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Valentine’s Day: Of romance and more Best time to understand love and its power We might have missed the deeper meaning of Valentine’s Day by singling out romantic love as the focus of this day’s ultimate meaning. Love is multifaceted. It is more than emotion. Love is a force that can motivate, create, heal and transform the lives of anyone it touches. Many of us have forgotten that this day was created to recognize a saint. Over time, Valentine’s Day has become blended with two other ancient Roman holidays — Lupercalis and Juno — both associated with romance. However, Saint Valentine’s life exemplifies a broader definition of love. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes eight different saints named Valentine but the most famous one lived in Rome during the reign of Claudius II, around the year 270 AD. Legend has it that Claudius II outlawed marriage as a way to encourage men to join his army. Valentine refused to obey this law and was arrested for secretly performing weddings for young couples. While in prison, Valentine’s kindness and positive attitude helped convert the jailer and his wife to Christianity. According to the legend, Valentine also befriended the jailer’s blind daughter, often writing her notes of encouragement and praying for her. Word of Valentine’s kindness and compassion reached Claudius II. He offered to release Valentine if the priest would renounce his religion and worship the Roman gods. Valentine not only refused, but he tried to convert Claudius II to Christianity. Claudius II rejected this attempt and condemned Valentine to death. As the legend goes, Valentine’s prayers were answered, and the jailer’s daughter was healed. On the eve of his execution, Valentine wrote a note assuring this young girl that she was not responsible for his death. He signed the note “from your Valentine”. // ** As we can see, Valentine’s story represents many aspects of love. It was his love for God and his commitment to his values that caused him to disobey the law. His respect for romantic love is also included in his disobedience. His positive and loving attitude, even in the midst of crisis, affected the views of others including the jailer and Claudius himself. He demonstrated love for humanity through his kindness to the jailer’s blind daughter. The following are ways to broaden our celebration of Saint Valentine’s Day: being your own valentine; sharing meaningful and heartfelt appreciation to all the important people in your life, not just your lover; practicing random acts of kindness to strangers; and recommitting to your own spiritual values. However, the most important way to put the power back into this day of love is to learn to use the force of love to transform your life. Love can be consciously directed to bring peace and harmony into your world. In our mind’s eye, envision a world filled with love and light, see people responding to you with kindness and respect as you do the same with them. Join this image with the feelings of joy as you release the force of love into your life. **// This process may seem simplistic, but love works. I have taught this technique to people for over twenty years. The reports have been fantastic. People have healed relationships that have been damaged for years. Parents have seen dramatic improvements in the behaviour of their children. Workers have witnessed profound changes in conflicts on the job. The only way you will know if it works is to try it. Do the exercise for two weeks and see if your life is not improved. You might want to pick a particular person or situation with which to experiment. You will not be disappointed. Make a commitment to forget the fluff and get down to the real stuff. Celebrate the power of love on Saint Valentine’s Day. You will be glad you did

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 14, Feb 2010 10:57:54 AM IST

