Rahiman dhaga prem ka, mat todo chatkaye,
Tute se phir na jude, jude gaanth pad jaye.
We have read it, by-hearted it when we were in school. And I think, this is very much relevant in everyone's life. Rahim Dasji had told very aptly about the relationship and its delicateness and reasons why should we take care of it without any mistake.
Relationship and the emotions running in it - these are the things which haven't changed over the generations, cultures, religions, regions or nations. There are some blood relations by birth and there are some built up in the course of living the beautiful life. Regardless of their type, some privileged ones [relationships] are flowers of our nurturing true love, faith, trust, care and delicacy, and the result is a single thread blended out of all these different threads with our one life-thread.
And that is what Rahim Dasji had talked about in his Doha. One should take proper care not to do any thing which can cause any breakage in this thread, because once its broken, either its "two threads" or its "one with a knot". We should always make sure that we don't take these flowers for granted, we don't let bad weather take away its charm and keep these flowers away and untouched from ill effects of neighboring flowers/buds irrespective how good or bad they may be.
Well, all said and done or not-done, but why this long post, do we already not know it? "Probably yes", actually "Mostly yes", but then why are we so careless to protect our flower which we nurtured for years, why???
Think .....
Anyways, I haven't written this post just to re-iterate what Rahim Dasji had said years back. I also want to give another optimistic perspective to it after the damage is being done and the flower has lost the charm.
To add to the Rahim's Doha-
Rahiman dhaga prem ka, mat todo chatkaye,
Tute se phir na jude, jude gaanth pad jaye.
Tu Rahi, dil haar na, kitni moti gaanth re,
Le prem ka auzaar, ghisiyo, patli hui jaye.
After all, its life, how much we think, how much we plan, things happen and sometimes the most unfavorable. But that can't be the end of it, or its not that we can't do anything, after all the Human is the most supreme species in this world, lets make good use of ourselves.
In short, as I stated in above 2 lines added to Doha, if there is anything which can undo the damage, which can bring back the old charm to the flower, then its is LOVE, the selfless love, the unconditional love, and nothing but only LOVE.
It has all the strength which can make that "gaanth" (knot) so thin, that the thread of life becomes the same old one.
Life is changing, people are running after their dreams, everyone is ambitious, we want every luxury in our life, we want to achieve huge, we want satisfaction in our life, we want happiness, but do you think all that will be worth if we have lost a few flowers while running. One can achieve all what one wants, we can be individually happy, we can alone achieve success but at the end of if, we need someone whom can we share our happiness with, our success with.
I just want to close this post by saying that, take a pause, read it over again, think and think, you will realize. I know I can face a lot of counter thoughts which may be philosophically right. We can come up with lot of reasons in defending ourselves for knowingly or unknowingly not protecting flowers, but dear, this is life and we should anyhow protect our flowers, and there are no exceptions, period. Life is precious and so are the flowers.
[Dedicating this post to all the flowers in my life]
