Satsang Bhakta Leela Amrut by Das Ganu Maharaj

"There are three types of feedings: mass feeding, regular feeding and
occasional feeding. Mass feeding is feeding people in thousands. You may do
this if you are very wealthy and your intentions good. When you mass-feed,
you need not differentiate between caste or between good and bad people; all
are worthy. Feeding in the name of the Lord also falls in this category.
However, you should not undertake some feeding if you have to borrow and get
into debt.
Regular feeding, on the other hand, calls for discrimination. Only way
farers, mendicants, the worthy poor among students who live by begging their
bread, and the hungry deserve to be fed regularly. "Then there is occasional
feeding - feeding on occasions like weddings, festivals and the completion
of the observance of religious vows. On such occasions you may invite your
good friends and relations and feed them. These are the three types of
feeding and the reasons behind them. The same holds good for the offering of
clothing as well.

"Try to help those in distress whenever your purse permits. When in power,
do not misuse it. Do not take a bribe while sitting in judgment on a case.
Whatever responsibility is given to you, carry it out well and with due
care. Do not dress overly and show off. Do not, without proper reason,
insult anyone. Know the bad and the wicked and deal carefully with them. If
you are blessed with sons, daughters, servants and maids, treat them all
affectionately but do not take pride in these blessings, for such pride is
the cause of the cycle of births and deaths. We must finish up with our past
store of karma so that nothing is left for us to carry forward. Blessings
like sons, daughters etc. are meant for this life only. Where, for instance,
are the friends and relatives we had in our past lives? They ceased to be
when the lives for which they were meant ceased to be. Desires, on the other
hand, bind us from birth to birth and bring about the next birth. Do not
therefore take false pride in your progeny, relations or friends. Only then
will you get everlasting bliss. We go to a hotel to take shelter there for a
short while. We do not get attached to such a temporary dwelling. The world
too is but a temporary abode for us.

(To be contd...)
Source http://www.saileelas.org/books/4chap.htm

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