Bhagavad Gita Ch17 part 12 on 05 December 2021

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OM JANANIM SHARADAM DEVIM RAMAKRISHNAM JAGAD GURUM PADAPADMETAYO SRIDHVA PRANAMAMI MUHOR MUHOHO OM VASUDEVASUDAM DEVAM KAMSACHANURAMARDHANAM DEVAKI PARAMANANDAM KRISHNAM VANDE JAGAD GURUM SARVO PANISHADO GAVO DOGDA GOPALANANDANA PARTHO VACHAH SUDHIR BHOKTA DOGDAM GEETAM RITAM MAHAT MOOKAM KARUTI VACHALAM PANGUM LANGAYATE GIRIM YATKRIPATAMAHAM VANDE PARAMANANDAMADHAVAM Bhagwan Krishna is graphically describing about Dana, the fourth important department in a man's life. This is all part of how to progress from Tamas to Rajas to Sattva and go beyond all the three gunas. So what are the four departments? Food, not only external food but that which goes inside. Yagna, learning high ideals, learning to admire people, respecting revering people who led such a life and are leading such a life is part of this spiritual practice. Revering them, worshipping them and having faith in what they say is part of this progress. Then austerity, whatever we do in this world, we have to practice austerity. Even if a person wants to have high executive post, what tremendous austerity he practices, spending time, energy, attention, sacrificing so many things, which an ordinary man will be totally unwilling to do that. And now we have come to the fourth department, caring and sharing. I gave certain reasons in my last class, the least of which is, it is impossible to be a member of a society unless we learn how to give and take. In fact, there is a law, if we cannot give, we cannot take. Swamiji has given a beautiful illustration. Supposing you are in the room and you bar every door, window so that no air from outside comes. Not only the fresh air from outside doesn't come, but what is inside becomes poisonous very soon and it is self-destructive. So give and take is the law of life. But if we do really talk about charity, that's a wrong word. It is only giving back what we have taken from the universal bank and we have to give it back sooner or later and that is what Hindus emphasize as karma phala. And then we have spoken about how this dhanam, with what attitude it has to be given. We have discussed about sattvika dhanam. That is to say, without desiring anything in return, accepting, Oh Lord, may I come nearer and nearer to you, accepting I would like to be near you by progressing in spiritual life and at the same time, it has to be done because that is the law of life. Anybody who violates any law of life does it only at the cost of his own destruction. So and then the charity or sharing should be done with great reverence, at the right place, at the right time, with the right attitude. That was the essence of what we discussed. In this connection, I have come across a beautiful verse. We see in this world, many people who are absolutely miserable, not only miserly but miserable. And here is a verse which summarizes the condition of such people. That is, if somebody really helps the poor with money or worships a lord, where is it? Imagine there is a temple and it is dilapidated. Nobody is caring to restore it. If a person restores it and then worships the lord Shiva, then he will get infinite amount of punya, merit. There is a poor person, he cannot conduct funeral ceremony. If anybody helps such a helpless person and all these things, the result one gets is as if this person has done one of the greatest yajnas that has been described in our scriptures called Ashwamedha. Those who perform this special yajna, sacrifice called Ashwamedha, he attains to Brahma Loka and lives there for a long time, enjoying the highest human happiness possible. So, can anybody do it? It is one of the costliest, requires money, requires time, requires effort, requires many people assisting such a person. But here are the easy methods. Here you see a person completely helpless, poor. Help him with Shiva Jnani, with the understanding that here is Shiva and here is a temple. At one time, it had seen its glorious days. For some reason, it has been neglected. Restore it and start worship and many people will start coming and gaining the benefit. But the person who restores, he will gain the result of either helping the helpless poor. That is why Swamiji used to say, he coined a word, Dharidra Narayana, Morkha Narayana, Rogi Narayana. A patient who is helpless, serve him as a manifestation of God. Here is an illiterate person, help him to get educated. Looking upon him as Narayana himself. And here is a person who is very, very poor, help him also. Dharidra, Rogi and Morkha. Morkha means not a foolish person, a person who is in need of some help so that he can become a better person. But it also means God has created all sorts of people. There will be some people who are Morkhas. What can poor people do? After all, God has created them in that sense. But do not hate them. Do not look down upon them. Help them to the best of your ability. Pray for them. So in the next life at least, they will become wiser people. And if anybody does it with the proper attitude, such a person, he will attain to the highest Swarga Loka and enjoy there for a long time, which is the result specified in the scriptures for one who is performing Ashwamedha Yaga. But if one does not do it, even when one is capable and everyone is capable, not necessarily that one has to help only money-wise or material-wise. Speaking