So many people to give charity too. But there’s not enough money to give. Not for one middle-class person at least.
But what are we giving the money for? To help the other person? Or to feel good about ourselves? Perhaps both?
Neither is necessarily good or bad. Here’s a line from a spirituality column in a magazine:
Even the 'charity' given to the undeserving, the scriptures tell us, makes it tamasic and, therefore, harmful to the giver, to the recipient and society at large.
Wow pretty dire consequences it seems! Can we even begin to fathom who is deserving or not? Impossible.
That’s why it’s best to donate to the charity that the Guru has chosen.