Lighthouse

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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feels happy and contended by the picture displayed on the wall paper of his mobile phone. He captures the pictures of his loved ones, occasions and scenes on his mobile camera. Certainly, all this is not without any meaning or is not madness. During one of our vihara, we were camping in a school building. A scene witnessed at that place is still fresh in the memory. In a chart hung in the corridors of the school there was a picture of some beautiful and colourful flowers, which of course had no fragrance. However, I saw a number of black-bees hovering around this picture (possibly these black bees were not intellectuals!).
mellectuals!). Ask the value of a photograph of her son to a mother who has lost her only son at a very young age. What else does she have to express her boundless love and feeling for her departed son? What does she get by continuously looking at the picture of her son ? What happens to her if she losses that picture? The text book of science contain diagram of a heart. The text book of geography contain locations of cities, towns, roads etc. None of these are real heart or real city / town / road. Still these diagrams help us in getting to know the real heart or the real roads etc. Everyone knows how useful is GPS on a computer or a mobile. The perfume bottles depicted in attractive and colourful advertisements in the electronic media attract feelings of the viewers. The delicacies seen in T.V. programmes like Master Chef or Khana Khajana etc. are not real. Still they evoke mouthwatering feelings.
Horror films showing ghosts etc. do not have real ghosts. Still they can generate fear.
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