Lighthouse

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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* Romantic scenes do not have real life lovers. Still they
can generate feeling of love. Action scenes, though not real, can evoke anger and passion. If vulgar poster of a movie can attract the viewers to a movie and after seeing the movie if the viewer longs to meet the actor/actress in person, then it is futile to raise
questions against the effectiveness of deity of a God. In fact, Murti Pooja is a process or a journey from form to formlessness. Once this is realized, all the questions would become silent. All our senses are constantly occupied somewhere or the other. If our senses get connected to a deity, they will be free from other weaker attractions. A sadhak looking intimately towards the face of the deity losses himself into that darshan. He drowns himself in the eyes of the deity. In the retina of the eyes of the deity he finds vitaragata. Thus, starting from a deity which has a form, he travels to the other end which is formless vitaragatą. A common man cannot travel directly to the formlessness. He needs a medium which has a form. The sense of sweetness has no form, however to reach that sense one has to rely on something which has a form and that is sugar. If one has to reach the sense of fragrance, he has to definitely rely on a flower which has a form. One can compare a deity in a temple with a window in the house. Window of a house has a form because the house has a form. However, from this window which has a form, if one looks into the skies he enters into formlessness. The window becomes a medium for this. If someone would say that formlessness is visible in the window it would be considered madness. The simple argument could be how
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