Meaning of Charity

Charity Meaning   What Charity actually means? Material piety like donating clothes or money to poor is good, but it gives only temporary pi...

Charity Meaning 

What Charity actually means? Material piety like donating clothes or money to poor is good, but it gives only temporary pious credit points to enjoy a higher material realm and does not help to attain spiritual perfection or to return to one's original home in the spiritual world. Spiritual perfection can be achieved only via devotional service to God. Devotional service can easily be done by donating to poor the foods which have first been offered to God , or to help propagate God consciousness

Charity Meaning

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We have information from the Bhagavad-gita (3.10-11) that Lord Brahma, after giving rebirth to the conditioned souls within the universe, instructed them to perform sacrifices and to lead a prosperous life. With such sacrificial performances the conditioned souls will never be in difficulty in keeping body and soul together. Ultimately they can purify their existence. They will find natural promotion into spiritual existence, the real identity of the living being. A conditioned soul should never give up the practice of sacrifice, charity and austerity, in any circumstances. The aim of all such sacrifices is to please the Yajna-pati, the Personality of Godhead; therefore the Lord is also Praja-pati. - Bhagavatam 2.4.20 Purport

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Meaning of Charity

Charity to the poor is sometimes given out of compassion, but if a poor man is not worth giving charity to, then there is no spiritual advancement. In other words, indiscriminate charity is not recommended in the Vedic literature.(BG 17.20)

Charity is for the purification of the heart.
-- Bhagavad Gita As It Is 18.5 Purport by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada

Similarly, if a person gives charity to a suitable person but without respect and without attention, that sort of charity is also said to be in the mode of darkness.
-- Bhagavad Gita As It Is 17.22 Purport by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada

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Those who can understand analytically what kind of performances are in what modes of material nature are actually wise; those who consider all kinds of sacrifice or food or charity to be the same cannot discriminate, and they are foolish. There are missionary workers who advocate that one can do whatever he likes and attain perfection. But these foolish guides are not acting according to the direction of the scripture. They are manufacturing ways and misleading the people in general. -- Bhagavad Gita As It Is 17.7 Purport by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada

There are many charitable foundations which offer their gifts to institutions where sense gratification goes on. Such charities are not recommended in the Vedic scripture. Only charity in the mode of goodness is recommended.(BG 17.21)

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Every day we drink water, we eat, we work, etc. So any routine work which we do we should do it as service to God. For example, we eat, so we should first offer to God, then we work in our profession, we should do it for God by donating some percentage to help propagate God consciousness and to facilitate our own God consciousness. If we buy vegetables, we should remember in our minds that the vegetables are for offering food for God. This is the secret of all secrets how to live a God conscious lifestyle for which this human life is obtained. See practical tips here

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