Yesterday evening I saw many employees in my office reading the newspaper and cursing a particular politician/businessman about whom it was in the papers that this man indulging in illegal business of some kind donated the most expensive gift in centuries to a particularly well known temple. After donating the gift, this politician/businessman well known to be indulging an illegal business went on to say that he donated the wealth to God in return for wealth God has showered on him. This got me wondering whether the mere act of giving wealth away qualifies as a Good Deed??
(For obvious reasons I am not naming the businessman/politician or the business they do nor the temple where they donated their expensive gift)
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according to me it is not at all a good deed.
Mayur, Agreed!
Donation to a temple i.e. some sort of charity gets the money circulating to the right people (right humanitarian cause). But in this particular scenario, money is in form of a diamond studded gold crown, which might get locked up in a treasury cellar for ever.
The only positive side to this is that this money wouldn’t get circulated for a bad cause.
For a personal reason giving away ones wealth is giving away attachment to objects in life. An act of donation is a spiritual act no matter what the motive is. It is giving away worry or happiness. On a spiritual scale both grief and pleasure measure the same.
Now bhagawath geetha lord Krishna says – The right form of action is supreme. If the money was channelized in form of construction of hospitals or schools or some sort of a good industry that would generate more employment then that act of donation is the most supreme.
Time alone can decide if this act is a good deed or bad deed.
It is indeed a deed and is definitely better than not doing a donation.
Yes! Its indeed a Deed….Only a Deed …Not a Good One though in my eyes atleast!