Recently I went to my secondary school to collect some certificates. It was very strange for me that no one could recognize me including my class teacher although I was school SSC topper and received many medals from school for this achievement. I contemplated on this fact and came to an understanding that although I was topper, it was my personal merit and benefit but I neither helped anyone nor appreciated a single person including my teachers, I was just thinking about me and my carrier and not about others, I never worked for community merit. Similar thing happens with many, they are just bothered about themselves, their carrier, their family, own welfare and that's all, others doesn't exist for them. They don't want to help others due to their selfishness and at the end of the day others also don't remember or bothered about such people, everything you do comes back around.
Like me there are thousands of toppers from universities but no one cares for them because degree and education doesn't pleases the heart but love and care offered to someone with sacrifice makes the heart content full. Welfare means to offer a help to people to support their basic needs. Lord Krishna in Bhagavatam encourages people to do welfare activities such as planting trees and digging well, tree will offer fruits and shed and well will offer water to the needy which will result in attaining supreme result. One must do some welfare before his ultimate farewell that is death by developing attitude of selflessness.
But what's the highest need of person?, to love and to be loved limitlessly which is only possible with God. To connect person to God is the highest welfare activity in the world, as Prabhupad says, "A person engaged only in ministering to the physical welfare of human society cannot factually help anyone. Temporary relief of the external body and the mind is not satisfactory. The real cause of one’s difficulties in the hard struggle for life may be found in one’s forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. When a man is fully conscious of his relationship with Kṛṣṇa, he is actually a liberated soul, although he may be in the material tabernacle".
So welfare work like providing material necessities will help person temporarily but making him aware of his relationship with God will make him happy eternally. So let's not waste this life or die doing nothing substantial in our as well as other's life but experience and give people a rare gift of God consciousness before our ultimate farewell(death).
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Like me there are thousands of toppers from universities but no one cares for them because degree and education doesn't pleases the heart but love and care offered to someone with sacrifice makes the heart content full. Welfare means to offer a help to people to support their basic needs. Lord Krishna in Bhagavatam encourages people to do welfare activities such as planting trees and digging well, tree will offer fruits and shed and well will offer water to the needy which will result in attaining supreme result. One must do some welfare before his ultimate farewell that is death by developing attitude of selflessness.
But what's the highest need of person?, to love and to be loved limitlessly which is only possible with God. To connect person to God is the highest welfare activity in the world, as Prabhupad says, "A person engaged only in ministering to the physical welfare of human society cannot factually help anyone. Temporary relief of the external body and the mind is not satisfactory. The real cause of one’s difficulties in the hard struggle for life may be found in one’s forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. When a man is fully conscious of his relationship with Kṛṣṇa, he is actually a liberated soul, although he may be in the material tabernacle".
So welfare work like providing material necessities will help person temporarily but making him aware of his relationship with God will make him happy eternally. So let's not waste this life or die doing nothing substantial in our as well as other's life but experience and give people a rare gift of God consciousness before our ultimate farewell(death).
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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