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Noble Use of Money
inspection you will find that he is not really poor but in actuality,
plenty of money. This happens because people have not learnt
to collect money in the name of poverty. It has become a business.
Where should you give charity? It should be given to the common
man who does not ask for it, but despite living frugally suffers
a lot from within. They are the ones in difficulty, so give to them,
the middle class.
Know Where Your Money Goes
One person had a flash of gnan. What gnan? He thought
that people would die of severe cold exposure. Winter had
arrived and it got cold in the home. Then what about those
people sleeping on the footpaths? This is a type of a gnan. He
had money. He went and bought a hundred new, inexpensive
woolen blankets of poor quality. The next morning at 4:00 AM
he went around covering whomever he came across sleeping on
the footpath. When he went back a week later, none of the
blankets were to be found. They had sold the new blankets for
money.
He should not have given new blankets, instead he should
have bought old, used ones from a flea market, so that they
could not be sold. If his budget was seventy rupees per blanket,
he could have bought three used blankets for the price of one
new blanket. Then he could have given all three to just one
person who would use it for the purpose intended since no one
would want to buy them.
So in the current time cycle, if you are making a donation,
do so only after giving it a lot of thought. By nature, money of
this era is wrong, because it hardly flows towards good use.
Even when you give to charity, you will only be able to give
after you have given it a lot of consideration. In the past money
was pure and so regardless of where one made a donation, it
went to a good cause.