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Right Understanding to Help Others
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happy. They would be constantly thinking of ways to oblige others.
More important than a person’s external actions of obliging
others are his internal intents (bhaav) to help. This intention should
always be present. If you have the money, your intention should
be to use it to lessen someone else’s misery. If you have such
knowledge, use it to explain things to people to alleviate their
misery. Help Others with whatever assets you have. If you cannot
do this, at least maintain an obliging nature. What is an obliging
nature? It is to Help Others.
Your nature would be beautiful if you maintained an obliging
nature. Simply giving away money is not considered an obliging
nature. Whether you have money to give away or not, your
intentions should be to Help Others. You should at least have
intentions to help those who come to you. To donate money or
not depends on your ability to do so.
You do not oblige others by simply giving them money.
Giving money is dependent upon a person’s ability to give. All
you have to do is make sure that you have the constant internal
intent to oblige others.
Goal of Life
Without a goal in life, this life is meaningless. You earn
money, you eat, drink and enjoy yourself but you still have
worries. How can this be your aim in life? What is the point of
a human life that goes to waste? Having been born a human,
what should you do to attain the goal of a human life? If you
want worldly happiness, you should give whatever you have to
others. You can expect happiness only if you make others happy,
otherwise misery will come to you for making others miserable.
Understand the law of this world and of all the religions in
just this one statement: ‘He who wants happiness should make
others happy and he who wants misery, should make others
miserable.’ Do whatever suits you. Someone may question about