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Hearty charity of Facebook's Zuckerberg
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Some people are immensely rich but filthy poor in generosity while very few are truly rich and largehearted.
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Some people are immensely rich but filthy poor in generosity while very few are truly rich and largehearted. They can liberally loosen their purse string to exercise their benevolence. They can prove what they are — true human beings who feel for humanity. Others chase after the riches but miss the basic rhythms of life — too tempted to be deviated from the righteous path. Yes, the inner peace and harmony merrily elude them. They are utterly poor souls!
Well, two exciting news has just broken. It must have lifted the heart and soul of countless people. It’s an announcement of an act of philanthropy by none other than Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Being sensible he chose the most joyful occasion – the birth of his beloved daughter Max, to make public a ground-breaking announcement of donating 99% of his total share of wealth towards charity. Of course, it needs tremendous courage and inner awakening to take such a decision. Mark wants that the next generation should not face the menace of poverty and the worry of ill-health as we have now. He believes that man’s inner potentialities must not be shrunken by other external shortcomings and the lack of education. He wishes that all be equally empowered to express themselves in every possible manner. Very understandably, Mark knows how to control the money and how best to use it instead of being controlled, or even consumed by it.
He perhaps does not want to cling to that which will never make him a good human being. Yes, what is quite clear is that Zuckerberg owns the wealth but it did not own him. That is truly admirable and inspiring for the world to know. It’s an example worth emulating by other tycoons as well. So that they can at least stop losing their sleep guarding their stacks of dollars. Some philosopher has rightly said that tonnes of money of a tycoon is far less meaningful than the golden mountain or the beauty of streams in a green landscape that never fail to make every one joyful and merry. The open scenery, a pleasant feast for the eyes, soothes the pangs of everyone’s heart while the huge piles of dollars make the owner’s greed more concrete and the mind more confused and heart less cheerful. Not even .001% of the total wealth has any lucky magnate ever used personally in his life time. Is it not a huge paradox?
What an inevitable truth that when we die we cannot take along even the dust that whole lot of money gathers over the years. But, we lose ourselves in the wilderness of greed which only strips us of other good qualities.
Envy and arrogance litter our minds, anger and angst make us whined! This is the malady of the treasured coins!!
By Salil Gewali
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