Too much of head spoils the heart!!

I always had arugument on one subject with my husband,on whether we should give money to beggars or not. Occasionally, on a red light stop there come some children and poor men and women knocking your window for alms. I find myself unable to ignore someone with his hands opened before me. I just can't ignore it and end up giving them some money. My husband never likes it and says I am promoting beggars and all the evils associated with it. We usually end up arguing on this.

I know there will be many reading this who would agree with my husband.And I don't say he is wrong either. But I have another viewpoint on it. Firstly, if someone opens his hands before me I take it as my duty to give him something if I can afford to,and for God's grace I can certainly afford. Now his begging and his intentions and his deeds are his and with what intention he is begging is his own doing.He will be judged accordingly. As for me, my Karma says that someone with open hands should not go empty handed and that is my deed. His Karma is his and mine is mine.

Secondly, we cannot deny the pitiful conditions in which half the population in India lives. If they are begging it is not that they have wealth hidden and they are cheating us. When we buy Packed Chips (Uncle Chips or any other) that doesn't cost more than Rs.2 including packaging and retailing and pay Rs 15~20 for them ,then we do not think that the company is cheating us, or when we buy Rs 15 mineral water bottle for water, something that is our right, we don't do any analysis.But for giving Rs 2 or Rs 5 to a beggar we want to discuss entire financial statements of what that poor man is earning by begging. I don't think thats fair.

By this I am certainly not in favor of begging. NO. I think it to be most derogatory but what I want to say is.... not to use so much of head where a little heart is required and not to put a lot of heart where a little brain is required(think of it when you buy a pack of chips or coke next time. )Maybe your Rs.15 can serve 5 poor people with a cup of tea in a cold evening