“Q: How
can we best help the world?
S.B. By
living Right Life and practising charity: mental, verbal, bodily and pecuniary.
Mentally, we should wish well even to our so-called enemies. We should not
speak words likely to hurt others. We should, when possible, try to serve
others physically. Then at least ten per cent of our income should be devoted
to charity. This, again, should be divided into three parts. One part should go
to poor spiritual aspirants and institutions for spiritual life. Another part
should go to deserving cultural people and institutions. The third part should
go to poor people and institutions for helping them. If people practise charity
well, where can there be disorder in the world?”
– From “Long Pilgrimage”, J.G.
Bennett, on the life and teachings of the Shivapuri Baba.
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