# The World of XPILAR - PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTEST WEEK #121 - THE REALITY OF HUMEN LIVES

in hive-185836 •  2 years ago  (edited)

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Hello friends. Greetings to all steemains from Sri lanka. Today I am going to take part of this contest in WORLD OF XPILAR community. Frist I would like to @axeman for this contest. I am a Buddhist. My religion teaches us about like this.

What you can see in this photo is a matchbox and two matches. Yes you are right it is. But if you look more closely, it is seen in a dark environment. Also, you will see those two matches as two people. That's what I tried to show in this photo. My aim was to symbolize the burning with its flame. There are two people, a woman and a man. That is the surface view of this photo and I wanted to give a deeper meaning.This explanation is my opinion and someone else may give it a different meaning. People live in society, so people build social relationships. There, the main relationship that is essential for the existence of the world is the love relationship between men and women. Because without it, there is no new generation of life in this world. Also, it is natural that the first attraction between a woman and a man turns into love and then into lust.

Here they bond with each other with love and passion. But the truth is that the sorrow and fear generated through these bonds is more powerful than the fire of lust. According to the Dharma I believe in, it is stated that sorrow and fear are caused by love, affection and lust. Just as the couple symbolized by the two matchsticks burns with passion, as time goes by, they have to burn out due to the fear and sadness caused by the bonds. Isn't this the reality of human life?

In the photo, the couple, i.e. the matchsticks, are kept on top of the firebox full of matches, which is the society of people. It tried to state that gender bonds remain confined within the boundaries set by the society and the meaning of all these matters is briefly stated in the following Pali stanza text.

" prematho jayathi soko
prematho jayathi bayan
prematho wippa muththassa
naththi soko kutho bayan "

"Rathiya jayathi soko
rathiya jaayathi bayan
rathiya wippa muththassa
naththi soko kutho bayan "

If there is a something get it. I will hope you will get something in my article. Thank you so much my friends who will read me. And I would like to invite @saku49539, @sewminisilva and @dilums to participate this contest.

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