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- Ratna-karandasrārakācāra, 117. Vasumandiśrāvukācāra, 233.
That is - The Ganadharas, endowed with four kinds of perceptions say that the charities in the form of giving 1. Food, 2. Medicine, 3. Monastic equipage and
1. Monastic residences are variously called as service-penance.
There are many adages that support the concept of charity. These are as follows: -
1. Satramapyamanukampyānām srjedanujighrkṣayā | Cikitsāśālavadduśyennejyāyai vāļikādyapi II
- Sāgāradharmāmrtu, 2.40 That is - Like the hospitals if the householder believers also get the places like charity houses, parks, ponds. etc.. for the benefit of the people at large, there is no harm.
2. Aivuddha-bālamūkandya-bahira-desantarīya-rogāṇam, Jahajoggam dāyavvam karuņādāṇanti bhaạiñīņa Upavāsa – vāhi - parisamakilesa - paripidayam muneūņa, Pattham sarirajoggam bhesajadānam pi dāyavvam Il
- l'asionandi Śrūvakācāra, 235 and 239.
That is - To give food, etc., 10 very old. children, deaf and dumb and the blind is charity of compassion. Therefore. proper medicine should be given for the sick, the fasting, the tired and the miserable.
3. Mittam bhuikte savibhajyāśritebhyo,
Mittam svapityamittam karmakrtvā!
Dadātyamitresvapi yācitah san,
Tamātvamavantani vijahatyanarthāh || - Mahābhūrara
That is the calamities do not touch the self-realised one who eats the little that is left after giving to those that depend on him, the one who rests a little after working a lot and the one who gives even to one's enemy when asked.
4. Gītā considers detachment as different from activity and nonactivity. It considers activity as a kingly quality or Rajogina, inactivity
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