I was watching some old family pictures to day, and came across some which we had taken when we visited the TajMahal.
The ,Tomb, is beautiful and is a classic example, of how love CAN manifests itself and how a building can actually become a synonym for 'Love'
Yet it was almost broken down by the 'Britishers' and sold in pieces for Marble.
For them after all it was slabs of expansive marble wasted in a building that can not harbour any one.
This marble could have been used for making VIP bathrooms after all.
How love can create some thing so beautiful and lack of it can actually think of demolishing some thing so beautiful.
And there also was a British lady who was prepared to die if her husband could create some thing like this in her memory,
There are times when heart desires some thing and the mind negates it.
The mind after all is the one which takes pride in the fact that it can think ,--- think and than come to conclusions.
The heart gets berated because it is stated to be impulsive and rash. But than is it true that all decisions made by the mind are always right and by the heart always wrong.
The Tajmahal, why did it come to existance.
Was it the mind or the heart which may have driven ShahJahan to construct the building which caters to the silent desires of 'love' residing in every heart.
What would have been the Mind's take on this.
I am sure it would have rejected it outright. Why afetr all spend so much on a structure which would be nothing but the advertisment of love of only of rich and mighty.
There after all is a view existing ,
EK SHEHENSHAH NA DAULAT KA SAHARA LEKAR , HUM GARIBON KI MUHABBAT KA URAYA HAI MAJAAK.
Yet the Taj stands in all its glory.
Evoking love, desire and prayer in every heart that harbours love,
For the worldlywise, it stands as a perfect money spinning machine if that is the sole criteria to justify some thing.
For the artist in the heart it stand s tall as perfect example of Mugal architecture.
And above all it stands as representation of the India that was and the India that can be.
To every one his own,
Jaisi jiski chaakri vaise uske daam - - - - - -
KABHI KISI KO MUQUAMMAL JAHAAN NAHIN MILTA
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