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Management of temple should spend donated wealth to help the poor


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Management of temple should spend donated wealth to help the poor

Lack of discrimination is the greatest sin in view of God.

 

 

The extent of the determination to sacrifice wealth for the sake of God is one important angle. Another important angle is the recognition of human form of God, who enjoys your sacrifice. You might have reached the climax of the first angle. In such case, you sacrifice your wealth to temples but not to human incarnation, which will be properly utilized by Him. The wealth sacrificed by you to the temples is not properly utilized by the people of management of the temple. They distribute the food among all the devotees, who visit the temple. Such sacrifice is totally waste. You must differentiate the poor devotees and help them by such donated wealth. You can help even an atheist, who is a poor person. If the atheist becomes free of the worries of the poverty, he will have peaceful mind to think about God and in course of time, he may become a great devotee of God. You are helping him by providing a chance to become the devotee of God.

 

Therefore, the management of temple should spend the devoted wealth to help the poor people and not to help the rich devotees, who are not in need. The service is being done to all the devotees irrespective of their need. This lack of discrimination is the greatest sin in view of God. Therefore, the donor himself should do such service by spending some time in such important effort. This will be far better than the blind donation to some agency, which itself is blind. You must help the poor people irrespective of their devotion because even an atheist has chance to become a devotee after becoming peaceful in mind.

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