THE NATURE OF CHARITY

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
— The Dalai Lama

Charity is giving somebody something who is in need but without any expectation.
Charity is providing food, Education and fund for Orphanage, Aged care, economically poor countries, Countries suffered from war, natural disasters and many more. There are so many Organisations doing charity for different sectors and differenent purposes.

All of us in this world do charity by one way or the other. As a human being we have a soft heart which aches for somebody for different reasons. We become very emotional especially while watching Television . We see people dying in Natural disaster like Tsunami, Earth quakes, flood, Tornado, War affected country, Remote underdeveloped countries, Air crash, Accidents and many more similar incidents. There are some disturbing incidents when our eyes are filled with tears, heart tears apart. Why is this emotion God has created in us?
That’s LOVE….We feel doing something for those people who have suffered in difficult crisis. This feeling is willingness or thought to help somebody.

Charity is mainly done in three ways.
1.Mentally (willingness to come forward to help at any time )
2.Physically( Helping physically )
3.Financially( Helping with Fund)

Most of us do all the three in different occasions at different times at our priority, nothing wrong. Actually If you see , we are all so busy in our daily routines that we plan one week in advance for the week including going to Sunday mass. How nice it would be if all of us also plan montly once or twice spending our one hour time in helping people in Aged care, Orphange and something similar to this as volunteers.

Most of us answer will be , “Its nice to hear but to do in practical is difficult”. Everybody will have reasons not to do only. But we should also understand that we usually waste time by doing unimportant work , instead if we spend our quality time helping people at Orphanages, Aged care or something similar. How worthwhile is that one hour time? This is not to impress somebody or show off somebody. This becomes your part of charity.
This is physically helping charity.

Think back somewhere you would have helped somebody without expectation . This experience would give you the real happiness and the inner satisfaction in you is “PEACE” .

In this beautiful world, we have many differences in many ways like religion, language, country, rich , poor, dark, white, tall, short, beautiful, ugly, literate, illiterate etc. Instead of making categorised differences among the human community if all of us serve the needy, it certainly makes a HUGE difference.

There are many people who help others consistently, persistently. Imagine if every human on this planet takes one step to help others by sponsoring a child, you are giving a bright future to that particular child. We are creating powerful treasure on this planet. You are financially helping and this is financial charity.
Yes, one day this earth will be HEAVEN TO HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH LOVE, PEACE AND HARMONY.

THERE WOULD BE NO DIFFERENCES AT ALL.

SO LETS PRACTICE LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AND SERVE PEOPLE WHICH IS SERVING GOD.