sweetly, with love, praying for the other persons, that also is one of the greatest services. Our Holy Mother used to say, beautiful saying, meaning if people have got to give something, then without considering, without limit, give as much as possible. Mapo means just measure out. But there are people who cannot. Japo, pray. Speak with them sweetly, lovingly and physically. There are so many people who go to blind people, lame people, etc. Some people visit hospices and speak with those who are suffering from loneliness, about to go to the other world. And these people suffer from terrible loneliness, spend some time with them. They don't expect much. They cannot even enjoy much. But they want somebody speaking lovingly, not as a matter of social duty, but with love, care, consideration. And that is what they really cherish, they really value. But if somebody does not do it, here is another Sanskrit verse, beautiful verse. We see billions of daridras, most wretched people in this world. And Hindus believe in the law of karma. Why are these people living this kind of wretched life? For this reason. Sanskrit verse. By this terrible defect called not being charitable, not sharing and caring a person in the next birth, however wealthy or powerful a person is in this life, he will become a daridra. Daridra means a most wretched person under the most pitiable conditions, suffering terribly without seeing a ray of hope of remedy. Such a person is called a daridra. And when a person is born in that sense, he is likely to commit sins. Sanskrit verse. This person became a daridra, a wretched person, because even though he had and he never shared. Remember very carefully, think very carefully. Suppose there is a poor person and he cannot give, accepting prey. Such a person, even if he prays, he will be born in much better conditions because whatever he has, he has given instinctively. And here a person has but he has not given. Sanskrit verse. And once a person becomes wretched, he becomes very angry, first with others, then with himself, then wants to take revenge. So he doesn't hesitate to steal, to commit murder, even for a small bit. So because of this defect of being born a wretched fellow, he commits many sins. Sanskrit verse. Of course, because he committed a lot of sins, he will go to such a place where he has to pay heavily with compound interest and again be born into a wretched family. So as a wretched person. That's why this continuous, unbreakable cycle continues. Sanskrit verse. Again he becomes a wretched fellow, again he commits sins and again he is born a wretched fellow. But of course, Hinduism is not that heartless. There will come a point, then the person will be, he realizes his mistake, slowly he recovers, everybody will ultimately manifest his divinity. This is the central message of Vedanta. Each soul is potentially divine. However wretched a person may be, a time must come, if nothing awakens that person, at least intolerable suffering brings such a person to my lotus feet, says the Divine Lord. Now I want to share a beautiful story told by Bhagavan Buddha. When Bhagavan Buddha was alive, one day he was surrounded by his disciples and two people came. One was extraordinarily rich, another person was very, very poor. Both of them were suffering from terrible incapacity of being able to eat. Both are suffering from terrible hunger. Then the disciples of Buddha questioned him because remember Buddha, though he did not talk much about God, he talked about Brahman, the infinity, the indescribable, the unoriginated, the eternal. Don't forget that. But he was not talking about personal God because of certain social conditions prevalent at that time. But he continuously said, we are the result of our own karmas. And his famous saying is, the result of karmas follow a man like the footsteps of the oxen, like the wheels of a cart follow the footsteps of the oxen. Oxen means karma, these wheels means karmaphala. So everybody has to pay and he used to recollect, I had 500 births before I became an enlightened Buddha. So Buddha looked at these two people, one was rich, one was poor, but both of them were unable to eat. Then he said, in their past lives, this man who was a poor man, he was a very rich man in his past life and whenever indigent, helpless, poor people, men and women came to him begging of some help, this person simply closed his doors, never shared what he had with those people. As a result of that not giving, in this life, he became daridraha, he became completely daridraha. Just now we quoted, Now, this person who became rich, he was having money, he was not very rich, but he was having more than sufficient and whenever people used to come, he used, inevitably, invariably, he will give something to his capacity, within his capacity to those people, but he used to curse them, you are parasites, you are sponging upon hard working people like me, so with the curse on his lips, he used to give. As a result of giving, he became rich, but who wants to hear these kind of words? Can they really enjoy what was given to them? So, he was born as a rich man, as a result of giving, this is the karma phala, but because he created so much of unhappiness to everybody to whom he has given, so this person is born from the very birth, the terrible stomach problem, where he cannot digest even water, so money is there, but he cannot