Directly or indirectly, there are many people involved in many charitable activities all over the world. By doing Charity work unconditionally we get some kind of inner satisfaction & fulfillments. Charity work in layman’s word means the donation of money. But Charity really means giving our efficiency with Devotion in the form of our time, skills, wealth, knowledge, power, position, technology....yes anything in service of the God which includes humanity work.
Types of Charity Work:
A. Charity Work at Material platforms by giving food, clothes, shelter, medicine & money. Charity by giving material things is good welfare activities especially at the time of emergency but can’t uplift the society or resolve the issues permanently.
B. Charity Work at Spiritual platform: THE HIGHEST CHARITY WORK is to UPLIFT THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS of the society by learning, practicing, & sharing the SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE which will uplift our discipline, morality, behavior, wisdom, enthusiasm, efficiency, health, ethics, relationships, happiness and thus indirectly IMPROVE OUR FAMILY, HEALTH, PROFESSIONAL & SOCIOECONOMIC LIVES and also give us some common sense to CHOOSE RIGHT POLITICAL LEADERS which will improve our NATION’s LIFE... ..LOL....a win-win strategy.
HUMAN LIFE is NOT a JOURNEY to RESOLVE the MATERIAL PROBLEMS of LIFE but it IS a VOYAGE for SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.
Spiritual Knowledge also saves us from the repeated Birth-Death cycle, the permanent solution of birth, disease, aging & death. NO BIRTH means NO school, work, house or spouse means NO HEADACHE...LOL 🤩😎🤪.
Why is Charity necessary for our Spiritual development?
1. By default our minds are possessive of the things earned or maintained by us like our skills, power, position, knowledge, workplace, wealth, our family...etc and including our own body.
2. Possessiveness brings the agitation, anger & greed which can hamper our spiritual development.
3. Many times we have seen it that too much wealth is cause for degradation of the spiritual culture if not utilized properly.
4. We are not proprietor of this world, at the end of the day nothing remain with us. So ideally speaking we should cultivate the quality of Charity to gradually diminish the possessiveness from materiality and redirect our energy toward the Spirituality.
Lord Krishna in Gita has spoken everything about Charity. We should do our homework before giving out the Charity.
Bg 17.20 -- Charity given out of duty, without expectation of return, at the proper time and place, and to a worthy person is considered to be in the mode of goodness.
Bg 17.21 -- But charity performed with the expectation of some return, or with a desire for fruitive results, or in a grudging mood is said to be charity in the mode of passion.
Bg 17.22 -- And charity performed at an impure place, at an improper time, to unworthy persons, or without proper attention and respect is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Vedabase.com
It is easy to say, but difficult to follow. I am in the same boat with everyone else, or I may even be behind, but thinking in the right direction will help us to go in the right direction.
Have a Charitable Day.
Thank You.
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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:
I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra.
I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......).
FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com . Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Hearing & reading these scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting Vedic Mantras daily purify our senses, nourishing our heart ( Soul ), are transcendental to our consciousness, uplifting to our emotions and thus perfect our Free Will. Otherwise this powerful material world will degrade us.
It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook/Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone/Google Pexels search to collect some data.
Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God ( Krishna , Absolute Truth ).
NOTE:
Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.
We can follow either the Quran, Bible, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us , elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. ( whichever way we can understand the God, Form or Formless..or Universal Consciousness or Energy ...etc ).
Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction ( means image, picture...etc ) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes.
I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person ( not a abstract or some kind of light ) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.
Bg 9.17 -- I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.
Bg:13-12:-- Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).
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