MUCH RALK AND LITTLE VALUE

MUCH TALK AND LITTLE VALUE

The way to improve the lot of the deprived and dispossessed is to respect them, to begin with, and to then follow it up with welfare programmes for their survival, sustenance, growth and flourishing. But they must, in being provided service thus, never be humiliated as exhibits who have come up by your charity, before those who are your potential donors, in much publicised programmes as is the wont these days.

There is no need to quote the scriptures while doing this work but there is need to live the principles enshrined therein. Communication need not degenerate to advertising. Good work builds up its own goodwill and attracts the right people for its furtherance. God never advertises but silently works ever without hope of return, for self-fulfilled He ever abides. The work itself will be its own return, its self-fulfilment.

Character and sincerity is the key, and purity of purpose the driving force. Courage of conviction will deter one from stooping to generate funds as the provisions will flow in if one is steadfast in one's mission. Chastity of the leaders is the moving force and high idealism the attribute that will check the infiltration of lowly means to achieve ends. Above all, the served ones must be venerated as Gods and Goddesses in truth and not merely in high-flown oft-quoted verbal terms. Worship who you wish to raise from the material mire of both impoverishment and hyperaffluence.

Written by Sugata Bose