Odyssey of Love

By Geeta Bhandari

This book is my second attempt to celebrate the pastiche of finest human emotion that is love. I must admit that it is very tedious for people to get the story of their life right, because it is so subtle and complex. The paradisal innocence and guilelessness of the cosmos and the power and glory of relationships have their own illusions and disillusionment, but they are the way of our life—all true and real—wherein love comes as a magic wand, setting aside regret, reproach, and grief.

Life goes on and is frequented with unknown minds. Emotions enter, sometimes confronted with compassion and pity, making us vulnerable. And one is forced to say:

If thy unworthiness raised love in me
More worthy I to be beloved of thee. (William Shakespeare)

What emerges from all this is remarkable—indeed unique. Love is a healer, and this is vehemently expressed by one and all. Love is a real mystery, which made Keats cry:

O for a life of sensations
Rather than of thoughts.

The impetus for writing this book sprang from my growing realization that love is the only hope in this pernicious and deleterious world of today. Some may find love gibberish, panoply of emotions, or a clap trap, bringing butterflies and jingles in the heart, but it certainly ennobles man.

Looking on what I have done with my life, today, I believe I have probably raised a premeditated exaltation to the perennial cause of joy, something which has made me feel humble as and when it possessed and overpowered me.


The poetess speaks of love, wondrous love, and looks upon spring as the divine manifestation and is an eternal naysayer to pessimism. The war of emotions that the human heart is persistently engaged in and the gutless modern men lacking in passion and compassion reinforce her faith and hope for the second world. Amen.

T. S. Anand, editor, Literary Voice


“Odyssey of Love is a pious and secular peregrination goaded by the disquieting magnetism and charisma of love” (Dr. B. L. Chakoo, professor emeritus).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524509767

Geeta Bhandari

Dr Geeta Bhandari is senior faculty member of SDP College for Women, Ludhiana, India. She specializes in the aesthetics of modern British fiction and has added to the corpus of Iris Murdoch’s criticism with her first book, The Novels of Iris Murdoch, which was published in 2009. She is an associate editor, Literary Voice. Odyssey of Love is her second attempt wherein she treats metaphysics, the nature of self, being, existence, time, and space as the ultimate underlying principles of life and reflects how they steer and guide mankind towards morality. She explores the attempts of man, which he makes for self-perfection, and discovers the beauty of the human soul and magic of love that characterizes his life. She feels self-surrender in love can lead to ultimate and unlimited reality. She endorses Murdoch by saying that it’s only through the celebration of love and freedom that we can understand the ‘otherness’ of other human beings.

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A Peregrination

Odyssey of Love

Geeta Bhandari

Copyright © 2016 by Geeta Bhandari.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgement

1. Loneliness

2. Self

3. Fulfilment

4. Bond of Love

5. Pain

6. The Sea of Suffering

7. My Valentine

8. Love

9. Rainbow of Life

10. Reunion

11. Cry

12. Joy

13. Freedom of Choice

14. The Other

15. World of Sweet Nothings

16. On the Advent of Spring

17. The Little Actor

18. The Pain of Nature

19. The Sea of Suffering

20. His Sounding Bugles

21. Misgivings in Love

22. For Success

23. Seasons of Existence

24. Saint of Love

25. His Almighty

26. Second Childhood

27. Conscience

28. Is this the end?

29. Seeing

30. Beware

31. Celebration

32. Space

33. A Note for My Daughter

34. Love

35. Invitation for Love

36. Struggle

37. Humanly Design

38. Betrayal

39. Accusations

40. My Love is No More

41. Deception

42. Saving The Mankind

43. Invasion

44. His Music

45. Struggle for Existence

46. Sounds of Death

47. Old Flame

48. The Last Remains

49. Blind Gestures

50. The World

51. Emptiness

52. Love

53. Turmoil

54. Rebirth

55. Sparkle

56. State of Confusion

57. Prisoned bird

58. The Battered Soul

59. Slaves of Love

60.