eat, one man cannot eat because he doesn't have, the other man cannot eat because his stomach is not okay, and this is what proves, that if a person doesn't share with what he has, then he is not a social person, he becomes a daridra, he becomes a papi, he suffers endlessly until discrimination, right knowledge dawns into him, so this is just a background for what we are doing, a sattvika person always does it, with extreme love, extreme joy, extreme sweetness, whatever he could do, even sometimes suffering if necessary himself, but he would do this, because that is what is a man's life, that is what a human being, deserving the name of a human being should do, and that too without expecting anything, and he does it with the greatest reverence, thou art the Lord, and I am only giving what you yourself have given me, it doesn't belong to me, it belongs to you, at the right place, at the right time, and with the greatest reverence, Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva, that was what Swami Vivekananda's sentence, Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva, worship, serve the Jiva, any human being, any being as looking upon him as Shiva, that is the explanation of the sattvika type of dana, now we come to the rajasika type of dana, what is it doing, verse 21st, but that type of dana, charity, which is given for the sake of recompense, or with the expectation of fruit, or in a grudging mood, is accounted as of the nature of rajas, so there are three characteristics of rajasika charity, what is it, first thing is, that is, now I am giving it to you, and it is a kind of investment, it is a kind of lending, it is not charity, when you are in a position to give, in any way, supposing there is a poor student, and I will give you this money, and you may not be able to give me money, but when you become a great officer, I expect you to remember this, and I expect you to grant me license for building unhealthy constructions, etc., expecting a definite, may not be now, but in future, may not be in this life, but in the next life, etc., or he may not expect from these persons, but he has a definite, I want to go to heaven, I want to enjoy next birth, I want to obtain these things, because they are my unfulfilled desires in this life, again, phalam udhisya, expecting some fulfillment of some desire, phalam means a fruit, a result, and then, how does he give? Parikrishnam, his mindset, is most unwilling, tremendously reluctantly, not with full heart, not with full love, because he is expecting, and what happens when we expect? Maybe this fellow may turn out to be a turncoat, and he may not give me back, he may be turning out an ungrateful wretch, he will never remember me, and there is a great justification also for that. But if these three types of attitudes, first of all, expecting a result, return, secondly, or if not from this person, expecting some result, even when a person goes to a temple and offers, says, please save me from this trouble, please make me win this court case, or let my daughter get married, or let my son get a visa to go to America, or Canada, or UK, or Australia, etc., some tremendous, terrible desire is there, and that too, whatever he gives, he doesn't give happily, he gives, maybe I should not be that foolish, after all God has everything, where is the need for him? If I can give little also, he can gather everything, after all he is the Lord of the whole universe, everything belongs to him, he is not in need, but just to curry favour with him, I have brought something. So there is a beautiful incident, I am remembering, that once upon a time, Swami Adbhutanandaji, the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, was living in Varanasi, towards the end of his life, he settled down here and he passed away here, and one day, a devotee whom he knows, came to visit him from Calcutta, and then the devotee brought certain things to offer to Mother Annapurna, the presiding deity of Kashi, Varanasi, and he requested, Maharaj, please come, we will go together, offer these things to Mother Annapurna, and they started. On the way, Swami Adbhutanandaji got a terrible doubt, what is this fellow has brought, I know his nature, so he asked, what did you bring? So this fellow said, I brought many things, but one of them is a sari, let me see the sari, and that sari is one, it will not cover, or it will cover, only a 5 year old female child, not a grown up woman, the whole legs will be exposed, if this lady really has to put on this kind of sari, people specially manufacture this kind of things, and some towels to be given to priests, which will be like fishing nets, that means the threads will be 2 inches apart each, just for the sake of a priest has to be donated these things, they buy these things specially, but it is not meritorious at all, if you want to give, you give, so lot of Maharaj asked this man, so would you donate this kind of thing, buy this kind of thing, and ask your mother to put on, she will never consent, you will also not do, and how dare you bring it to the mother of the whole universe, either on that occasion or some other occasion, again same situation was there, and suddenly he said, what have you brought for the mother, and I brought some fruits, show me, and the fruits were half rotten, and the lowest quality, and then Ratu Maharaj cheated him, if you don't have money, with the