Rahul and Anjali were born and lived in two different worlds:
\nOne in San Francisco and the other in Miami.
\nThough progeny of the same Kashmiri Pandit community
\nThey grew up like plants in two different nurseries.<\/p>\n
It is not important to know how and where they met
\nBut we know that at some point a spark was produced between them
\nThat has lit up their universes.<\/p>\n
What is love? We do not know what it is
\nBut we know it is among the most sublime of experiences.
\nIt makes us larger than life, it makes us see things in a different light;
\nIt makes us know the special nature of human life,
\nIt brings us closer to God.<\/p>\n
There are dreams hanging in the skies,
\nThere is a music lying deep in the recesses of human heart.
\nWe see and hear them often but ignore them
\nDue to the strident sounds of the world that surround us.<\/p>\n
It is in the nature of nature to have a man and a woman
\nBond to produce love, family, and society,
\nTo give the journey of a man and a woman in the human phase
\nSubstance, order, and meaning.<\/p>\n
Every time a man falls in love with a woman
\nA miracle takes place.
\nSomewhere deep within them an emotion arises seeking each other:
\nThat is elemental, transcendental, and inscrutable.
\nBut beyond that we know that love is an expansion of mind,
\nEnlargement of heart, and deepening of compassion.<\/p>\n
Any new marriage between a man and a woman
\nIs a testimony that God has not yet lost faith in human beings,
\nThat He wants the human race to continue.
\nWe live in the times of crass individualism where some of the
\nCherished human values and visions have been trampled at the altar of self.<\/p>\n
Rahul and Anjali are two birds flying out yonder in the deep open skies,
\nFollowing each other without reason, without a goal.
\nIt is a bond beyond worldly logic, beyond morality,
\nIt is a connection forged in heavens for cosmos to absorb.<\/p>\n
Rahul was a carefree boy never tiring playing with his buddies,
\nAnjali was a sweet girl forever lost in her toys.
\nBoth grew up to be ambitious and free human beings
\nBut today they are forsaking their personal freedoms
\nTo gain a larger freedom \u2013 to touch the shores of eternity.<\/p>\n
The story of every man is a little tale etched on a stretch of sand,
\nThe life of human beings continues through their progeny,
\nTo be subsumed in the grand journey of humankind.
\nMan\u2019s life in the world is merely a worldly manifestation
\nOf its larger journey to circle the halo of God.<\/p>\n
In a few days the river called Rahul will confluence with a river called Anjali,
\nIn such a fusion that they will remain indistinguishable from each other,
\nYet retain their identities.
\nIt is a bond that enlarges their individual luminosities
\nCreating a light more splendorous than before.<\/p>\n
In the marriage of Rahul and Anjali there is something in stake for all of us:
\nWe want our own unfulfilled dreams getting fulfilled through them;
\nWe want to live with their love for each other
\nAnd hope for our future with their hopes for their future –
\nAs we see them as a part of ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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