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Kovac, Tony. Lightbulb of Man Trapped Thinking. Digital image. MH Marketing Sales Management. 7 Oct. 2014.

Depicted in this photograph is a man trapped inside a lightbulb. Though vague on the surface, this photograph, similar to Siddhartha's journey, symbolically expresses the notion that Siddhartha's journey to enlightenment was one taken initially in the light of someone else's experiences and teachings and more often than not his recurrent dilemmas between structured and self-experiential ways of attaining enlightenment. This recurrent theme- a sense of being trapped in the light of others' experiences - becomes the prevailing source of Siddhartha's complications on the journey. While Siddhartha never completely forgets his objectives for embarking on his journey, he is tangled by the desire to have a woman, to find the balance between experiential and structured teaching, and to combat all the distractions he faces on the journey. Though characterized by a formation of structure in its own respect, Siddhartha's journey refers to his innate desire to experience enlightenment by utilizing his own experience in the visible world rather than obtain further teachings from those who have never even obtained enlightenment.