The present-day world is so much full of violence and almost empty of love and compassion. We are grossly disconnected from our inner self and therefore we are so discontented that somehow we are running from pillar to post to get a small drop of pleasure. We seek pleasure in different things and the world is ready to sell its products that offer us fun, entertainment, comfort, and luxury. We are so discontented and hungry for pleasure that we buy these products without verification of the facts. In this hurriedness to buy these products, we are ready to pay the price which is quite disproportionate to the quality of the products. However, due to extreme hunger, we are so desperate to buy these products that we are not able to see the price we pay for these products.
The heavy price has to be paid in terms of time. We have to either pay money to buy these products or use power to get them for free. In either case, we need to invest a lot of time and energy to get the money or power. We fail to realize that time is life. Effectively, we are investing our lives to earn money and power. That means we are spending our lives to buy the pleasures. We do not somehow observe the conspiracy whereby the big companies are taking away our lives to give us little money in exchange. We buy little pleasure over the weekends with that money. In a way, we give 5 days of life in exchange for a few hours of life over the weekend.
The worst part of the deal is that the entire society conspires to make us realize that this is the only way. There is no way to connect to our inner being and be happy naturally. Pleasure is propagated as the aim of life. We do not dare to examine the truth and seek more and more pleasure in different forms, that require more and more money and power. Our greed does not stop there. We want more of everything. We want to possess even the people. We want people to satisfy our emotional needs. Our kids, parents, spouses, friends, and relatives become the tools to please us. We become more and more greedy in the process. Due to the inner disconnection none of these possessions is going to make us happy, as we accumulate more things, we feel more and more insecure and due to the false understanding of life, we feel that we need more to be happy.
As we become greedy, we slowly start becoming violent. We get so disconnected from others that we undertake violence in different forms. In a sibling relationship, we want to have more attention from the parents, and more resources at our disposal and that is the reason why we start complaining about our siblings, bullying and fighting against them, and at times cheating them, all different forms of violations. Parents become so frustrated due to their own wrong choices in life that they try to live their dreams through their kids and undertake violence to kill the childhood of their kids. They kill the dreams of their kids and brainwash them to fulfill their dreams.
In societies, many people want to become powerful to corner the resources of society. In order to achieve their targets, they become violent and keep hurting others in different forms. Similar violation exists within and outside the organizations. Within the organizations, there is violence among the employees. Bosses are ready to eat their subordinates away. There is quite unfair competition among the employees. Organizations are fighting among themselves. The bigger fish is eager to eat away the smaller ones. The same equation works among the countries. The bigger and more powerful ones are ready to destroy and capture the smaller ones.
This violence in society will never go away unless we learn to love. Love is not possible unless we connect to our inner being. Whatever we are seeking outside actually exists inside us. All the joy and bliss is inside us. We can keep running away from that our entire life in the search of fun and pleasure but we are never going to get the same. In fact, the more we run after the external pleasure and fun the more we will be deprived of joy and bliss. It is because we get trapped in the falsity and our brain starts believing more and more the falsity. The falsity that fun, entertainment, and pleasure give us joy. The more we believe in this falsity the farther we are from the truth. Out of greed for fun, entertainment, and pleasures, we get more and more fixated on money and power. We give away most of our precious time and energy to earn money and power, and in the process become more and more greedy to the extent of becoming violent in many different forms.
Sometimes we feel that the fun and pleasure are emotional. We seek pleasure in different relations and friendships. We start becoming more and more fixated on our relations and as we become fixated, we start becoming anxious and fearful of losing them. As and when a situation arises where a relationship is broken, we become quite sad. We become greedy in relationships and that is why we become violent. We become jealous as and when we see our friend being engaged with someone else. Sometimes jealousy goes to the extent of taking revenge.
Probably there is no hope for society unless we learn to love ourselves. Unless we reestablish that inner connection, we are not going to ever feel what love actually means. Unless we know what love is we will keep running after the mirage and keep getting disappointed and again keep running harder. That frustration and discontentment will always bring greed. Greed for the products and feelings sold by the great salesmen of the world. We just need a little awareness to see what this propaganda and advertisements are doing to our lives. Little awareness can save lives from violence and make human life beautiful. Therefore, I firmly believe that humanity should invest in wisdom rather than knowledge and information. We already have enough information and knowledge and with little wisdom, we have already made it a trophy and fighting with each other to prove our intelligence. That has become another tool for violence. We need wisdom to understand that we know too little and love to connect to the divine which is omniscient.
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