Every one of us thinks that Kriya is magical. We are all aware that what we are witnessing is a very rare love story. I myself have read thousands of loves-stories and watched a few hundreds and witnessed a few in my life, but I can say with fair certainty that this one is very very special. But why? Why is it so unique?
The bible offers us a standard to understand love with.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4
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In the Krishna-Pratigya saga, Krishna has always been the lover and Pratigya the beloved. What has made it so wonderful is that the ideal of love has been set very high indeed! Pratigya could never settle for a lesser love and Krishna has proved himself equal to every challenge and every test of love.
Pratigya held out with a an instinctive certitude for a higher and higher offering, because what she had to offer in return was nothing short of complete surrender. And one cannot surrender for anything less complete devotion. And so she waited and so she resisted for the perfect lover.
The Patient Lover:
The most sterling aspect of Krishna's love has been his patience. For a man who thought that the word was his for a clenched fist, he has clenched his teeth, clamped down on his raging aggression and waited for the flower of love to bloom.
Dheere-dheere re mana dheere sab kuch hoye
Maali seeche sau ghada, ritu aaye, phal hoye!
Kabir
The Kind Lover:
When he came home, heart rent with grief to see his Pratigya's face blackened, his actions then were motivated by the purest kindness. No thought for his own distress could take away the instinct to wipe the distress off his beloved face.
The Lover sans Envy:
One of the commonest failings in even the most loving of men is that the can never love a woman as an equal, let alone acknowledge her superiority in any aspect. But Krishna has proved time and time again that he is of different mettle. Whether it is in handing his cell-phone to Pratigya for calling an ambulance or admiring her guts and principals, Krishna is that incomparable lover who never stoops so low as to compare himself. Such self-belief is so rare!
The Discreet Lover:
Krishna started off as a boastful lover. Who was as much in love with the idea of a conquest as he was in love itself. Through the test of repeated hurt and humiliation his love has emerged pure. Pure of any external pressures. When social ridicule or taunts ceased to matter to him, was when he realized the true depth and absoluteness of his love.
The Humble Lover:
The same self-proud man who declared once that a woman was an acquisition that was to be conquered and broken-into one's life, acknowledged that he was powerless in the face of love. "Pharak hai, hum mein tum mein, Pharak hai" How much knowledge and humility (and perversely pride too!)was there in that one sentence! He knew that love had made him a different man and that only love can make you sacrifice things that simple duty cannot.
The Polite Lover:
I don't need to list the occasions of Krishna's rudeness or his brash belief that love can be forced or that love can make-do without the utmost respect. I don't need to list the ways in which he has changed. I can only applaud in admiration for a man who has the strength to make such fundamental changes in his personality!
The Selfless Lover:
At a very early stage Krishna's love was definitely self-seeking. All he was looking for was a wife to warm bed and hearth. But his transformation began the minute he started considering another's needs above his own. If giving your life for love is the ultimate test of love, then we need say no more about the heights scaled by Krishna's love in selflessness.
The Tempered Lover:
The Krishna who choked Pratigya, slapped her and nearly raped her in anger, is a person who does not exist any more! Oh yes! He is still an angry young man, but his love has tempered him so well that anger is no longer more easy to summon than affection. In the past few weeks he tried desperately to wear an armour of anger, only to have it pierced by his own over-whelming fondness.
The Forgiving Lover:
Krishna is no tally-keeper. He keeps no scores! How easily he forgave all for those precious words of love! " Ab tum ne dil ke darwajje khol diye hain, tho sagri jahan tum pe nichhawar!" That is true forgiveness for you, that retains not even the scent of the wrong-doing!
The Lover of Truth-
The most important reason that Krishna is such a beautiful lover. He is essentially a righteous man, a good man. It is the truth in Pratigya which has been the primary pull for him. He may have been weaned on the Thakur's ways, but his own mother's milk has managed not to poison him! It is the incorruptible virginity of his soul that makes him an ideal lover!
-The Bible further goes on to state:
It [Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
In connection to Kriya, we have know these to be true so far and as for the future what can we say but AMEN!
What is so glorious to see is that the perfection that Krishna's love has achieved has been rewarded beyond even his own expectations- it has been rewarded by an absolute and perfect love. A love that does not hold back anything in reserve. He has been given a complete and unhesitating surrender. Not considerations of self or society will ever factor in Pratigya's love. Pratigya has drowned in love so far that she has herself become the ocean and Krishna whose love has been tried and tested and prepared is now wholly ready to be swept up in the currents of her love.
Their love will be consummated tonight we know. May it consume them, we pray!
Cricket
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