Love: One Hundred Quotes and Thoughts With One Hundred Paintings Of Lord Krishna

Email

Whatsapp

Facebook

Pinterest

Twitter

Copy link

Charterd Accountant & Company Secretary by Profession, Mr R N Kogata, having industrial experience of over 25 years at senior level positions, is presently financial adviser to some leading organisations. He started his research and study on Lord Ganesha from 1988 and was, fortunately, joined by Lalita as his wife having similar interests. Mrs Lalita Kogata is a postgraduate and part Company secretary, Presently holding the position of Director in the Udaipur Mahila Urban Co-operative Bank Limited, Udaipur. Both, R.N. Kogata and Lalita are having an artistic background and actively participate in all Kinds of cultural events and social activities. Mr Kogata is also a poet. They are blessed with two sons-Devashish (20) and Kushagra (15). Devashish is also a budding artist and has already more than 700 pencil sketches on Lord Ganesha to his credit.

Mr R N Kogata and Mrs Lalita Kogata probably have the world's biggest creation and collection of more than 9,500 types of statues/idols and paintings of Lord Ganesha and their names appear in the Limca Book of Records for this great achievement.

The Kogata couple has also the honour of creating 1,000 different paintings of Lord Ganesha based on 1,000 names of the elephant-faced god.

Other book authored by them are Maa-The Mother, Pita-The Father, pati-The Husband in the Eyes of Wife, Patni-The Wife in the Eyes of husband, parivaar-Family: the Art of Living life, Bachpan-Childhood: The Gift of God, Insaan, Indian Marriage-Customs and Rituals, and few very inspiring quotation books.

Love can tell, Love gives courage to suffer, Love gives itself, it is not bought; Love is a beautiful necessity of nature, Love means essentially to give, Love is unconquered in battle, Love conquers all; Love is a gift of God; Love is in beggars as in kings; Love is wiser than ambition; Love teaches how to learn and understand; Love gives two souls a single thought; Love makes two hearts beat as one. In short, Love has miracle effects.

Both, your verbal as well as written expression of thoughts, needs the excellent ideas to elaborate and illustrate your particular point, to illuminate your imagination and to pose your perfect personality, and that is the aim of this book, whereby, the lovers can express all their feelings in fewer words but with more grace.

This book contains 100 carefully chosen quotations on Love, mixed, modified and created. Some of the thoughts presented are ours, and others are from the people, who have stood by and worked for the values; some were famous names and some others were ordinary people. We have tried to indicate in the acknowledgement page, names of the persons whose quote we have reproduced wherever we could remember. Any amendment/addition in this regard is most welcome from the learned readers.

Krishna is the God of Love and each of the quotes in this book has a painting of Lord Krishna with Radha to inspire you. The paintings alongside quotes, have been created by our professional artists keeping in mind the theme of each individual quote. We sincerely wish that you benefit from these thoughts and pass them on to others you truly love and care for, in order to inspire them to become better and lovely individuals.

Our sincere thanks are due to Antoine De Saint, Arthur Rubinstein, Bruce Lee, Barbara De Angeles, Elbert Hubbard, Henry Miller, Joan Crawford, Karl Menninger, Keiichi Morisata, Leo F Buscaglia, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Mignon McLaughlin, Oscar Wilde, Pamela de Roy, Rumi, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas A Kempis, Zelda Fitzgerald and other eminent writers as also the Holy Bible; who have given such invaluable thoughts to this world.

We prostrate before our parents Smt Kanchan Devi and Shri Bhairav Lal Kogata, and Smt Kamla Devi Nuwal and the late Prof K.M. Nuwal for their benign blessings that have guided us throughout and made us reach the stage where we find ourselves today. With the expectation of blessings and constructive feedback from all of you.