Sage of Kanchi –

Pranams at the lotus feet of Sri Paramacharya !

Paramacharya talks about Paropakara/ practice of benevolence, whenever we get an opportunity we should be willing to perform charity, it will bring permanent happiness and eternal appreciation to the family, society will always remember those great souls even after their death, generous-minded people will always be in the hearts of the people for their contributions made to society, in this way they made other peoples life better.  There are various ways to assist people, digging well will quench the thirst of a large part of the community and even the animals, building shelter house will be beneficial for the people who conduct long journeys, building shrine and conduct worship would bring endless bliss and piousness, construction of garden and serve people with buttermilk during summer, the highest of the pious act is serving the meal to needy, sharing knowledge is considered as the supreme act of benevolence.   Whenever we get an opportunity to perform the charity we should do it immediately without any second thought, children should practice benevolence from the early years of childhood.  The art of ‘giving is a joy’, it will bring supreme bliss to the doer.  God has given us wealth to perform charity, he gave us money to wipe off tears of distressed people, not to feed our sense organs limitlessly, if we do so, he will take away all that wealth.  Everyone should keep one-tenth of their income for charity purposes, this habit should put into practice from childhood.  Then the child grows up into a responsible adult who will perform charities abundantly.  Charity is another form of righteous deed, piousness earned by performing these deeds will follow an individual even after his death, expenses in our life are endless, but whenever we get opportunity we should spend for charity as well, we should not postpone charity at any cost, later we may not get the opportunity, or we will not have to heart to do so.   Whenever we meet great souls who constantly served our society, we should take a vow to perform charity, in this way we can collectively take part in building a better society.   Therefore we should make the practice of performing charity according to our capacity.  In this way, we can attain welfare while living in this word and piousness which follows even after death.