There are unlimited organizations spread throughout the world to help the humanity, especially poor, needy, impoverished. There are so many helping hands those who are supporting this organisations to run them by providing money, time and so many other required things. Some of these organizations provides free schooling, free food, clothes, women empowerment, shelter, medical help, some of them plant trees and other constructive things for cause of better world.
Our vedic literatures also encourages these activities which will help the needy but they also recommends to offer something higher with basic needs which will help them in next life too. Scriptures tells us there are 8.4 millions of species, and human life is junction to escape from the cycle of repeated birth and death by acquiring spiritual merits and credits. For example if you help a person by providing him food that will not help him in anyway in next life, but if you offer a prasad(food which is offered to God) he will get benefitted.
Prabhpuad gives a nice example, he says if someone is drowning, however expensive shirt he may be wearing we will not try to save the shirt but we will try to protect the person, showing compassion to drowning man's shirt is foolishness, similarly compassion only on the basis of body is useless, the soul should be prioritized. Somehow or other people should be given a chance to practice spirituality, so those who are humanitarians they should make sure that they are not helping person only in this life but in next life too.
When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (incarnation of Lord for this age) was in Puri, He ordered his servants to offer food to all poor people assembled during Cart Festival, but He also made sure that everyone is chanting the glories of God and Holy name so that they can get eternally benefitted. Even previously various subjects like nyaya, philosophy, law, vyakaran(grammar) would be taught by somehow or other interconnecting with God and His teachings. Lord Krsna in Gita 16.23 tells everything should be in accordance with scriptures else that will not have any perfection nor peace nor happiness.
So let's not waste the time by simply fulfilling the external needs of people but truly satisfying the internal need of soul by providing them God consciousness according to scriptures, which will help person in his future lifetimes and eventually lead him to reach ultimate destination too!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Our vedic literatures also encourages these activities which will help the needy but they also recommends to offer something higher with basic needs which will help them in next life too. Scriptures tells us there are 8.4 millions of species, and human life is junction to escape from the cycle of repeated birth and death by acquiring spiritual merits and credits. For example if you help a person by providing him food that will not help him in anyway in next life, but if you offer a prasad(food which is offered to God) he will get benefitted.
Prabhpuad gives a nice example, he says if someone is drowning, however expensive shirt he may be wearing we will not try to save the shirt but we will try to protect the person, showing compassion to drowning man's shirt is foolishness, similarly compassion only on the basis of body is useless, the soul should be prioritized. Somehow or other people should be given a chance to practice spirituality, so those who are humanitarians they should make sure that they are not helping person only in this life but in next life too.
When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (incarnation of Lord for this age) was in Puri, He ordered his servants to offer food to all poor people assembled during Cart Festival, but He also made sure that everyone is chanting the glories of God and Holy name so that they can get eternally benefitted. Even previously various subjects like nyaya, philosophy, law, vyakaran(grammar) would be taught by somehow or other interconnecting with God and His teachings. Lord Krsna in Gita 16.23 tells everything should be in accordance with scriptures else that will not have any perfection nor peace nor happiness.
So let's not waste the time by simply fulfilling the external needs of people but truly satisfying the internal need of soul by providing them God consciousness according to scriptures, which will help person in his future lifetimes and eventually lead him to reach ultimate destination too!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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