money you decided to spend, you buy just one fruit, one banana, or one orange, one apple, whatever it is, the best that is available in the market, with that money, but you never give this kind of rotten things to the Divine Mother, you know why I am saying you, because whatever you give to the Divine Mother, you will get back a million fold, and you want this kind of mosquito net towels, somebody to give you, so what you yourself would not be happy to receive, never give, if you don't have money, then give the best that you can, Mother will be pleased with the devotion, and not with the value of what you are giving, so here we have seen three conditions, that is, expecting a return from that person in this life or in the next life, and then, if not from this person, with some kind of motivation, I want to attain to this fruit, usually people who go to the temples, that's what happens, and then, as if he is not happy to give, but he knows, what will people tell me if I don't give, if I go to the temple, and if I don't give, people will call me a miser, I don't want to be called a miser, so whatever little he can get away with, and such a person will do such a thing, so Pariklishtam, with that kind of rotten mentality, whatever is given, that is called Rajasadhanam Smritam, that is, that must be called a Rajasadhana, of course he is doing something, he might give, some people might give great things also, tremendous amount of money also, but it is not done for the sake of spiritual progress, it is done for the sake of enhancing one's own worldly goods, now we will enter very briefly into Shankaracharya's clarification that kind of gifts which expecting reciprocation what is the reciprocation? this person in time, he will also render me service in return with this clear purpose in view or with a desire for the fruit, result and which is what to me will accrue some unseen reward of this gift anything afterlife in heavenly world this is all unseen in fact, we cannot see a billy second later what is going to happen at all, so and then this is kind of the mental attitude I will help this person and I know this person may not be able to give me, but if he can give that is ok but I have got some other purpose intent in mind either in this life or next life or in the other world in this world or the higher world, I want to go and enjoy the result so this is called expecting a definite result and then even that kind of giving also can you give ok scriptures tell us if you give, the divine lord will give you a million fold and if you give with a pure heart, but pure means not for spiritual progress but with complete faith he is going to give me what I have given he is going to return me a million fold, I want to go to heaven so let me go to heaven but even though he wants the result, what type of mentality he has got Keda means grudgingly great reluctance with great unhappiness and thinking how little I can get by, more than that I don't need to give this kind of charity, giving gifts etc, it is called Rajasam Smritam remember, even this sometimes these people even though they have this kind of different kinds of purposes in mind some of them do a marvellous thing we come across many incidents here is a person, he wants his name and fame and he wants to be known to everybody the greatest scriptural evidence is Katopanishad the father of Naciketa he wanted to go to heaven but he was giving only what is called most useless types of cows to all the people to whom he should have given the best ones not that he did not have he was keeping the best cows and giving only those who graphic description that they have eaten the last straw of grass they have drunk the last drop of water that means they are going to die and they have given the last drop of milk, after that there is what is the use of giving this kind of useless things it will bring papa because whosoever takes them it is only a burden for them they don't get any profit out of it, so this person what does he do he should give, but there are people, they want to be known and for that purpose they will do everything they arrange first class feast thousands of poor people are fed, they arrange a big bhandara in some of our monasteries they give may be 1 lakh, 2 lakhs of rupees not only all the monks should be fed, but you invite all the poor people nearby also give them, give them money give them cloths, give them some materials, etc. there are people and different degrees of dana is there, but these people they have got something in return always expectation is there that's why this is not as good as satvika charity, but much better than tamasa charity, so this person he feels others obligated whenever he gives something, look he may not say in so many words never forget or newspaper blessing, a big cheque I have given so many photographs should come next day in the newspaper, etc. with the expectation that he will get something in return it is also giving, but there is an expectation of receiving something in return so what does it become? a business arrangement, an investment but do not have any mistake that if somebody gives, karmapala will come back he will get it but what type of mentality whenever we give something, we should not feel I am losing something, give joyfully and even if you expect also be joyous, the divine lord has implemented the law of karma and I am giving and this is a charitable