Friday, 19 February 2016

Oedipus, Nationalist and Kabir

Oedipus refers to a 5th-century BC Greek mythological character King Oedipus, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother though he was unaware that he is his actual father and the lady he will be marrying is his own biological mother he was adopted by a another couple and later when he falls in love with a lady who is his actual mother  he fights her husband and eventually kills him by throwing him down from the chariot .


This is a tragedy in a true sense where none of the characters don’t know the relation between each other and fight to kill each other for only one feeling of love , love which sheds own blood
If love is that important and is the only thing that matters then why to kill for it isn’t it strange both have same feeling of love but choose to kill the other act alike
but  yes the believe that one’s love is dearer then other loves leads to war and result is death of other who also loved the same thing  ,what a great tragedy !
isn’t  this tragedy is similar to what India is facing today people  killing each other to claim motherland without realizing  other people also love the same mother land but not in the way which betimes believes is right
Can there be a definition of love? Can there be a purity test done on love? Can it be relative?
Can we question the absoluteness of love ?  I am afraid answer to most of the question is “NO”
Let’s not be part of this tragedy and understand we all are fighting for same feeling of love for motherland it’s time to realise there is no definition there can’t be any
as Kabir rightly said
“हिन्दू कहें मोहि राम पियारातुर्क कहें रहमाना,
आपस में दोउ लड़ी-लड़ी  मुएमरम  कोउ जाना।“
Which means
“Hindu says  ram is lovely , turk says Rahman is lovely
They died fighting each other ,without knowing what love is ?”