Motive Matters in Charity – Story
A woman was cleaning her home.
“Ma…ma… please give some biksha”.
The lady of the house came out and saw a beggar begging for some alms.
She called her five years old daughter who was playing on the street.
She took the rice with her own hands, put it in the vessel and placed the vessel on the hands of her daughter and told her to offer it into the beggar’s bowl.
The beggar, who received it, next, went to the neighbor’s house to beg.
The lady of that house also called her daughter who was playing and asked her to give alms to the beggar by taking rice using the daughter’s small palms.
Times have rolled on.
Both the women became old.
Both their daughters grew up and became adults.
They also continued their dharma in the way shown by their mothers.
One day, both the old ladies died and went to heaven.
There, that first lady found a place in heaven.
The other got a lower rank in the lower world.
Immediately, she cried out to God:
“Both of us did charity similarly. I have been given lower world after death whereas she has got heavenly life.”
The God said:
“The first woman took rice with her big hand and gave that rice in the child’s hand and asked her to donate with the intention that her child should continue to do this charity after her.
But, thinking that if you take it with your own hands, the rice will cost a lot, You took it with your child’s hand and did the charity to others.
The action of both is the same. However, the thoughts and motives are different,” the God said.
So do any action with higher thoughts. It leads to satisfaction and a sense of contentment.
Actions for the common good are more powerful than actions for selfish gain.
Motive Matters in Charity.
Selfless motive will always stand high in God’s scales of justice.
Selfless services will definitely be recognized by the God, ie, Krishna.
So, the message is:
Do Charity as much as possible, but just as a duty. Without any motives. Even getting Punya should not be our goal. It is our duty to help others.Â
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