Lighthouse

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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control of private companies. The National Water Policy already contains suggestions to this effect. Water is an easily flowing element, however the problem of water is hard enough to break someone's head. The intention is not to obstruct anyone's enjoyment; but basic human values would demand that enormous wastage of water is stopped. This is not to oppose happiness, but to oppose the imminent (that too in near future) problem. These thoughts will definitely set a thought process in the minds of Holi revelers but that would be at the superficial level. When even a single drop of water is spilled, countless single cell creatures in that drop get killed. The water spilled during Holi is unfiltered water and thus the possibility of billions of nano living creatures in that water getting destroyed, is certain. If thought from this angle, the opposition to playing Holi with water reaches a much higher pedestal. At the higher level of spiritualism, all worldly enjoyments become prohibited. Use or consumption of a material object is not a sources of enjoyment, real enjoyment comes from attaining the qualities of atma. To move towards that object, the lower level of enjoyment need to be curtailed or sacrificed. However, as the discussion here is at intellectual level, the issue is dealt with intellectually. Here is something important. We are living our life. However, what is the aim of our life? Being born as a human being is something extraordinary, and hence the object of this life also has to be extraordinary. There are two important days in our life. i. The day we are born. ii. The day we realize, why we are born.
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