Love struck, forever! Everyone has an untold love story. Love called as she slipped into coma! ALISON & AATISH KAPADIA He managed the marketing department of one of the leading publishing houses. She was a trainee under him, and also a ballet dancer. Gradually, the friendship grew and the boss, Aatish Kapadia (television producerdirector), who was also into theatre, got Alison to perform in one of his plays. After about a year’s courtship, a bohemian Aatish called off the relationship. Alison waited, hoping for a miracle, “I felt destiny would bring us together again.” A miracle did happen, but how! She met with a near fatal accident exactly three days after they split, and went into a state of coma. Recalls Aatish, “That was the defining moment.” Was it pity? “No, certainly not. I am not that magnanimous. It was pure love. It was the calling.” ‘I didn’t know it was love…’ RAM & RASHMI “I was too young to understand that I was in love. My heart beating so fast and I could feel emptiness as we parted,” remembers Rashmi. She gifted him a crystal with the Eiffel Tower and 'Forget Me Not' embossed on it, as she left Ram in Paris, their last destination on a vacation tour. Rashmi came back to India and married the man she was engaged to since she was 12. After her marriage broke up three years ago, the man of her dreams found her a year later, 22 years after they first met on that trip. Says an overjoyed Rashmi, “He had preserved the crystal and the love letters I wrote to him in the six months we kept in touch. It’s destiny. Deep down, I believed we would meet again. And when he called me last year, I screamed with joy, ‘Of course, I remember you, how can I forget my first love?’” (Names changed) Drunk on love! ARCHANA & SANJAY SAHNI A glimpse of the girl in his neighbourhood would keep Sanjay going for days. He anonymously sent her roses and cards. He says, “I was scared to approach her. It was traumatic as I had lost focus on work. I was miserable.” This carried on for three years till one day, Sanjay got drunk at a party and blurted out everything to his close friends, who arranged a meeting with her. They went on a long drive, Sanjay proposed and she said ‘yes’ right away. He laughs, “That was the first time I drank. Till now, we joke that we should be thankful to whisky.” The couple went to Las Vegas after 12 years of their marriage to renew their wedding vows. ‘I needed a doctor in my life!’ SHIRIN & ABHIJEET HEGDEPATIL He was sure that she was the ‘one’. But her parents disapproved because of his 'filmy' background. Abhijeet says, “I got to know her friends and made it a group effort so that she felt secure.” Shirin was a physiotherapist and Abhijeet looked for excuses to meet her, pretending to have hurt his knee one day, elbow the next and claiming a muscle pain another time. Says the music composer, “This went on for about a year and finally I had to tell her, ‘Now you understand that I need a doctor in my life’. We finally managed to convince her family.” Shirin and Abhijit tied the knot in 2008. Love triumphed over cancer PREETI & RAJAT He was a handsome young man, 6 feet, 4 inches tall and 23 years old, but suffering from blood cancer. But, this did not deter Preeti, who lived in his neighbourhood and fell head over heels in love with him. She resisted everybody from his family and hers, who tried to stop her from getting married to someone with low chances of survival. The two eloped. She tells it like it is, “Love is just beautiful.” It has been over 15 years and they are still together. Was it love that changed their destiny? Perhaps! (Names changed) She was his ‘cover’! SUNITI & KRISHNA KUMAR KHANNA At times, it’s similar ideologies that binds people. Krishna Kumar Khanna, a CPI party member in 1949 went underground for almost 10 months as an 18-year-old undergraduate in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Interestingly, one of his ‘covers’, in whose home he lived, was a girl his age, also a party member. She was also the courier of secret party documents and would often go with Krishna to meetings as a ‘mobile cover’. Ten years later, the ‘cover/courier’ became his wife. Says Krishna, “Our ideological closeness, almost oneness, was surely a very important reason for us to fall in love.” ‘Do you recognise this suit?’ MEETA & COLONEL VK JAITLY Actor Celina Jaitly's parents Colonel V K Jaitly and his wife Meeta met during the Indo-Pak war. Wounded in the 1971 war as a lieutenant, he was moved to the Lucknow base hospital where actor Celina’s grandfather was the commandant. Celina’s mother, then 15 years old, was told to deliver a cake to his namesake by her grandmother, but met him instead. Recalls the colonel, “I fell in love with her right then, she was so very beautiful. I was in a trance. I couldn't get over her." With the hospital pyjamas being the only clothes he had, Colonel Jaitly borrowed a young teenager’s father’s suit so he could meet Meeta’s father for his proposal. “And when I landed at his place, I discovered my friend was Meeta's older brother, and I was standing before him wearing his suit.” The proposal was declined, but, as the colonel laughs, “I pursued Meeta for five years through letters and finally managed to win her father's ‘yes’ and Meeta's heart.” ‘He waited 15 years for me!’ MALVIKA & JITESH Two best friends proposed to Malvika around the same time. After nine years of courting one, she realised she had more in common with the other. Finally, Malvika says, “Our friendship blossomed and thankfully, I married my best friend.” Eventually, Malvika learnt that her husband had patiently waited for her for almost 15 years, from the time before he proposed to her. She says, “He met me when I was very young, and looked for excuses to visit my cousin so that he could meet me. When I was not with him, he was lonely and searched for the connection he shared with me.” http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIM/2010/02/14&PageLabel=59&EntityId=Ar05900&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 14, Feb 2010 10:52:35 AM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGS6odDzZtw&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0mpynY_ocI&feature=related Hmmmm!

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 8:03:14 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvCGT45KgM

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 7:47:41 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxvn81GVbCQ&feature=response_watch

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 7:17:28 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqIs-bk23rY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuHiARr1vjo&feature=related

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 7:08:37 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hpNgA2wHT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJCbJrqwmI&feature=response_watch

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 6:55:39 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyKvp5oT8Q&NR=1

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 6:53:09 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpowvsNpdhs&feature=channel

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 6:37:47 PM IST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHtBLclwFA&feature=dir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIm7A7HALQ&feature=channel

Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 13, Feb 2010 6:35:23 PM IST

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