Charity - the weakness.

(This i had written in reply to my friend's proposal for starting Charitable work)

I dont believe in helping others, cooperation is a different thing
altogether. Help gives an instant relief but it brings two big evils
with it, first the expectation of getting more and second the
dependence. Sometimes earlier I used to think of equal society and the
commodity distribution, but later I found the biggest target of the
nation should be to make people optimistic and give them hope. People
may enjoy immense wealth, some may live in poverty but what makes one
happy is the hope that tomorrow will be better. More to that is
self-dependency, and believe in self that he can do better tomorrow.

I have seen many charity organisations help. I dont say they are doing
wrong but the output they are getting is not the best possible output.
They try their best to get best of what they can, i really appreciate
that, but wouldnot that be better had they been very successful in
their life materially. Dont call me selfish here, you can call me
selfish after reading next few paras if you really feel the same.

India is getting better and better day by day. What is making it better?
Is it the help that charity organisations are giving? is it the aid that
foreign govts are providing? is it the loans that friendly countries are
giving? or is it the subsidy that Indian govt is giving to support the
poor? None of these. India is transforming just because of the success
of engineers of premiere institutes like IITs, leadership by the
managers of IIMs, the competitive business environment grown by the
positive economic policies and because of the success stories of huge
indian business houses like TATA, BIRLA, Relience, Bharti, Infosys,
Wipro etc. This has created "Brand India" in the World. By which
foreigners believe in India and the Indians, and invest in India. And
most importantly every child sees people growing around him, getting
glamorous life style, and tries to get that. In that course he reads
well, tries hard to reach there and finally ends up becoming another
legend of the country. The best one man can do in his life is to do
gain as much he can, name, fame, ecstacy etc etc. This makes the people
more optimistic. And optimism makes one happy.

Protectionism and help degrades the social structure. I have an example
from Switzerland. Swiss govt subsidises agro products. That is the only
protected part of Swiss economy and now it has become only the black
spot of that economy. Every part other than that is going very fine but
farmers are slowing loosing and crying for more subsidies.
India has subsidised Kerosene adn LPG gas heavily and is wasting lot of
money on that. Every yr's petro and food subsidy together is enough to
build a nuclear power station and think of us getting electricity
getting as low as 50p per unit, how competitive then our industry would
be? How much we could save by this? The savings would then be invested
and economy will grow in other sectors too. The huge money that goes
foreign to buy petro products could then be built for irrigation
project in the country to support farmers. But nothing of this will
happen as we believe in help, the instant help and we tend to ignore
economics behind it.
Consider a situation, TATAs and BIRLAs helping poor by running a charity
organisation. The more they focus there they will ahve less time for
business is one part. Next part the money others are using for their
marketing products is being wasted by these companies on charity. They
will loose to their competitors and finally fall. When they fall they
will not remain so finally the charity house will close altogether.

Its a global average that for any work govt wastes 3 times more
resources than what private players could have done the same work. How
come this happens? This is due to the corruption that comes with
protectionism. Any charity organisation is run by the people and any
person can get corrupt at anytiime. In such activities where he is not
in a competition of loosing to his competitors, he may get into those
activities more easily than anyone. Further he has a cover of being
social worker which is a good mask for them.

In the Human Values book published by Vivekananda Nidhi, there is a good
sentence for the person to lead.

"Everything exist, because I exist."

Feel this sentence and give a deep thought. You may feel this sentence
as a materialistic view but Value specialists see it otherwise.
Everthing for you is there only when you are there. So you are the core
of it.

Think this .....

"I exist, because everything exist."

You may feel this as an spiritual thought and leading. Giving more
importance to the society. But this is not. This is undermining self
and this shows low confidence in self and dependency on others.

Charity begins at self. When we are enriched with more knowledge, power
and wealth then it will spread to the environment. This is what the
first sentence tells us. We must grow if we really want others to grow.
This is also called leading by example, and leading by example is far
better than leading by teachings and help.

Friends, I strongly believe that noone can win a war by killing the
enemies when the enemies are continuously produced. The best way is to
attack the production base and by helping poor we are showing a human
sympathy but we are showing other people that if they come to that
condition will get our help. This will make him carefree and one day
that man will come and cry for help. People will die and its the rule
of law. We cant stop that. We can give food to a hungry now, but what
about tomorrow. If someother peoson feeds him tomorrow then what about
the next day. He will get hungry everyday.

Now, coming to our main topic of thanking god and saying "oh god" and
all. It is just to show that we are still humans and have the feel in
self that this should not happen, also showing that I cant do anything.
I am busy doing something and hope that will help the world, god please
show them the path to live their life. This is totally logical and
valuatic.

"Charity is an excuse of the people who doesnot dare to think something
big in life. Thinking small is not a weakness, its a social crime. It's
simply passing the present day hardship to the coming generation."