QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2022

Q: Guruji, what is the importance of charity? What is the highest form of charity?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Charity brings purity of mind and purity of heart. Charity means sharing. But charity is also not considered the most noble act because you always do charity to someone who is not your own. You never say, ‘I did charity to my daughter or my son’. So the first step is compassion. Second step is charity, giving what you have to others who need it and then the third step is simply a sense of belongingness where you share because you can’t but share. You don’t think that you are doing charity and yet you do charity. That is true charity. Real service is doing service without asserting that I did service. Suppose you find a girl has fallen down, you go and you lift her and put a band-aid on her and take care of her. After that you don’t say, ’Oh! I did a great service to the girl!’ You did it because as human beings you can’t but help. You can’t just walk away when someone is hurt. It’s impossible. So service should be like our nature.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar