For centuries man has tried to define love, to capture its essence, to reach through words and thoughts to its very core. But by and large, love has escaped the clutches of words, cages of definitions. It floats free as an abstraction, as music, as a lyrical lore and continues to claim its victims, innocent young hearts, all through centuries.

None have been able to click on "escape" or "delete" buttons when face to face with power of love.

The dictionary defines love as deep affection and fondness. In a generalized sense, love is a strong attraction or a magnetic pull coupled with intense caring for a thing or an activity or a person.

However, we are talking here about love between man and woman or two persons. It most certainly has a quality that separates it from love one feels for one's child, parents, or love for books, music, sports, nature, or even towards one's own self.

Love between man and woman is the most profound experience, an out of the ordinary occurrence and is often coupled with desire for physical intimacy with the other for its ultimate expression. It has even been said to be a magical or metaphysical experience.

It is rather strange to think when love happens you say 'I have fallen in love". It can not be just a coincidence that this phrase, often used without introspection or speculation, can really give us a clue to how it feels to be in love.

There must be a sense of falling from a great height, like a feather, light weight, there is a feeling of lightness, of happiness, of surrender. In this fall resides a lover's rise. A person who has not fallen in love has never risen in life, as wise men say.

In love you surrender. In love you give. In love you care. In love you accept. In love you cease to matter alone. The other becomes part of you. The object of your love envelopes your soul, your thoughts, your being.

The Beatles stars John Lennon and Paul McCartney created the song "All you need is love". Mahatma Gandhi has said "Love never claims, it only gives". Poet Janos Arany says "In dream and in love, there are no impossibilities".

It seems nature has conspired for us to fall in love. Let's love and let's live.