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The Practice of Humanity
When you do social service, then you are able to say that you are serving people. Or you are able to say, "I am empathizing, I am sympathizing." However, the practice of humanity is inclusive of everyone. When I lose my watch, I know that if the person who finds it practices humanity, then it will be returned to me. And all these people who are engaged in service activities are actually doing a disservice. I told one man, "What is this you are doing? Why are you giving to these people? How can you give in this way?" The big [volunteer] who has set out to do 'service'! The 'volunteer' has come! For what reason have you set out to do 'service'? People's money is used inappropriately, and people too, give readily.
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Questioner: But that is indeed what is referred to as humanity these days.
Dadashri: [I told that man,] "You are ruining the human race; you are not even letting them live." So I scolded that man a lot. "What sort of a person are you? Who taught you such a thing? To collect money from people and those who appear poor to you, you call them over and give it to them. What is the thermometer' [assessment] for that? This person appears to be poor, so you decided to give to him, and this other person does not appear to be poor, so you did not give to this person? That person did not know how to speak confidently, he did not know how to speak in the right way, so you did not give to him, and you gave to the one who knew how to speak in the right way. The big assessor has come!" Then he said, "Show me another way." I told him, "This person is physically strong, so purchase a cart worth 100 or 150 rupees for him and give him 20 rupees at your expense and say, 'Here take this, go get some vegetables and start selling them. And pay me 5 rupees in rent for the cart every couple of days.""
