With the beginning of each dawn as we open the eyes
to the miracle of a new day with its unlimited power of living something awesomely
unexpected, we are being filled with reverence and awe at the sight of a
magnificent creation. With the blade of tender grass to the delicate leafs of
the trees splendidly swaying as the cool breeze sweep across them and infuses
refreshing spirit in all the creation. A person living his/her each passing
moment of life to the full cannot evade or be blind to such marvels of life and
creation. The beginning of each new day dawn holds within it the conclusion of
how the day is going to end. The awesome ending of the day depends on the
awesome beginning of the life at dawn.
Viewing the creation with tender eyes as each new
day dawns with its bubbling life, one will realize that each living creature
pops up with tender smiles to greet and wish you the best for the day.
Moreover, a person who is fully alive to
the spirit of life can never find a reason for which one is so madly taken-up
or be in love with the amazing sight of the morning with all creation wishing life.
One can never find a true reason why the universes with all its creatures wish
him/her life in its fullness. We might be able to invent some reasons with our
cunning minds but those reasons are baseless for it becomes the creation of
mind for its egoistic survival. If one can find some reasons, it will only
reveal that he/she is not fully awaken to the spirit of life. For true love has
no reason whatsoever. It is just love. To live a life of love is to live in
total communion with the spirit of life which is love in its totality or
ultimate. Whereas, to live a life of reason is to fragment life into different
compartments but deep within we are aware that love unites and reason divides.
We are intoxicated with the paralyzing idea that in
order to love a person we must know him/her first. Here, our knowing becomes
the criterion to love. But, is it really true that one needs reason to love or
have we just accepted it as facts because it has been told to us over and over
again by our elders, society or academicians. Can reason be the cause for love?
If it is so, then is it real love? Can love be bought or sold by reason? Love
is beyond reason. Reason cannot be the cause for love for reason is the sole
factor of the division of love. Reason can never love in its ultimate for it
bargains with love. It says if such and such is the case then I will love. For
instance, if you are good to me than I will love you but the moment you fail to
fulfill my expectations I stop loving you. Therefore, all loving with a reason
is no true loving. Loving with a reason puts conditions but love in its
fullness is unconditional. There is no measure to love but love is its sole
measure. One who loves moves beyond
reason and becomes the source of life-giving spring.
When there is a reason for love than that is a
bargained love, a love that can be bought or sold by the price of reason.
Moreover, that which can be bought can also be sold easily or discarded when it
is no longer useful or satisfactory. Hence, where reason exists primarily there
is no place for love. Contrary, where love exists primarily, reason becomes a
secondary thing. However, reason has its place but only after love. It should
be only a part of faculty that comes to play when the ocean of love has invaded
the spirit of reasoning. All reasoning should be the outcome of love. For instance, it is often told that we must
hate sin but not the sinner. It can be well applied that we must love the
sinner first and then help the sinner to overcome his/her sinful acts with the
help of our loving assistance. Love has the uplifting and transforming effect,
whereas, to certain extent reason has similar effect but more so it fosters
cunning stubbornness of justification. Reason helps to justify and makes one
self-righteous. And where there is self-righteous claim, love flies out of the
window for it uses love as a means to enlarge itself either consciously or more
so unconsciously. When it enlarges itself it reduces the wholeness of the other.
Thus we can say that love is life-giving and reason is life-taking.
We all by default want to love and be loved.
However, we often fail in this aspect of our aspirations. It is not that we do
not know how to love, rather we never enquiry what generates in us the desire
to love. Is it that we are lonely and therefore, to cover up that loneliness we
want to love or there might be many other hidden motives that push us to love?
It becomes fundamental to discover the cause of our love because where there is
a cause or reason for love, that love is inevitably going to cause us pain.
Love to be life-giving it should not be based on any cause or reason. Most of
us want to do so much good in our society because we love our society. We want
to help the poor and neglected, widowed and orphan, sick and suffering, down
trodden and broken hearted, and many alike. In many of these cases we might be
driven to do something to uplift them but if we are moved by their pathetic
condition or may be moved by some other reasons than we are certainly going to
end in despair. We will get irritated and depressed when things do not turn out
in our favour. Hence, before we venture out to do any good in our society we
need to be aware of what is that which moves us to think about our society. Is
it seer love or reason?
Romanius Barwa
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