…contd….
This story stuck with me since
then. That lady still donates only food saying ‘it is ultimate of all ‘Danams’
i.e., charity which is true but I understood that ‘you receive what you give.
Which means we just don’t need food. We require so much more in our life and
hence we should give all that we need to receive them. Hence, am suggesting
various forms of donations to you. If you notice all types of donations can be
started with just Rs.50-100/- only. So, instead of fulfilling one need try to
distribute your ‘money that you wish to distribute’ under various heads. It’s
all in the planning. That’s all!
1. Intellectual
needs: all the donations that I talked about till now will not remove poverty
from the man to whom you’ve give it. It only helps him in his existence. That’s
all! Doesn’t mean it’s not necessary. It’s essential. But ‘give a fish to a man
you feed him for a day. But teach him how to fish and you make him independent
for life’. How to fish is the knowledge. If a street child or the one in
orphanage is given or taught a skill or education, he’ll earn for himself. So,
catering to someone’s education is far better than giving him food for life. If
sponsoring child’s education is not possible then donate items required for
education. Like pencils, notebooks, erasers, Braille papers for blind children
etc. this is ‘vidhya danam’ which is highly meritorious. How’ll you receive it
back? You’ll have a parent who’s ready to educate you. Never thought it was
essential since you had a parent who sent you to school. I know so many parents
(from good families only) who don’t want to give much of education especially
to their girl children since they feel its waste. Next, you’ll be blessed with
masters who’ll give you ‘good’ education. Your understanding capacity can be
higher than others or average persons and that’s biggest of all returns.
2. Share
your know-how. Teach free if you can anything and everything you know. Be it
subject like maths etc or vocational skills like cooking, language, carpentry
etc. you can do individually or in some NGO. Share the know-how you know.
3. Knowledge
apart from being about material subjects can be also about perspective, clarity
of thought, positive thinking and such related with better personality of a
person. When such knowledge is imparted then it’s considered far better ‘danam’
(charity). For this, you don’t even need to spend a single pie. You don’t even
need to spend a single pie. You need not take special time to go somewhere and
teach. Spread this among your family, friends and neighbours. Use every
conversation to show a difference and better perspective to others. This is
exactly where talking about what your Guru said or says comes handy. You can
quote your Guru and spread the good word. You can distribute books which better
our perspective like Swami Vivekananda’s books to people around you. If you
don’t like them, then go to some temple and distribute to people coming there.
Go to places where Gita or Upanishad discourses is going on and even before the
discourse starts, distribute your books at the gate itself and you can leave
the premises too immediately. If you want to do that. There are lots of
orphanages which don’t have much in library. If all the distribution makes you
uncomfortable then give to these organizations. They’ll be glad and the
children there will get some clarity. But remember not to give more than one
copy of a book on a particular topic to such organization.
…contd….
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