action every action bears the fruits and I am sure to get by the grace of the lord what I am desiring either in this life or in the next life some people give reluctantly because they don't want to be called miserly persons so this kind of money one swami calls the sticky money because it doesn't leave the person's hand easily as if he put some glue and glued this money it takes a lot of effort to wrench that money from the hand and give it so when there is pain in giving it is very clear that the giving is born of vajoguna but then we should understand this verse in its proper light, everybody is not like that all people endowed with rajoguna are not like that, there is a person who is endowed with some amount of rajoguna, more amount of rajoguna and most amount of rajoguna, there are people gladly they give but with the expectation of some fruit and they are very happy also and we have to appreciate them because karmapala is inevitable, now coming back, the worst the lowest, the third type of dhanam is called tamasika dhanam in the verse 22nd and the type of gift that is made without respecting the recipient and or with disdain at an improper place and time and to an unworthy person is declared to be of the nature of tamas, so five characteristics are graphically described here which is called tamasika way of charity so what is this, first of all a desha desha, not a day neat and clean and pure and holy place some place where people would not like to stay at all, so I am giving a beautiful just now I recollected a beautiful example, holy mother used to be at Jairambati and there was a Muslim who used to be a dacoit, his name was Amja and holy mother loved him, you know why because you may say you just hear the name dacoit they must be the most sinful people in the world, no out of necessity the British government has driven and killed millions of Hindus they have created artificial famines and those people wanted to become rich, so in Bengal, parts of Bengal these Muslims have specialized in growing what is called indigo a kind of blue color yielding plant and they used to eke out their living and these people English people they started importing it from UK to get profit and as a result there was no demand for these people's production and as a result many Muslims in India are very poor people even today and that is one of the reasons they became converted into Islam so at least Hindus did not respect them now Hindus are paying heavily for this kind of karma phala for mistreating people in such horrible way in the name of India, anyway I will not go into that descriptions but we have to understand if today India is suffering from so much of injustice it is well deserved and Hindus deserve it and deserve it much more so these Muslims they were thrown out of their jobs, excepting poor huts, they didn't have anything and the only way they could somehow survive and many of them died also is by robbing on the way, so they made gangs and they robbed the pilgrims sometimes killed also and Amjan was one of them but holy mother was an embodiment of Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, many people objected to Amjan's entry into Jairambati they knew about him, they were frightened of him but then by holy mother's grace he became a devotee of holy mother though he had to commit robberies for livelihood, remember that always, simply saying he was a highway robber will not do, why? society had made them like that and in this case British government was the society many Hindus were also part of that society who made these poor people and women suffer, which fact Swami Vivekananda had rediscovered the degeneration of India had come because of the maltreatment of upper class, upper caste Hindus towards the lower caste people anyway sometimes when this person he would be caught and he would be put in jail and when he is released he will come invariably to see holy mother and he will bring always a gift, either a pumpkin or nut vegetables which they grew in front of their homes, which are nothing but dilapidated huts so once the person came and he was what is called completely his health was ruined he appeared to be very sick and then holy mother recognised my son Amjan you have come, come my son and because it was noon time and he was asked to sit unfortunately in the Brahmin families they can't be invited within the, into the houses, so he was said he was made to sit on the veranda and one of the relatives of holy mother was throwing food from a distance, holy mother observed it, he was suffering from rheumatism at that time, it was very painful for her to walk so she went there and said is this the way to serve a person can a person be really happy if you serve and then sat nearby and very lovingly like a mother serving her own son sat nearby, though he did not, she did not touch him, but very lovingly which he could understand fed him, so that his stomach had become full gave him something and said my son, come again when you can come, and then she scolded this lady, never again do that, because if you do that you might be in that position next birth, she might not have said that but definitely that is what Bhagavan Krishna is telling us so a desha, a place which is clean, where people feel this is a nice place and a kala kala means time what is time, here is a beggar he is dying of starvation and you come next day and try to