What appears on the surface may have deep hidden truth. A disconnected "being" feels quite fearful and insecure. When an insecure being tries to gather security, through worldly means, he starts becoming more and more insecure.
The discontented "being" tries to get that contentment by earning more and more money. The more money he earns, the more discontented he becomes. On the surface, he appears to be wealthy, yet deep down he continues to become poorer. Somehow his mind is trapped in the loop and he is not able to see the reality inside. The disconnected "being" further tries to overcome the fear by getting power and positions. The more power, from VIP to VVIP to MIP treatment, there is more fear of losing that power. Some people try to gather and demonstrate similar power within their own families and organizations by dominating the people around them with physical or verbal aggression, being just an appearance on the surface with deep insecurity within.
Similarly, the ones who apparently accept domination also have hidden reality deep inside them. Some of such beings have greed beneath. Few people in British-ruled India, who sided with the rulers and acted against their country, preferred greed to the freedom of their country. Some such beings have ambitions deep down. They feel that by sycophancy, they will be able to please the mighty and get good positions. Some have multiple fears and try to overcome one fear by accepting the domination. For example, fear of being homeless to accept the dominance of a spouse, and fear of hunger to accept the dominance of a manager in an orphanage.
The world is full of problems, with hardly any solutions, because we hardly examine the hidden truth beneath. We keep handling the problems at their surface. As if we are just trying to run away from the real problem. The real problem appears to be the deep-lying fear and insecurity. We do not examine the nature of this fear and insecurity and jump to the solutions. Like a doctor jumping to prescribe medicines to a patient without proper examination. The consequences of such a hurry are not a matter of guess. The funniest and the saddest part is that we have seen such consequences all our life and yet we do not want to change the way we look at life.
If we examine that fear and insecurity, we will soon realize that like a lost baby, we are just looking for the mother. This world tries to make the baby happy by tempting him with different things. It offers baby food and toys of different kinds. The baby feels that this will make him happy. He understands that all these things are available in this world for money and he blindly starts running after the money. In the process, he realizes that fears and insecurities are increasing as he is earning more and more money. He needs some people to share his fears and insecurities and he forms friendship. Two insecure people try to share insecurities with each other and try to make each other secure. In the end, the baby becomes insecure about the friendship itself.
The baby marries and gets kids with the hope of getting that security from a relationship, that has great value in the eyes of society to realize soon that the other person is also equally insecure and the kids soon fly away to fulfill their dreams to become secure. The baby feels that he will get that "missing love" by ruling the world. He aims for better positions and more power. More and more people bow down before him. They come to him to seek favors. The baby soon realizes that all that the power means is either to play into the hands of the more powerful or to play to the gallery and nothing beyond that.
By this time, the baby gets old and the time to leave this world is quite near. He is still yearning for that love. "Love" that can not be there in fear and insecurity. "Love" is always there and yet not available because we never wanted the same. Somehow, we mistook material possessions, insecure relationships, and power and positions for "love" and wasted our lives chasing a mirage.
Probably it needs just an honest observation of the appearances to know the hidden truth beneath. The moment, we get to know the hidden truth, we will no longer be deceived by appearances to waste our lives. The Divine is always ready to connect to us with "infinite love", it is we who are running away from Him the whole of our life. However, as the age grows, this honest examination becomes more and more difficult. More so because the longer we live such a life of deception the more difficult it is to accept that we have wasted such precious time out of stupidity. In order to prove ourselves to be intelligent, we ruin our lives in greater stupidity.
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