Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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worth? If the gift is damaged or lost, why should she feel anything? Why can't it be considered a khilauna and forgotten.
A husband giving a saree to his wife on her birthday even though the wife has 65 sarees in the cupboard and another saree is not needed by her, still the saree is gifted to her due to attachment or love for the wife. The wife also lovingly accepts it, because it is a gift from her husband on a special day. A maid who is working in the same house might also be in need of a saree, but the object of your sensitivity as well as the article of gift, both fit into some special feelings.
If you want to teach the letter 'A' (of alphabet) to a child, you must show him an apple first. The picture/image of an apple will help him to establish the relationship between the two. In this way, you can teach him anything and everything. Now, if you ask him "A" for? he will definitely say apple, because he has its image in his mind or whenever he hears "apple", he will say "a for apple". This shows that an object carries so much meaning, which helps to relate and recollect things at a later point
in time.
Just remove the diagram from teaching of science subject or just remove maps
from the geography lessons, and you shall realise the value, utility, fruitfulness of images. When you don't have access to an object in reality, you have to make do with an idol resembling the object.
In the same way, in the absence of physical presence of god, his idol helps us to establish the relationship with him. We will not be able to visualize god in our imagination, if we have not seen him as an idol. A person who never has seen a cow in his life (neither real nor in picture) will not be able to identify the cow even if he sees it. That's why we need idols.
So friends, it is the sentiments, the devotion, the love, the feeling attached to an object personified into the one towards whom all the feelings are directed. It is certainly not a khilauna! Promoting charity or humanity can never be denied, but addressing an idol as a stone and trying to describe the idol as a bejaan patthar repeatedly, hurling a stone towards the temple in outrage and instigating people against it, as if it was a perishable structure; all this makes no sense.
The movie makes a mockery of certain aspects of pooja and aaradhna. It draws attention to the process of giving bath to a deity with a mixture of milk and water and gives a lofty lecture about
PERFECTING YOUTH