Tum Hi Ho (You Are The One)

We all love love stories, don't we? The idyllic romances shown on the big screen swell our hearts with the hope that one day, we too would have a fairy-tale romance.. Despite nursing multiple heartbreaks and tolerating the wounds inflicted by our 'lovers', we remain drunk on the wine of love hoping that one day it would extricate us from our miserable existence. (Read: Wounded in Love?)

Few realize the love they are searching for is not be found in this world. Some of us know this intuitively. This explains why we love being in 'love' more than we love our partners. Love is God. God is Love. When you are in love, the nectar that you feel is actually a tiny taste of what 'true love' really is.

As Srila Prabhupada explains lucidly...

"The basic principle of the living condition is that we have a general tendency to love someone. No one can live without loving some one else. This propensity is present in every living being. The missing piece, however, is where to direct our love so that everyone is included and can be happy. At the present moment, human society teaches one to love his country or family or his personal self, but there is no information on where to direct the loving propensity so that everyone will be happy. We have failed to create peace and harmony in human society, even by such great attempts as the United Nations or our economic and scientific progress, because we have missed this point. That missing point can be found in awakening the our original love for Krishna(God). If we learn how to love Krishna then it is easy to immediately and simultaneously love every living being. It is like pouring water on the root of the tree-all parts of the tree are nourished. Or supplying foodstuffs to the stomach-all parts of the body are nourished. When we are situated in that position we can enjoy a blissful life"

Ultimately all religion boils down to this: love of God....  And this love is more intimate and special than the love of this world, which is just a perverted reflection of this very divine love. This is not a love to be indulged in every Sunday in a church or temple, but a love to be relished every moment of our lives. Faith is required here. You trust your spouses, don't you? Even though they are imperfect beings and many times hurt you with their insensitivity and callousness. Compared to this God is the perfect being and knows the heart of every person in this world. With our welfare always on his mind, even when we think he 'hurts' us, its something very good hidden in it. God wants nothing from us but to share with us the love he has for us...

This lyrics of this soulful track actually extrapolates the deep and all consuming love we need to have for our Lord....

Tum Hi Ho (You Are The One)

Movie: Aashiqui 2

Music: Mithoon

Singer: Arijit Singh

Lyrics

Hum tere bin ab reh nahin sakte
Tere bina kyaa vajood meraa

I can't live without you now,

What's my existence without you..

Tujh se judaa gar ho jaayenge
To khud se hi ho jaayenge judaa

If I get separated from you,

I'll be separated from my own self..

Kyonki tum hi ho
Ab tum hi ho
Zindagi, ab tum hi ho
Chain bhi, meraa dard bhi
Meri aashiqui ab tum hi ho

Because you alone are,

Now you only are,

life. You're my life.

My peace, and my pain,

you alone are my love..

Teraa meraa rishtaa hai kaisaa
Ik pal door gawaaraa nahi
Tere liye har roz hain jeete
Tujh ko diyaa meraa waqt sabhi
Koi lamhaa meraa naa ho tere binaa
Har saans pe naam teraa

How's this relationship of ours,

I don't like distance of even a moment

Every day, I live for you

All my time is for you..

There shouldn't be a moment of mine without you,

There is your name on every breath..

Tere liye hi jiyaa main

Khud ko jo yoon de diya hai

Teri wafaa ne mujh ko sambhaalaa

Saare ghamon ko dil se nikaala

Tere saath mera hai naseeb juDaa

Tujhe paa ke adhoora naa raha

For you, I lived

I have given myself (to you)

Your faith [actually means 'my love for you' here] took care of me

Took all the sorrows from (my) heart

With you my fate is attached,

Getting you, Nothing is incomplete (within me, I got completed)..

Wounded in Love?

Lord Krishna..

Love...this word evokes a myriad of reactions, my lord, in the heart .. a lot many people have been hurt in love, my lord.. We human beings.. not being complete in ourselves look for fulfillment and love from fellow human beings.. everybody wants 'love' from each other but no one has 'any' to give..The result is broken promises, unmet expectations and heartbreak.. for many of us the word 'love' evokes such painful memories and buried resentments that we just want to lock up our hearts and throw the keys in the dustbin.. Painful memories of rejection and heartbreak in love may cause one to stiffen up like a rock, proclaiming love to be a 'weakness' and branding all feelings as 'sentimentality'. Nothing is more tragic than just retreating in your shell and erecting walls to prevent getting hurt in love again...

Love is not a 'lie' and neither it is a 'weakness of the heart'.. Its true courage.. its wings that take you to places you have never seen.. sounds you have never heard.. the nectar you have never tasted.. But then what goes wrong..? Why does every 'fairy tale romance' has an end..? Why can't there be a 'happily ever after' in real life..? 

My Lord Krishna, here you come in the picture.. You are the very essence of love.. an infinite ocean of love and we beings are eternally separated drops of that ocean.. Our very purpose is to love you our Lord.. Being in your remembrance each moment, we are filled with your transcendental love..it just overflows from our heart and transfers to every person we come in touch with.. loving you our lord, makes us capable of loving others.. the true love that wants the best of every being..that recognizes the actual needs of the person..Because your love is so blissful, my lord.. we no-longer 'hanker' for love from fellow beings.. we become self satisfied.. conflicts reduce with our loved ones..heartbreaks vanish.. Its only because we look for love in material relationships that we remain frustrated and resentful forever.. we feed off our loved ones and they feed off us, leaving everybody exhausted and drained in the end.. 

Its only when we recognize the true reservoir of love.. our lord.. that made us.. that is our master, friend, father, son, lover.. everything.. that we can have rid ourselves of the dilemma to 'love' or 'not love'.. O dear Lord, you are love.. you are bliss.. and whoever associates with you basks in that transcendental aura of yours..Bless us lord.. that we love you more and more each day.. n that we may never forget you even for a single second..


Your humble maidservant, always..

*Male and female are the designations of the temporary material body.. According to Vedic literature, all souls are considered to be 'feminine' and the Lord is the lone 'man'. The soul's purpose is to love the lord eternally..For more details please read our spiritual master Prabhupada's translation of the Vedic Literature*

Jai Prabhupada!

Jai Shri Krishna!

O Lord

Lord grant me the good fortune to always be in the shelter of your lotus feet.. Bad times, sorrows and difficulties all become bearable in your presence. O lord fill my heart with love for you and engage my senses always in your service or the service of your devotees. O lord Krishna,all attractive one..give me divine eyes so that wherever I look in this material world..all I see is your eternal form .....
All I listen is your holy name..All I eat is your prasadam..All I smell is the flowers offered to you and All I touch is your lotus feet!

Jai shri Krishna!