What are the benefits of charity / donation?
Questioner: Why do people give donations (daan)?
Dadashri: The truth is, one gives a donation because he wants something in return. He gives happiness in order to get happiness in return. He doesn’t donate for the purpose of liberation (moksha). If you give happiness to people, then you will get happiness in return. Whatever you give, you will get in return. So this is the law. We receive by giving to others. By taking away from others, we inevitably end up losing it.
Questioner: There is no relationship between the Self and donation, so then is it necessary to give donations or not?
Dadashri: What does donation mean? It means to give and then take in return. This world is in the form of echoes. So whatever you do, there will be an echo of that, along with its interest. So you give and take in return. You had given in the past life; you had done something such as spending money for a good cause, so you have gotten the result of that. Now, if you don’t do such a thing again, then everything will go to ruin. You may have harvested twenty tons of wheat from your farm, but if you do not keep aside fi ve for the purpose of replanting, then what would happen?
Questioner: Then nothing would grow.
Dadashri: That is how all this is. So you must give, then it will create an echo and return multifold. You had given in the past, that is why you have been able to immigrate to America. Otherwise, is it easy to immigrate to America? It is when so much merit karma has been bound that one gets to sit in a plane. There are so many people who have never even seen a plane!
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