Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 46-8 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ======================================================================= Wednesday, July 27, 2022. 20:45. Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 8. ========================================================================= Yat tu prattyupakārārthaṁ (17.21): If we give in charity because something will come out of it, because if we give something a double benefit will follow—that cannot be regarded as real charity, because we expect something from the good that we do. It cannot be called a really good deed. Phalam uddiśya vā punaḥ: Because we always concentrate on what follows from this little sacrifice that we have performed, it is not real sacrifice. Dīyate ca parikliṣṭaṁ: If we give charity with great difficulty, reluctantly, niggardly, throw it at the face of a man and say, “Go! Don't come again!” it is not charity. Dīyate ca parikliṣṭaṁ is when we give charit...