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What is the reason behind 'anna dãna' (offering food to others) being considered the greatest of all charities?

Sri Sri Swamiji:

While even the new motor vehicle does not stay intact for long the Lord has created this human body with liver, heart, kidneys, lungs, etc. that work without fail for a long period of time. Moreover, the human body is a big wonder. Does not the creator of such a wonderful body also have the capability to make it function without food? Why then has he given hunger and the need for food to appease it? It is only to see if the mind of the man feels sympathy when someone suffers from want of the basic need - food. If one does not sympathize with the hungry the human birth becomes meaningless. It is for this reason that offering food ('anna dãna') is considered greatest of all charities.

How does the birth of a low creature come about for some even after having taken human birth?"

Sri Sri Swamiji:

Death of a man relates only to the death of the body and not death of the mind. When a man becomes mentally unstable he suffers from unwanted sorrowful thoughts. He is unable to stop it. If he were to take human form in his subsequent birth he would be born with the same mind. He would undergo the same suffering. But if for sometime he is given the birth of some creature whose intelligence is very low (say, a worm) his mind attains rest. The Lord feels that if this man passed through many such births and then attained to human birth he would have a healthy mind and so blesses him in this manner.

Which is the highest compassion of the Lord?

Sri Sri Swamiji:

When the purpose behind taking up a work fails we feel exhausted and we give up the desire to try it again.
 
Does not the Lord create, sustain and destroy this world and also perform innumerable Lila for all of us to attain Liberation? In every creation there is none who desires Liberation; yet he does not get tired of His work of creation, sustenance and destruction and continues to do it. This certainly is the highest of all His compassions.

Sankara says that the Gita offered by Krishna speaks Advaita philosophy while Ramanuja says it is Visishtadwaita and Madhwãchãrya calls it Dwaita!

Sri Sri Swamiji:

Why do you try to know the opinion of others regarding the words of the Gita of Krishna? Know what Krishna means. The Lord says, "Keep chanting my Divine Name (Nãmasankirtan) and I will take care of the rest."

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