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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Dil , Dimaag aur Mann

While conversing , people use different words to describe their inner self , the wors being : Dil , dimaag and mann. Ever thought what is the difference between the three (I never did before .. ). Well dil and dimaag have always been different , but which part of the body does mann refer to ? I mean everything is ultimately done by the dimaag only ... then what is mann ? We sometimes use mann and dil as synonyms ... for eg. , if someone is to say "Aaj mera mann nahin kar raha" , he can always say "aaj mera dil nahin kar raha". So dil can be used almost at all the places instead of mann ... but the vice-versa is not true. I mean u can say that "mera dil toot gaya" , but no one says "mera mann toot gaya" or "mera mann dhak-dhak kar raha hai !". So what does actually mann refer to ? I asked my mom ... and she happens to be quite a thinker . Her first reply was that it is dil and dimaag combined , but then she said that that mann refers to your inner conscience , your inner self. Hmm... now that seems like a valid definition. So this discussion is over.

Now the other thing I can not understand that where does the concept of love and heart come from .. I mean why do we always associate love with the heart , when almost everything happens in the brain ..? Hmm... It is no use searching it on the net ... all you can expect to find is loads of sites on love and heart care hospital sites and other irrelevent stuff. A well done search may actually yield results ... but then ... I am not really that interested in knowing the history of it all ... besides ... every site will give me a different history ... so it is of little use . I'll tell u what I think must be the way this concept came into being -
Well , cosider this very olden time , some Mr. X fell in love with this girl Ms. Y. Now some time later it was discovered that Ms. Y loved some Mr. Z. When Mr. X heard this , he got a shock. And then he got a heart attack due to the shock. The heart attack was minor , so he survived it to tell it to others how he fell this great pain in his heart when the love was no more. Later when Mr. Z came to know that Ms. Y loves him , he also got a minor heart attack. When he told the other people about this , they started believing somewhat that love's got sth to do with the heart. The word spread around , and people from different parts of the country confirmed this. Traders spread the word to other countries as well , and so the thing spread everywhere in the world. People confirmed the heart pains , others said that they've felt like this before and still others said that they had this dream wherein God confirmed it to them (The story gets satirical here). The church and the pandits never had a problem to this , so they also accepted the fact and started preaching that the love of God comes from the heart. And so the concept came into being ...
I tell u ... this must be true .. this is what must have happened .. this is how the concept must have come into existance. :-)