No love stories more beautiful than those that represent it as something eternal, capable of transcending the boundaries of time, life and death. The eternal love is something that captivates us, that we start the better feelings and longing to get and who love us. It is a captivating inner turmoil that drives us to cry silently and shut up while shouting, laughing with him but at the same time, to mourn with him.
Heard in the solitude of a room with dim lights torn a love song, read a novel in a secluded spot under the shade of an elm, or simply enjoy a film in the right company. Are ways of living and get to that feeling lethal. But the novels, songs or movies are tangible things are words able to express what the author once felt. Can you imagine expressing the complex and abstract term "love" without words, without gestures, without sounds? That's what gets the Taj Mahal .
We transmit pain, but love. Conveys loneliness, but also with us. Conveys sorrow, but also many joys. And it does so without a word. Only with the mystical power and strength that shows the purity of white marble. Because the Taj Mahal is pure eternal love and who has been in front he has sense, not their own flesh, as they say, but in his soul.
Sitting in the beautiful garden at the foot of the magnificent monument could remember their history ...
... Shah Jahan walking through a bazaar where one of the places he saw a young girl who fell in love. Arjumand radiated beauty, but the young man, impressed, was unable to open your mouth and tell you how he felt when he saw her. It took us five years, a marriage and two children, but his memories and those piercing eyes pounded the heart since that day in the bazaar. Finally, Shah Jahan decided and searched.
Thus began a relationship haunted by his father, the emperor. However, over time demonstrated their love, and she won the favor of the father of Shah Jahan. Finally consented to her marriage and the girl, Arjumand became known as Mumtaz Mahal, "Chosen of the Palace." The love of both seemed to have no limits. Is worshiped and demonstrated at every turn. Not separated and living always think of each other. As she accompanied him on every military campaign in which the young man involved, he kept him gifts and care in every break of his battles. And in that situation, and after the death of the emperor, Jehangir, Shah Jahan ascended the throne.
Opposite me on the bench where I sat, staring at the time but still in the clear waters of this pond garden, the Taj Mahal seemed to whisper in his ear that story ...
... disgrace not long in coming. Had already had twelve children, and love was even stronger than the first day. Being in the battlefield of Burhanpur, was told that his wife's thirteenth birth was complicated. Desperate dropped everything and ran to meet him. However, doctors could do nothing to save her. Arjumand, his beloved Mumtaz Mahal, died while giving birth to her son.
The year was 1630 and everything changed in the life of the Emperor. Was empty forever, and shut himself alone and killed at the Red Fort that stood on the bank of river Yamuna. He spent the last years of his life, but soon ordered across the river, build a mausoleum for his beloved who survive them, as a token of eternal love. Abandoned by all, stripped of their successors from their own kingdom, he spent every day looking out the windows of the fort how were built stone by stone, the eternal abode of Arjumand. Eighteen years later, and completed the Taj Mahal, in 1648, the remains of Mumtaz Mahal were taken to the Mausoleum.