what can be a right way to donate or do charity

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What is charity or donation?

It’s a willingness of a person to help others with the surplus or sufficient treasure he has. It could be in many forms apart from monetary donations. Volunteering is one good example it’s a way to donate yourself ,your sweat, your efforts.

Ways to help:

-Select a child – donate for his education

-select a family – help them grow by being an advisor /educator

-open up opportunities for the weak class (cloth stitching etc.)

-educating someone in your free time. This is the best donation one can do

-volunteer in food donation or activity where educated person is required like teaching.

-open or create a platform which can be easily consumed by the weak class to get work or help.

Many a times we  think of donating and somehow do not trust an NGO or an ashram. Many a time its true as well that behind the curtains of NGO there is a black to white money conversion market. I personally was part of an NGO whose owner died in a car accident due to drug abuse case. This we did not know until the whole scandal was published in news paper.

I once went to the ashram and by looking at it, it seemed like it was more than taken care of and still people poured in to donate. My point here is that again there is a imbalance between the ashram with less popularity and the ones residing in the heart of the city with greater popularity and there too its like Jain ashram , Christian ashram and so on. Where people from one sect will support their preferred ashrams.

Then question is how do you figure out the best way to donate?

The answer is you will have to be patience and invest some time in finding who are really the needy ones and I would suggest one must survey his own locality.

One way is to give money and get away with the situation. Nowadays begging is like a small business. The money they get is not used for the right purpose. The agents in between will get their commission and the beggar will remain beggar for a lifetime. See begging should not become a habit instead they must be empowered with some sort of job or work which will help them as a consistent source of income and slowly they can improve their lives. We must not encourage these type of beggars who want to have this easy money. Someone who is ill , someone who is disabled must get the help from society but young men and women who are fit n fine must not continue such work. I have seen beggars asking for milk packets , pen and stationaries which they return to the shopkeepers to get back the money with some commission to the shop owner.  At least in a city if one is willing then he/she can get any simple job like housekeeping or household jobs. And I think those who are really willing to out in effort and feel like they should earn their bread with respect do not find it difficult to get out of such adverse conditions.

Basically your help should be in such a way that it should empower the underprivileged and not get them in a comfort zone. many places which serve free food have become a hub for lazy and ill motivated people. give them food for some work instead. anything for free is undervalued.

Its more of a nurture thing rather than one time investment. Like how you grow or convert a small sapling into a tree. It’s a time taking activity but the results are sweet and long lasting. Once the tree is mature it will bear fruits year on year. Metaphorically I want to explain this case you can consider supporting a family in terms of money ,guidance or job support. In turn when this family becomes self sufficient they will definitely help others and so on. 

Few examples: donation in temple is required for its maintenance but popular temples need to give back the surplus amount they are gathering. People as well should understand that God is created by us and a healthy maintenance will not require such huge donations.

Hygienic food/water is an important and basic requirement — this primarily must be met before covering any other aspects.

Hail human beings !!

When do we start thinking– > when we have a problem right !! Till that point we ignore all our vibes, sixth sense and intuitions. And unfortunately when we are sad dismissed then we start to think else we don’t have a time in happiness to think about anything or any aspect of life , nature or society.

When you are diseased, or bankrupt or lose your job. You ponder on to that situation , now even that is temporarily for that specific situation. Whereas there is no one factor that leads you to dismissal but there are lot of factors that combine to create something called trouble-situation or problem. Also a problems magnitude can vary from person to person for someone getting a mobile lost is like someone stole their organ but for some they  just take it as misfortune.

Well lot of damages can be recovered by money and some damage needs emotional attention. Now unfortunately you can’t have both aspects in your life. It’s not like you can’t you have not designed  life that  way. With ambitions, hunger and greed  for more; that emotional quotient just gets lost somewhere  in time.

That is why a poor has a lot of emotional consent whereas the rich has only the money mind.

The first category of poor people are still in a safe game because they will not self-murder themselves. They have a will to live the next  day and face the problems. Whereas the  money  mind-set can make you miserable. There is no real connection for rich people even with their own family members. See again, I am not saying it’s not possible to have that balance but unfortunately it’s the nature of human or money that makes you like that. It’s the people you are surrounded with who will make it even more difficult to have that balance.

Anyways we are not here to talk on rich vs poor. We are here to think how this life was supposed to function and where should we have headed for.

We are endlessly expanding , there needs to be a stop to that coz excess of anything doesn’t do good for the growth. We say we are engineers and we don’t even know how to keep the equilibrium our own body and mind.

Greed has just devastated this planet

There  are thousands of odd research going  on and how many of them are towards making this mother earth a better  place. I believe none. Onto the  name of research it’s just black money conversion to white  money. In fact Our quality of food has degraded and our disease count  has  only increased. Not physical diseases but more on to the level of mental health with lifestyle tag. we are  just owning and owning. Most of the clothes we use nowadays are not even meant for human body. For that we need that active sense  like a dog who knows atleast what to eat what  not to eat. What we  are  eating  is just disaster Maida ( Flour) and maida and fried stuff.

So eventually we are earning and then later in life spending on our medical bills and health. Don’t you think this is a major conspiracy at government level itself rather I would say at the big industrialist level who are bribing the govt to pass policy  such as allowing processed foods, packaged food ,alcohol and toxic substances and banning naturally available marijuana. And  we  middle class people have a tendency to believe in everything that is approved by govt or which has an advertising  on TV. 90% of the  stuff being  sold  are not event meant for human consumption. Where are  raw vegetables and fruits in market/malls? there are just artificial flavoured juices and their nice photographs on the wrapper.

In this vicious cycle we are taking birth and ending  our lives just to eat shit and  die.  That’s still fine but reproducing  at  this  scale added with such huge life expectancy is not going to help in anyway. We also need to try limiting ourselves from expanding  our human print everywhere. Now next is people have already started booking real estate on planet Mars. I mean look at what  we have done to our own  planet and now you want to destroy that as well. Hail human beings !!