give him food when he is half dead, that will not do when the person is hungry supply him food, whatever is there when the person is thirsty give him something if the person is having cold no clothing then cloth him, I remember another story, Nagamahasaya was an excellent homeopathic doctor, and one day he went and somebody because the sick person was cured they gave him a costly shawl and it was really costly in those days, and then he was coming on the way he saw a poor patient of his not only he treated that patient he did not take money because he knows that this poor person doesn't have, and then that was winter season, he took out that shawl, covered and said my son or daughter, I don't know male or female you be comfortable, I will treat you, don't worry I will see that you regain back your health this is what is called spirituality, whereas this Tamasika person, the place is impure, dirty undesirable, the time either the person doesn't require the help or it is long past or a food has become stale and then he goes and gives, here is something many people do like that those who read the biography of Saint Francis of Assisi many householders they used to ridicule him and stale bread they used to give, and he used to receive it as very prasada of the Bhagawan, go outside, say the grace and he would be completely satisfied bless all the people even though they have given with parikrishnam and with a curse and the most unworthy food, so first fulfillment, a person must do charity in a right place at the right time, a Tamasika person does the just opposite, not only that, at least does he give to deserving people so Tamasika dhanam yath dhanam, apatra apatra means undeserving people recently I read one great celebrity donated to her would-be husband a very costly foreign car in India and the whole newspapers were filled with the praise of her, the would-be husband also is a celebrity, what is the use of one rich person donating to the other rich person, parents giving costly gifts millionaire parents, billionaire parents giving costly gifts to their children, that is called gift, that is pure sheer waste of money, so apatra bhyascha, earlier we have seen that those who deserve either they are brahmanas, pundits scholars who are suffering from poverty or it could be a beggar, anybody who is in need of anything physically or mentally or locally, this person, so apatra bhyascha diyate, so a patra, a fit recipient, then only the gift will be really fruitful, but when a person, he gives to people to whom, he gives to drunkards he gives to thieves, he gives to nightclubs, he gives to people who do not deserve at all and then how does, even when he gives, how does he give, asatkritam insulting, either with a talk or even a look and the way just throwing out, like this relative is throwing out food into the plate of amjan, etc avagnyatam, insulting him, abusing him, calling that person by names, him or her, and this kind of dhanam, charity is called tamasubuddhavritam so will it give any result it will give some result because every karma fala but as I told the story of Bhagavan Buddha's explanation, if something is given like this, that person will be born appropriately and that person has to pay a million fold so at an improper place and time in an unholy place full of barbarians and impure things etc at an improper time that means what there are certain periods it is Hindus superstition such these kind of periods they are full of defects are there nothing good should be done and in those times these tamasic people, they do it so one has to be very discriminative about time, so there is a wrong time even to give charity, but if some person deserves it suppose there is a person suffering, it is midnight it is a right time, so there is no wrong time if provided it is given in the proper way but the help also should be in time, should not be given as out of time and then apatrebhyasya, Shankaracharya Shankaracharya, moorkhaha that is to say what is called ignorant people foolish people, taskaraha thieves, adhibya, etc etc, so thieves, drunkards highway robbers, politicians who are planning all the time to give the greatest trouble to the very people and all those things Shankara says there are people who cannot handle money, thieves etc, what is the problem that the money will be squandered by these people, I remember a joke, I hope you remember it, but anyway I will share, so one day in New York a gentleman was walking, suddenly a tramp approached him and said, I have not eaten for 3 days, I am starving, please give me 5 dollars, and the man looked like it, starving man so the gentleman took out 5 dollars and gave it him and said, my good man, do not squander it on gambling, and that fellow he touched another pocket and said never sir, I will use this money only for eating, for gambling I have separate money what type of fellows these fellows are, is giving to such type of undeserving people who will squander that is called tamasika jnana tamasika dhana, so what I do it will come back to me and therefore I have to be very discriminative only deserving people at the right place, right time and with great respect etc so that will be good and then, you know it is our experience, if we don't give, a bad person will go on abusing us, our 14 generations and if we give also he will abuse our 28 generations, this fellow you fellow, you are capable of