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"I started to write this story as an attempt to understand the eternally classical and popular subject of passionate love. Today, I find myself very near to the skeptical position that a pure experience of love might be as mythical as the concept of God. However, when I was completing this book, my thoughts were something like this: love is a condition achieved after losing self-consciousness about love itself. And for this reason, it cannot be achieved through a conscious endeavor.
If it ever happens, it happens according to its own time, space, and circumstances. When one falls in love, he/she would not have awareness of it. A lover who is aware of his/her love has not fallen in love with the beloved; he/she has merely fallen in love with the idea of love itself. Nevertheless, the latter is what most of us recognize as real love, and we have accordingly developed cultural and ethical values suited to nurture it.
Having said that, it is not my desire to put the so-called "natural" and "self-evolving" love up on a pedestal and depreciate the "culturally" constructed notion of love. The fact is that the "cultured" love is what keeps our societies cemented and going. My respect for it does not diminish a bit by my curiosity and search for the other rare, "naturally" occurring, love. My exploration of love in this work is to show the eternal possibility that love holds of transitioning from one form to the other or of existing in a duality.
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-Dr. Deepak Khadka
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