Generosity of Clouds

It's raining heavily in Delhi. As if the sky wants to shower its blessings generously. Generosity is a great virtue. We can give only when we have something and do not want to hold on to the same and therefore wish to share. Most of the time, we are in a mode of seeking. We get so many things in life, such as air, water, health, parents, friends, and great human intelligence. Yet, stupidly, we forget the value of all the things we have and keep seeking a few things we do not have. We hold on to the things that we have and become greedy to get more and more things otherwise, how is it possible that a few billionaires in this world have more wealth than the entire humanity put together. If these billionaires also become generous like the clouds, who can stop this Earth from becoming heaven?

I often wonder why people shy away from sharing and being generous. Is this some deep-rooted insecurity? I have seen some of my colleagues who have earned huge money and yet their greed has not reduced. They want to have more comforts, better positions, and more power. Their arrogance goes to the extent that they openly make fun of the people who like to live simply. They keep giving life advice to the younger officers. Probably, the burden of their greed increases to the extent that they start taking alcohol and other intoxicants to dull their consciousness. 

I often wonder as to what makes them so sure about the utility of money and powers, when they see everybody around dying almost each day. We see that the most famous and powerful people in this world have died very young. The most wealthy people have become financially bankrupt. The most powerful people on this Earth have been diagnosed with psychological disorders and the ones not so diagnosed are probably just waiting to be diagnosed because why would any sane person on this Earth accumulate wealth when there is a better use of the money available. 

It is not rocket science to understand that greed makes us heavy and giving makes us light. However, it appears to me that people are so insecure and disconnected internally that they are desperately looking for some anchor. As if someone is deprived of nutrition and looking for multivitamins badly unable to understand that multivitamins are no substitute for good food. We keep visiting different hospitals and consulting different specialists and superspecialists who keep advising different medicines just to make their own shops profitable because they have also invested huge money in their degrees and they want to good return on their investments. Similarly, people disconnected from their inner selves keep looking for different ways to get that security. They seek security in money, power, and connections in different forms. They get some money and then graduate to posh colonies to understand that there will always be people with more money. As their living standard rises, even more money becomes insufficient. If somebody has spent a few thousand crores in marriage, how can a person feel secure by earning a few crores? They get some powers, but there is always someone who has more powers. They keep getting some connections, but the connections do not always work. 

In short, the more we have the more we become insecure. I asked a friend whether his bosses who were insecure when they had 2-3 thousand crores of net worth have become secure now when they have around 10,000 crore net worth. He told me that they are 4 times more insecure now. That is the reality. Everybody sees this reality and yet decides to close his eyes. It is because since childhood, we have taken a wrong road and we do not have the courage to accept that we have taken a wrong road. We are foolishly running towards our death. We are becoming more and more empty and hollow. 

It is not difficult to re-discover that inner connection. We just need to drop the obsession with the falsity for some time. We knew how to remain happy as a baby. Living happily does not require any training. We are born with that intelligence and connection to the true self. We somehow lose that connection on the way. Society trains us to behave madly and always in a state of misery, stress, and unhappiness. We just need to open our eyes and see the reality as it is. If we just observe the young kids for some time, we will soon realize that happiness is always in giving and exploring. By accumulating, we make not only our lives painful but the lives of everyone around us hell. The lives of our kids become painful because, since childhood, they become obsessed with the linear view of life, and the life of everybody around becomes painful because we eat away their resources which could have been used by them for exploration. Thus, out of our stupidity, we make this world a living hell.