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    A blog post

http://gyanaknowledge.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/i-love-you/ made me to write on the topic of love again. The author of the blog is a beautiful young woman who has elaborately written on the intricate subject of love and probably, this is the most debated post on her blog. To be brief she has wondered why people fall in love. She finds no logic in being in love.

        In my post ‘nursing a broken heart’

         http://navparivartan.blogspot.com/2010/04/nursing-broken-heart.html I have admitted that I had varying opinion about love. But one thing I always realised, love is an emotion and emotions have no logic. It’s easy to condemn an emotion but hard to understand. Indeed feeling of love is also a result of chemical reactions inside human body in the form of secretion of hormones and carrying of massages through synapses but its not judicious to name it a mere chemical reaction. A chemist once told to his crying wife, मुझे रो कर मत दिखाओ ये आंसू आखिर हैं ही क्या? चुटकी भर नमक थोडा सा पोटाशियम क्लोराइड और कुछ बूंदे पानी.” (Don’t show me the tears, after all what the tears are, a pinch of common salt, little potassium chloride and few drops of water)

       I remember when an educated gentle man was pissing in our volley ball court in sheer Indian style, when I caught him from collar, he argued, “What after all urine constitute! Some salts and water.” He was only tamed when I expressed my willingness to spray those salts on his bed.

     both the incidents have same thing, conflict between emotions and logic. I think emotions should not be weighed in the scale of logic, there is nothing unusual in falling in love and committing same mistake twice, thrice or more is as usual. And  not falling in love is not unusual but terming other's emotion as nonsense is.

       If you ask a lover, the reply will be some thing like this

कुछ न पूछिए कि क्या है इश्क, जान का रोग है बला है इश्क!

सच अगर पूछो, तो खुदा है इश्क!!