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"The Glory of offering Charity for Krishna seva"

NITYA SEVA COLLECTORS


Notes for speaking to inspire the people
For donating to Krishna’s service

Please refer to the following references, cut and paste and prepare your own notes that could be
spoken to people :

SB 10.22.31-35 verses and purports


SB 6.10.1-12 verses and purports
BG 12.10, BG 11.55
SB 7.9.11 - we stand to gain, not the Lord, when we serve Him

Pastimes :

Krishna and Fruit vendor lady - one who gives to Krishna, always gains
Krishna and Sudama - even if one gives meagre amount with love, he gains a
lot back, even without asking from Krishna.

Krishna Book – Chapter 72 – Deliverance of Jarasandha

King Jaräsandha was a very dutiful householder, and he had great respect for the brähmaëas. He was a
great fighter, a kñatriya king, but he was never neglectful of the Vedic injunctions. According to the Vedic
injunctions, the brähmaëas are considered to be the spiritual masters of all other castes. Lord Kåñëa,
Arjuna and Bhémasena were actually kñatriyas, but they dressed themselves as brähmaëas, and at the
time when King Jaräsandha was to give charity to the brähmaëas and receive them as guests, they
approached him.
Lord Kåñëa, in the dress of a brähmaëa, said to the King, “We wish all glories to Your Majesty. We three
guests at your royal palace have come from a great distance to ask you for charity, and we hope that you
will kindly bestow upon us whatever we ask from you. We know about your good qualities. A person who
is tolerant is always prepared to tolerate everything, even though distressful. Just as a criminal can
perform the most abominable acts, a greatly charitable person like you can give anything and everything
for which he is asked. For a great personality like you, there is no distinction between relatives and
outsiders. A famous man lives forever, even after his death; therefore, any person who is completely fit
and able to execute acts which will perpetuate his good name and fame and yet does not do so becomes
abominable in the eyes of great persons. Such a person cannot be condemned enough, and his refusal to
give charity is lamentable throughout his whole life. Your Majesty must have heard the glorious names of
charitable personalities such as Hariçcandra, Rantideva and Mudgala, who used to live only on grains
picked up from the paddy field, and the great Mahäräja Çibi, who saved the life of a pigeon by supplying
flesh from his own body. These great personalities have attained immortal fame simply by sacrificing the
temporary and perishable body.” Lord Kåñëa, in the garb of a brähmaëa, thus convinced Jaräsandha that
fame is imperishable but the body is perishable. If one can attain imperishable name and fame by
sacrificing his perishable body, he becomes a very respectable figure in the history of human civilization.
While Lord Kåñëa was speaking in the garb of a brähmaëa along with Arjuna and Bhéma, Jaräsandha
marked that the three of them did not appear to be actual brähmaëas. There were signs on their bodies
by which Jaräsandha could understand that they were kñatriyas. Their shoulders were marked with
impressions due to carrying bows, they had beautiful bodily structure, and their voices were grave and
commanding. Thus he definitely concluded that they were not brähmaëas but kñatriyas. He also thought
that he had seen them somewhere before. But although these three persons were kñatriyas, they had
come to his door begging alms like brähmaëas. Therefore he decided that he would fulfill their desires in
spite of their being kñatriyas, because they had already diminished their position by appearing before him
as beggars. “Under the circumstances,” he thought, “I am prepared to give them anything. Even if they
ask for my body, I shall not hesitate to offer it to them.” In this regard, he began to think of Bali Mahäräja.
Lord Viñëu in the dress of a brähmaëa appeared as a beggar before Bali and snatched away all of his
opulence and his kingdom. He did this for the benefit of Indra, who, having been defeated by Bali
Mahäräja, was bereft of his kingdom. Although Bali Mahäräja was cheated, his reputation as a great
devotee able to give anything and everything in charity is still glorified throughout the three worlds. Bali
Mahäräja could guess that the brähmaëa was Lord Viñëu Himself and had come to him just to take away
his opulent kingdom on behalf of Indra. Bali’s spiritual master and family priest, Çukräcärya, repeatedly
warned him about this, yet Bali did not hesitate to give in charity whatever the brähmaëa wanted, and at
last he gave up everything to that brähmaëa. “It is my strong determination,” thought Jaräsandha, “that if
I can achieve immortal reputation by sacrificing this perishable body, I must act for that purpose; the life
of a kñatriya who does not live for the benefit of the brähmaëas is certainly condemned.”
Actually King Jaräsandha was very liberal in giving charity to brähmaëas, and thus he informed Lord
Kåñëa, Bhéma and Arjuna: “My dear brähmaëas, you may ask from me whatever you like. If you so
desire, you may take my head also. I am prepared to give it.”

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