Beauty Harmonizes Law and Liberty

एक सुन्दर कविता, परखें तो, अलग शब्दों का झुंड है|
कविता का रस, वो अन्दरी माध्यम जो बाहरी शब्दों को जोड़ता है, जिसे दिखे, उसे मिले पूर्ण नियम जिसका कभी उल्लंघन नहीं होता|
वो नियम जिस्से सोच का विकास होता है; संगीत अौर आकार का नियम|

पर नियम अपने प्रकार की एक सीमा होती है|
वो सिर्फ इतना दिखाती है कि जो है वो कुछ अौर नहीं हो सकता|
जब इंसान कारण के खोज में व्यस्त हो जाता है, उस्का मन तथ्यों के जकड़ से छूटकर नियम के जकड़ में अा गिरता है|
भाशा सीखते हुए जब व्याकरण समझ आये तो वो एक उपलब्धी है|
पर उस मकाम पर अटक जायेें अौर व्याकरण के चमत्कार में ही बंध जायें, उस्के हर नियम के कारण को खोजते रहें, तो हम अंत तक पहुंच नहीं पायेंगे -- क्योंकी व्याकरण साहित्य नहीं है, छंद शास्त्र कविता नहीं है|

साहित्य तक पहुंचें तो देखें कि वो व्याकरण को मानते हुए भी अानन्द का ज़रिया है, आज़ादी है|
कविता की सुदंरता नियमों से सख्त सीमित है, पर वो नियमों के परे भी है|
उसका आकार नियम में है, पर उसकी भावना सौंदर्य में है|
नियम अाज़ादी का पहला कदम है, अौर सौंदर्य है पूर्ण मुक्ति जो नियम के आधार पर खड़ा है|
सौंदर्य अपने में मिलाती है सीमा अौर असीम, नियम अौर आज़ादी|

विश्व कविता में, उसके लय के नियम का खोज, उसकी बड़ायी अौर छोटायी का माप, उसका चलना अौर रुकना, उसके अाकार अौर चरित्र के विकास का पीछा करना, ये सब मन के सच्चे उपलब्धी हैं; पर हम यहां रुक नहीं सकते|
ये एक रेलवे स्टेशन है, हमारा घर नहीं|

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 Law, at best, provides structure that gets us started and points us in the right direction.  I agree with the great Tagore that the law is only the first step toward freedom, or at least it can be.  For some people the law becomes god, the final destination, and I think a jail.  Maturation typically means incorporating the spirit of the law and growing beyond the law.  The law may be thought of as a starter map, but it's not the journey or the destination.  My paraphrasing of a quote that I like is that we follow the road to get to the temple, and we leave the road to go inside.  Freedom, beauty, creativity may begin from  "standing on the pedestal of law" and then requires a leap, ie, detaching from the law and following one's own truth that has hopefully been informed by worthwhile law.  The law was the starting point for Buddha and Jesus, and they found enlightenment and freedom (salvation) by going beyond the law.  Christian scripture even says that you don't find life in the law.  For me, my worldview is enhanced by realizing this.  I was raised with strict rules.  I don't know if I needed them, but they are where I came from, and my own journey has been a breaking free from them, going beyond them into a life and world view that feels much more open, free, and alive, and I am grateful for that.

I must admit when I first read the title for this reflection, I was a little taken back and had much to say on the mirrored passage of what was written, with my thoughts of the global effect of laws and the beauty, the beauty I thought more the ugly effects of the pedestal of that law. Hmm, how completely thought provoking and tingling the senses of one own self debate was I in, huh I said to myself.. Yes there is a visual picture of un-laws and the horror of injustices and miss-justices and the breakdown of laws to make freedoms available to the whole, the bureaucratic effects of laws and the ugly pedestal effect of looking at laws of dictatorship, the laws of slavery even to this day, the thoughts came and my mind raced - Huh I said.. But and a very big paused ‘but’, Once I read this article for the third time, I got it, I really got it, there is the laws within the laws that take us to a different free place of awakenings and growth, the sounds of the orchestra, the laws of the pedestal conductor that leads the beautiful law of complete sounds to every emotion known to man, the pedestal of higher self, and the beautiful law of meditating, the law that tells you to breath, then takes you to a place of better self-being of stillness and growth. The laws of the collective to trust in an unsorted structure to believe and deliver rights for man, the beautiful manifestations that come through that. Then he beautiful law of healing, my saving of life, the pedestal of allowing the body time to heal, the natural law of allowing for time to just heal through everything that comes at us. That’s my awakening to allow that time to be, to heal and to see where I was to where I AM.. Yep, I never liked pedestals before, but I can see that some pedestals, laws are indeed just great, beautiful and in balance with the natural laws of all. Thank you, this was a beautiful mind opening piece. Much love xox