Nomophobia
While Brahma was seeing into the distant future, He murmured: This NOMOPHOBIA might be the nemesis of man.
These murmurs were heard across the universe, and Indra was disturbed, He hastened to Brahma and craved permission to ask a question. Permission was granted.
Indra: Sire, you murmured about Nomophobia. This word is so mysterious and incomprehensible.
Spake Brahma: Listen, O Indra. This word is made up of NO, MO(bile) and phobia. This is a new manifestation of FEAR, which will be apparent in in the 53rd century after the start of Kali yuga, also then known as 21st century AD.
Indra: Sire, why is this dreadful entity being allowed?
Brahma: Dear son, I am the Originator of knowledge. I permitted only the invention of mobile phones. A noble device, if used in righteous way. But man has base tendencies too. He can pervert any noble object. He will use mobile phones in a licentious ways, and thus allow it to dominate himself.
Indra: How is this phobia to be identified, Sire?? Man must be imparted this profound knowledge too, in my humble opinion.
Brahma: That will be so, Indra. Man has a right to knowledge. It is no sin to acquire it. In fact, it would be a grave injustice if this knowledge is withheld. But, son, it is for man to utilize that knowledge.
Indra: Sire, enlighten me.
Brahma: It's the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. This fear will be about running out of battery, credit, losing one's handset, being in places out of network coverage etc. Those suffering from fear of being in closed places like dungeons will suffer even more, as they may be out of the reach of the network coverage. And those dungeons, called basements, will be for righteous pursuits.
Indra: Sire, if I might ask. How wide spread will this phobia be??
Brahma: In the said century, WWW would be widespread. A godling called GOOGLE will help those men who are willing to be informed. About 53% of users will be affected by not having network coverage. Men will suffer more than women, because it is not the law that women must suffer more than men. About 48% of females and 58% of males will have manifested feelings of anxiety. Many would never switch off their mobile phones, even while they are sleeping. O Indra, can you foresee the ill effects of the this phobia.
Indra: In my humble opinion, Sire, there will be wasteful expenditure of energy and resources. Mobile sets will run down fast, batteries will pack up quickly. Sire, only those artisans who make them will benefit by wordly riches. In an earlier audience, Sire, you had brought out the ill effects of such matters on the environments. Sire, this phobia is going to produce lots of new mess in the already messed up Kaliyuga. Sire, is their any remedy?? Sire, you must have the solution too, after all you not omniscient and omnipotent for nothing.
Brahma: I am pleased, O Indra, that you now have understood the perils of this fear. As for remedies, recall that the timeless message of Bhagavad Gita.
This fear is generated because of obsessive infatuation of worldly lusts. In this case, the lust will manifest as excessive desire to talk and chat. Men dread this phobia more than any other fear. Lusts enslave the senses of man. Man instead of mastering the senses and employing them for righteous pursuits, falls slave to them. Thus his freedom of will is weakened more and more. Those humans, who are enlightened about the righteous use of mobile phones and perils of unrighteous use thereof will not suffer. There will be few of them, but then those few are the ones who uphold the order of the world from crumbling.
Go forth, Indra, and impart this knowledge to humans. Don't be disheartened that only a few would absorb this sacred teaching.
Thus ends the dialog between Indra and Brahma about Nomophobia, and is part of the Mobile Phone Upanishad, and penned down and published by Veda Vyasa.
PS: Mobile phone was invented, WWW was invented and Googleji, the presiding deity of search engines, has manifested itself. Verily, Indra went into the 21st Century and verified these figures of affliction with the help of lord Google.
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