LOVE -- THAT FLEETING VISITATION OF THE DIVINE IN THE SUBTLE SUBLIME SOUL

LOVE -- THAT FLEETING VISITATION OF THE DIVINE IN THE SUBTLE SUBLIME SOUL

Sublimity of love in the purest sense, free of earthly defilement and inspiring heavenly feelings, is rare in the world of men. Such a couple can scarce meet in this incongruous world of limiting occasions. Such a love can scarce flow unimpeded by societal restrictions. Such a love must remain unrequited in flesh and form save in image held hard in unbroken memory of the beloved, ever deepening, dissolving, resolving unto fresher dreams that almost touch Reality. Of such a stuff is the divine duo Radha-Krishna, separating only to unite, uniting only to separate in an unceasing flow of inconceivable distinct indistinctness [Achintya bhedaabhed]. Such a love visits us ordinary souls as well in fleeting moments of sublimity when the coarse confines of the flesh have given way before the rapturous rise of the soul and the ecstatic being is carried through limpid spaces to lodge in the deepest love of the heart. Such a symphony is heard even today in the thoroughfares of life but go unheeded by most. Those that still all else save the desire of love can yet listen to its lilting tunes in the enveloping environs, in the meadows and the greens, in the setting sun's even-glow and in the depths of their hearts 💕 where roses bloom, violets blossom and the crust of one's being touches its core. Rare, indeed, but such a love yet alights on the one who craves but it and none else. But few, few alas, feel the pulsations of such a love!

Written by Sugata Bose