It’s Valentine’s Day and Monarose Sheila Pereira gets a few musicians to share what love means to them straight from the heart.

Manuraj Singh Rajput, Flutist

The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, when it gives everything. This is the real spiritual love, the worship through love.  Love can never be the means; it must be the perfect end.

Reewa Rathod, Singer

Love is like an ocean of dreams. It’s more than just a feeling. It’s magic! There’s no feeling greater than being loved by someone, and loving someone back is even more powerful. Love is the voice of the soul. A life without love is worse than death itself. Love has no boundaries, no limits, no barriers. Even when two people are apart, they become closer with every breath, and every heartbeat. Distance means nothing when someone means everything! People say love hurts, but it also gives us a thousand reasons to live for. Two souls become one. Sometimes you can’t see yourself when you are with the person you love. There’s a light in the eye, a spark that’s brighter than a thousand suns. Love is when you speak without words. When you can see with your eyes closed, when you dream without sleeping, when you feel without touching; it is divine. It makes us believe! You held my hand I could touch the sky. You stood by me and no star was out of reach. Love is my power, my pleasure, my pain!

Rajesh Thakker, Hawaiian guitarist

Love is very important. The world would cease to exist without Love. Love is emotion, love is omnipresent and exist in every living thing.  Love suits each and every person differently amongst family, friends, or lovers, and also active on individual platform from person to person. We are all born to love and not to hate. Love is Life, you, me and all, everything and everyone, just open your heart and embrace Love. Love is the key to success. Love is the Temple of God.

Gino Banks, Drummer

Love for me is split in different ways, the love for my fiancé Eden, the love for my mother and father and my family, the love of the drums and music and the art form. Love is a big word and sometimes overused a bit carelessly I think, it takes a level of maturity to really understand what Love truly means and it always keeps evolving and we will constantly understand it better as time passes on. I try as much as I can to express my love in which ever way possible, sometimes obnoxiously loud, sometimes subtle, but I make sure it’s shown in the right way and for the right reasons. Purest form of expressing Love is unconditional, with no agenda, just a pure joy to make another person happy and feel loved. That’s what we all want at our core. And that will make this a better world to live in.

-        Monarose Sheila Pereira is an author, journalist, and media lecturer. She has published several books  and has written for all the major newspapers and magazines. She has worked for All India Radio and Doordarshshan. She also conducts self improvement workshops.