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Courtesy:Mr.Sagar(blog writer)
According to Arabic literature, there are seven stages of love..
1.- Hub - Attraction
2. - Uns - Infatuation
3. - Ishq - Love
4. - Aqeedat - Reverence
5. - Ibaadat - Worship
6. - Junoon - Obsession
7.- Maut - Death
According to Arabic literature, there are seven stages of love..
1.- Hub - Attraction
2. - Uns - Infatuation
3. - Ishq - Love
4. - Aqeedat - Reverence
5. - Ibaadat - Worship
6. - Junoon - Obsession
7.- Maut - Death
This seven fold philosophy of love is beautifully depicted in this song from the movie Dil Se, which is one of my favorite movies... The song and film is extremely figurative and artistic and the symbolism is not easily understood in first viewing. However this symbolism and theme of seven steps, is artistically depicted in the movie...
This song is played at all the major turning points of the film where the characters cross each of these 7 check points leading ultimately to their death.. Inexorably drawn towards each other, the crescendo of love goes on increasing unchecked...
This is the first stage of Hub... The eyes meet, the spark is initiated... the journey begins...
One of the most beautiful and insightful lines of Mirza Ghalib... He compares love with of an uncontrolled fire... Difficult to ignite, and once started, impossible to extinguish...
Second stage of infatuation achieved...
Third stage of love.. This is the pinnacle of the feel good involved in the process. The most blissful of all the stages.. If this point is crossed, the bliss starts decreasing. We can't say whether pain starts after this stage or not, but the the ideas of bliss and pain start getting increasingly impersonal... If love crosses this point, there usually is no turning back.. One has to follow the chain of events which leads to death or severe heart-break, poetically worse than Death...
Fourth and Fifth stage is seen in this stanza.. Reverence and Worship... An object one initially was infatuated with and attracted to, becomes the object of reverence which leads to it becoming an object of worship... The object of worship is elevated to a higher pedastal where nothing can be wrong with the object.. There can be no negotiations about the infallibility of the object...
Interesting thing is, until this point, the Dvaita (Duality) of lover and beloved is maintained.. Although the object becomes infallible and utmost important, this is not the point where the identity of person is lost...
All the relations which come until this point are dualist. Devout lovers, Devout Bhaktas (Devotees), Fanatic believers in God, all come until this point of the journey..
The next 2 steps are so insanely dangerous that few dare to tread them...
The sixth stage of Obsession achieved... Here, slowly, person starts identifying whole-heartedly with the object of his obsession.. He starts loosing his identity and begins the process of becoming one with the object of obsession.. He entangles hopelessly into the identity of object of obsession.. To such an extent that the existence-nonexistence of the object becomes the matter of his own existence-nonexistence...
Final stage... Death.. This can be literal as well as figurative...
The other words which convey the meaning of this stage are ??? (Fanaa - Destruction of ego), (Kaivalya - Singularity) and ?????? (Advaita - Non-Dualism).
All these four concepts of Death, Destruction (of ego), Singularity and Non-dualism signify the same climax.. The lover destroys his self-identity; his Aatman (Sense of "I")..
If someone contemplates on a woman and travels these stages, he will end up destroying himself, but will not become one with the woman or her identity... If one chooses to contemplate on some idea or something abstract, like Brahman, he will achieve unity... It is a matter of great skepticism whether an accomplished Yogi actually experiences the state of Singularity (Kaivalya) or not... But he claims to be, and there is no way to either prove or disprove it...
Just as it is the case with love... It is strictly a personal experience... No one can feel it for you... No one can measure it and validate it... It is something which simply exists.. without any requisite explanation OR justification...
As it is said by Ghalib... Love is like an uncontrollable fire... Difficult to ignite and impossible to quench...
This song is played at all the major turning points of the film where the characters cross each of these 7 check points leading ultimately to their death.. Inexorably drawn towards each other, the crescendo of love goes on increasing unchecked...
This is the first stage of Hub... The eyes meet, the spark is initiated... the journey begins...
One of the most beautiful and insightful lines of Mirza Ghalib... He compares love with of an uncontrolled fire... Difficult to ignite, and once started, impossible to extinguish...
Second stage of infatuation achieved...
Third stage of love.. This is the pinnacle of the feel good involved in the process. The most blissful of all the stages.. If this point is crossed, the bliss starts decreasing. We can't say whether pain starts after this stage or not, but the the ideas of bliss and pain start getting increasingly impersonal... If love crosses this point, there usually is no turning back.. One has to follow the chain of events which leads to death or severe heart-break, poetically worse than Death...
Fourth and Fifth stage is seen in this stanza.. Reverence and Worship... An object one initially was infatuated with and attracted to, becomes the object of reverence which leads to it becoming an object of worship... The object of worship is elevated to a higher pedastal where nothing can be wrong with the object.. There can be no negotiations about the infallibility of the object...
Interesting thing is, until this point, the Dvaita (Duality) of lover and beloved is maintained.. Although the object becomes infallible and utmost important, this is not the point where the identity of person is lost...
All the relations which come until this point are dualist. Devout lovers, Devout Bhaktas (Devotees), Fanatic believers in God, all come until this point of the journey..
The next 2 steps are so insanely dangerous that few dare to tread them...
The sixth stage of Obsession achieved... Here, slowly, person starts identifying whole-heartedly with the object of his obsession.. He starts loosing his identity and begins the process of becoming one with the object of obsession.. He entangles hopelessly into the identity of object of obsession.. To such an extent that the existence-nonexistence of the object becomes the matter of his own existence-nonexistence...
Final stage... Death.. This can be literal as well as figurative...
The other words which convey the meaning of this stage are ??? (Fanaa - Destruction of ego), (Kaivalya - Singularity) and ?????? (Advaita - Non-Dualism).
All these four concepts of Death, Destruction (of ego), Singularity and Non-dualism signify the same climax.. The lover destroys his self-identity; his Aatman (Sense of "I")..
If someone contemplates on a woman and travels these stages, he will end up destroying himself, but will not become one with the woman or her identity... If one chooses to contemplate on some idea or something abstract, like Brahman, he will achieve unity... It is a matter of great skepticism whether an accomplished Yogi actually experiences the state of Singularity (Kaivalya) or not... But he claims to be, and there is no way to either prove or disprove it...
Just as it is the case with love... It is strictly a personal experience... No one can feel it for you... No one can measure it and validate it... It is something which simply exists.. without any requisite explanation OR justification...
As it is said by Ghalib... Love is like an uncontrollable fire... Difficult to ignite and impossible to quench...
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