Talk:Aashiq
Lucky Ji, (just sharing thoughts) This, I sadly cannot read the Gurmukhi, reminds me of one of my two favorite poems, Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Admit impediments. Love is not love
- Which alters when it alteration finds,
- Or bends with the remover to remove:
- O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
- That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
- It is the star to every wandering bark,
- Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
- Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
- Within his bending sickle's compass come:
- Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
- But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
- If this be error and upon me proved,
- I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
The line - It is the star to every wandering bark - refers to a barque (a three masted sailing ship) and
to the fact that early navigation was primarily done with reference to the stars in the night sky.
Also I find mentioned many times the idea of- love as a - threshing floor, no matter ones religion, the fact that true love, whether for God or one's wife, children, relatives or fellow men, is not easy and may at times be like the wild voyage of Makhan Shah Labana and the Sacrifices faced by the Gurus: particularly the Shahids, both Gurus and Sikhs, but all of us are always being put to the test, staying true to our word, promises with our fellow 'men' and with Waheguru. Those who flit about , change their mind and commitements, miss the whole essence of true love.
Here are a few comments by someone on the idea:
Let us consider what the threshing floor represents in the Scriptures. Its meaning goes beyond merely “the place where grain was threshed”. It is symbolic of the relationship between the Bride and the Bridegroom.
This Bridegroom (us) and Bridegroom (God) is mentioned here often.
At the center of the threshing floor, one finds two large flat stones, one resting on the top of the other. They were “fitted and joined” together. The top stone was known as the “female” and the bottom stone the “male”. The “grinding of grain” was a depiction of the difficulty of marriage (Job 31:10).
The act of marriage is a physical depiction of the “spiritual communion” God desires between Himself and Man.
Also looking for Guru Nanak's thoughts on other religions I came across a book, Scanned on Google
You may have already read the book, alas - “Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time, so much to know!”
