if consider this as objective of experiment then I believe the experiment was almost successful since I approached her and tried to talk to her. Moreover today I can talk to any girl confidently so that experiment seems to be successful. Okay all that fancy things are one side, what is my current status, you might be interested in that. If it is like that then in short I want to say that I have left everything to the Almighty. As for as her case is concerned, it seems that she doesn’t love me at all. As for as my case is concerned I have given up. I have given up to approach her to express my love for her but I have not given up to love her, in fact that is beyond my control. My heart says that we are born 94 for each other. Whatever are the current circumstances one day we would be together and that’ all. For my mind, it seems impossible to have her in my life. I have given up to try to approach her and left everything with ‘Mata Rani’. I have faith and any result is accepted to me. If she is happy without me then that’s fine with me. She be happy, should get everything she wants, these are my wishes for her. As for as my case is concerned I can face anything. No doubt this life would be beautiful with her but even without her this life would not be less interesting. Without her, I would escape from India and I would keep playing with these feelings and I would be known as a writer, a poet and a scientist (if survived). So yes I am waiting for her, waiting silently… She is doing research and unmarried so still there is some hope. I hope she would read this book one day and it wouldn’t be too late by then. 95 37.Message for Shivani Baby! I Love You… If you could feel my love from this statement then that’s great otherwise I won’t be able to express this ‘sea of feelings’ for you. I am sorry I couldn’t express my love for you although I tried everything but couldn’t succeed. Right now I am not expecting anything from you. If you could be part of my life then that would be the best case of my life otherwise what can I do, that’s okay. After all your life, your choice. You be happy forever with me or without me that’s my only wish. I have given up approaching you but that doesn’t mean that I have stopped loving you, in fact that’s beyond my control otherwise I must have done it much ago. Baby! Sometimes I think I am not a suitable match for you and you might get sorrow with me. I want you to stay happy all the time so I think you must not marry me. There are many reasons that make me think like this. I want to share these with you so that if you ever think of saying ‘YES’ to me then you should be aware of these (this is really crazy, even my mind believes in the theory of my heart…hahahaa). Reasons that make me unsuitable match for you1. Baby! I have lost my hair and in coming time I could be completely bald. You are gorgeous; you are perfect so deserve someone better than me, a handsome dude. 2. I am a serious and boring person (according to people) so with me your life might become serious and boring. I 96 want you to be happy all the time so I am not suitable for you. 3. Life is tough. People have to face up and downs. With me obviously you too have to face some hard time. I can’t see you struggling with life. So while out of sight, I will think that you are happy. 4. I am not rich so I won’t be able to get you luxurious life. 5. I am a straight forward person (according to people) but for me these are my principles which I follow to be on path to become a good human being one day. Whatever I am saying i.e. being good is a fancy term in modern days. People like share good things but never follow them. Similarly we read good things in books and about characters but it is very difficult to follow them, become a character like that in this modern world. Because following them Life becomes hard and generally we don’t like hard life. Baby! Don’t take it negatively. All I mean is that I am on a path to become a good human being so if you become my life partner then obviously even your life would be affected. 6. I feel I am not a normal human being. I feel I am a blessed soul (blessed by parents, teachers and the Almighty). I am here for some higher purpose (don’t know what is that so far). It might affect your life if your nature doesn’t match mine. 7. Now days, the love stories seem to be in a pathetic condition. People love and get separated. Moreover there are many bad aspects that people have added to love just like the religion. I don’t want to name them 97 along with my love story. Baby! I can’t see all this happening to my love story. I can live without you but can’t see all this happening to my love story. 8. Love is God. I have realized this statement in my love story. I have started seeing God in you. For me your status has ascended to a very high level. Now I can’t match that level… 9. Are you my imagination? I never talked to you, I don’t know much about you and more interestingly I have not even seen you properly from close. Might be, it is only my imagination about a dream girl which seemed to be manifested as you. So am I elaborating things about you or about my imagination? 10. Once we get something, we forget its value. We forget how much effort we have put, how we have even wept to get that thing and then take that thing as granted once we have it. But if we don’t get what we want then continuously we put our best efforts and day by day desire to have that thing increases. If we fail to have that thing in life then we look at that thing with respect for the whole life. This is a general human tendency about things (animate as well as inanimate). Similar situation can occur even in love. I don’t want this principle to apply to my love story. I can live without you but I don’t want to see all these things happening to my love story. 11. Etc. Many such points. Baby! I want but I don’t want to be with you. I have a ‘huge sea of feelings’ for you and my books contain only a fraction of it (you can say only 5%). I am not a writer 98 (although I might become one after publishing this book) thus it is possible that I might not have been able to express my feelings properly. So I want you to forgive me for any mistake I have made in handling my feelings and for publishing my feelings, I was helpless and no other way to express my feelings with you. I want to thank you for these experiences, feelings, positive energy of love that have transformed my life completely and acting as my motivation. If you have no feelings for me then that’s fine, it’s not a problem. I can understand if one person like other that doesn’t mean reverse would happen (if you don’t like me); sometimes we do have some constraints and we are not able to do what we want (if there is some constraint at your end); might be I was not able to approach you with guts (sorry baby! You can’t expect much from a guy with nature and character like mine); etc. So if the condition is something like that then I can only wish that things should turn according to your wish and you be happy. After reading this book, what are you thinking? By chance, after reading this book if you are in confusion (thinking) whether to say YES to me or not then let me help you out (if you are not thinking like that then you could skip this paragraph). If you feel for me as I feel for you then yes you can say YES to me. Else do not say YES to me because of thinking that Vinod has true love for me and has written couple of books for me. Baby! In the end, I would like to say that…………………….. I Love You… Whatever I have written above, just forget about all this. If you also love me 99 then we could face anything in life with the ‘energy of love’. I have written all this to just keep moving without you and condole my burning heart… I Love You, Baby! Be Happy! Yours only Vinod 100 PS: Conclusions Some stories are meant to remain incomplete because the message that they want to teach, can be taught by their being incomplete. Yes, now it's over. After a long journey of seven years, now it feels like living in some illusion. She has got married, obviously to someone else. So I thought of, at least completing the story. Truly speaking, I see God in Her. She was the angle of God who has come to transform my life towards positivity, to a new direction,.... She did her job, without even talking, and just left and that's it. I hope you enjoyed and got some glimpses of true love from my incomplete, one sided and painful love story... Thanks Vinod To know more about author, visit his website: https://sites.google.com/site/jmdvinodjmd/ Or mail him: jmdvinodjmd@gmail.com Cove page by: While doing his masters from HPU Shimla, author fell in Love with one special girl. The basis of this Love was only feelings and that’s why it was a True Love of author for that special girl. Unfortunately it was one sided Love. Author continuously felt the pain of one sided love story and its different aspects. Being unable to express his situation to his friends and to that special girl, he started writing his feelings and thoughts as poems and writings in his diary. This turned a simple person into a poet, a writer and something more than that. In this book author has expressed his love story through his experiences with True Love. This is a non-fiction book, especially for those who felt True Love for someone special. Shivani Joshi View publication stats

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