Of love, lust, moksha and other desires….

So, I watched Samsara this weekend.
*I may give out the plot, so read at your own risk.*

A beautiful movie directed by Pal Nalin, set in the blissful beauty of Ladakh. It’s a simple story about a Buddhist monk who cannot withhold his attraction for a beautiful woman.

A battle between the body and the soul, the sensual over the spiritual!!!
A fascinating tale that quenches the thirst of a few answers within…….

How can you renounce the desires that you have never known?
Buddha lived a normal life till 29 years.

(And you’ve always wanted to ask that one question above.)

The monk leaves the confines of the monastery to fulfil his desires in the illusionary endless samsara. He goes through an entire circle of life as he experiences the worldly pleasures derived from love, sex, marriage and materialism. But it’s only his lust and greed that increases manifolds. His lustful desires are endless…………and he is forced by them to betray.

Do you satisfy a thousand desires or conquer just one?

(That’s a good enough question with an answer for the time being!)

Confusion and misery creeps in the very soul of his. And he decides to move away from the samsara, back to the eternal. Unlike Buddha, he is faced by his wife who leaves him with a swarm of questions………before she bids him a dignified adieu.

Did anyone ever think of Rahul and his wife, Yashodhara?
Perhaps she wanted to walk the path of enlightenment too….
But she chose to sacrifice it all for the sake of her son.

What would she have told Rahul every time he inquired about his father?

Who knows if she lived an entire life of loneliness and bitterness?
We know she lived as an ascetic…
But who knows if she may have attained her enlightenment too?

(Yeah, these are my question too!!! Isnt a woman always expected to perform a series of sacrifices as a part of her duty! And lo, she does it all so well!!!)

If you love anything with true passion, faith and honesty……..
whatever it maybe……….moksha can be yours in this very lifetime!!!
Else even a series of lifetimes would not prove enough...

(How true!!! If love isn’t pure, it's not worth pursuing anyway!!!)