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CHARITY AT HOME
Tejinder Narang
“Charity begins at home”. This implies
enabling the “soul or self” for merger with its Origin or Supreme Self. So long
as the “soul” struggles to survive in sheltered bodies of life and death; keeps
on settling karmic rentals on daily basis; creates additional karmic
liabilities, how can such a distressed “being” be a Charitable? When mind is
polluted with fire of five perversions, sentiments of self-less service with
humility and devotion cannot emerge.
Mother Threasa, an evolved soul, practised charity
of compassion as a medium of Divine Mercy as attitudinal dedication and not for
any public demonstration. Says Jesus “let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward
thee openly”. Mystic concept of Charity is the emancipation of soul rather than
temporal comforts riddled with pain and pleasures.
Commercial kindness to “Rob Peter
to pay Paul” carries karmic retribution. Guru Nanak’s concept of service to mankind
embodies three conditions— one’s earnings must be honest, offered with
remembrance and gratitude to the Lord and those beneficiaries must utilise
amenities for honest living too. Donating indiscriminately to institutions of
questionable integrity or exploiters or tortures of living entities is
forbidden due to severest Karmic reprisal to all participants in the string. Economising
on five elements of Nature—water, earth, air, fire, ether (sky) including
environmental cleanliness, frugal lifestyles are also akin to Charity.
Unfortunately visible charity of
display of wealth is generally prioritized over righteousness of self. That is why such services prove to be of a
limited utility. How can those who are uncharitable to their own Self prove to
be charitable to others?
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