giving and yet your heart is very miserly you did not give, why did you give such a small amount, you could have given, so whatever we do these bad people, wicked people evil people, they go on quarrelling with us, so there is a beautiful story I want to share it with you, there were two persons, one was a believer, one was a non believer and they belonged to the same village, one day they had to cross a forest and go to some distant place so they joined forces for each other's company and safety and they were walking and there was lot of bushes thorny bushes and shrubs, overgrown plants etc and then suddenly they noticed there was one small dilapidated Kali temple was there and then the non believer he saw it and then spat out all these things should never be cared for and walked off but the believer he said, here is mother's temple, I won't approach near so I will just bow down from here, so he folded his hands from the path itself and slightly tilted his head and bowed down and then the divine mother she stretched her hand and given this fellow a very strong slap and the believer was shocked, he said mother, explain this to me that fellow spat at you and you didn't do anything to him, I at least bowed down to you and you slapped me where is the justice? and then mother said, my son what can I do? he doesn't believe I exist I cannot do anything to people who do not believe God exists, but since you believe, is that the way to bow down to your own mother you should have come here and you should have prostrated Shashtanga Pranams, then only I would have looked at you kindly, but you did not do it properly what is the fun here? the fun is, those people who believe, they get this kind of things, anyway this is just a story but the fact is, each one of us get the result of our own karma fellow, you want to give give, don't want to give at least don't give, at least it will not fetch you too much of papa, but at the wrong time, at the wrong place, to the wrong person insulting him and calling him by names, abusing him or her if you give, then the next life will be terrible for us, karma fellow so, we should never give to bad people similarly one should not give to a thief or a drunkard or a gambler or anyone else who will not use the gift properly and I think I have narrated this story of M's son, one of M's son, he became a drunkard and I don't remember when I told this story but even if you have heard it bear it with patience so one day the attendant of M saw a man entering into the house he looked very haggard and starving and the man said, give me some money, some few rupees I am starving, I want to eat food and only after a few minutes, the attendant recognized it was M's own son and then he knew the story, so he felt like giving, after all he was M's son and M is respected so highly so immediately he wanted to give then he remembered, I am in the house of M, I should never do anything without his permission so he ran to M and then asked his permission and M said yes, go and give him and then the attendant turned to give him and suddenly M recalled him and said, you tell him, this is not a gift, this is a loan as soon as possible he should return and the man came and gave the money, the man thanked him and went away but the thought was troubling this attendee that why did M, he was so hard hearted even towards his own son, maybe he is a drunkard, it doesn't matter some people are like that, helpless and then M said everything in this house belongs not to M but belongs to God Sri Ram Krishna, I cannot give to this kind of drunkards he will go, perhaps he will drink he might eat a little or he might not, but he will definitely squander this money and I should never do that because it is Sri Ram Krishna's money, it should be used in the proper way, so right time right place with sweet words this is what Shankaracharya is telling with sweet words that is this person will not utter sweet words, he will not wash the feet of that person he will not offer worship and respectful seat that dhanam, gift which is given with disdain, with insults to the recipient it is declared to be dhamasic type of dhanam that is to say these are all the three types of charities with three different types of gunas or attitudes sattvika attitude, rajasika attitude and dhamasika attitude, why are these told to us, the purpose is we should try to avoid completely dhamasika type of dhanam because when we once know what is dhamasika dhanam then there is a good chance we can become more discriminated and then do it secondly, rajasika dhanam also definitely it will give much better result but sattvika dhanam gives the highest result it will give us infinite and eternal happiness by the realization of God, it will free us from all samsara, it is to make us aware, this is dhamasika charity, this is rajasika charity, so better you not do it, but one thing that even dhamasika dhanam, even though it is done in this way, is much better than not giving at all but the purpose is it should be done in the proper way that guidance has come to us, now I will, oh it is time, so I will share a beautiful incident that actually happened which I heard about in my next class Om Vasudeva Vasudham Devam Kamsachanuram Ardhanam Devaki Paramanandham Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum May Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda bless us all with bhakti Ramakrishna