Symphony of the heart

Novelist Milan Kundera wrote, 'When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.' Heart is an abode of universal wisdom. And what's the wisdom of heart? The part of you that's the healthiest, the most constructive, the most wholesome contributor to Life with a capital L.

It's often said in English that hunches seldom let you down. What emanates from the recesses of the heart doesn't go in vain. The heart points to the most essential dimensions within you, and not to be connected with that, and to live your life as if that dimension didn't exist, is really missing the very purpose of your life on earth, no matter what you achieve outwardly.

Hakim Sanai writes in one of his couplets inPahlavi, 'Zee an az mee manzil zaaq-e-zehan/ Shee' abd mansookh aawaaz-e-dil sehan' - So long as I listened to my mind, I failed to reach my destination/ The moment I listened to the voiceof my heart, the destination was before me. Heart always guides you truly and honestly unlike the mind and its plastic intelligence.

'Mind misleads, heart heals' is an adage that's popular in all cultures and civilisations as axiomatic wisdom. The language of the heart is feelings. When we follow our hearts, we listen not to our head but to what we feel is right. But to listen to the hints emerging from the heart, one has to be full of discernment and be deeply attentive.

The symphony of the heart doesn't have a single flawed note. It's divinely prophetic.