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Empowering others

Listen! Having makes you naturally responsible for sharing. This is the natural law.

A person with eyes is responsible for giving the benefits of vision to a blind person. A person with wealth is responsible for guiding a poor man to wealth. A person with power is responsible for making powerless people become powerful. A person with high energy is responsible for inspiring people with less energy. A person with knowledge is responsible for making ignorant people knowledgeable.

You become responsible for sharing anything you own and making it grow. If you are powerful, you become responsible for making the powerless powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible for making the poor wealthy. I am not saying, 'Distribute your wealth!' No! If you pick up ten poor people and distribute all your wealth to them, we will have eleven poor people, that's all! I am asking you to take responsibility for educating them and making them rich.

The Vedic tradition beautifully says - 'Annam bahukurveeta!' Let us create food and share it! The Vedic civilization is a grain-based civilization. So sharing food has been our lifestyle. That is why no ritual, festival or celebration is complete in Hindu tradition, without sharing food.

When you own, you become responsible to raise everyone else also to the same state. Because I own 'responsibility,' I have the responsibility of making everyone else also own 'responsibility!'

In the true spirit of Vedic tradition, take responsibility to share everything you own to the greatest extent possible.

Make a list of things that you have, and how you will take responsibility to share them with others. For example, if you have wealth, how will you take responsibility to help others become wealthy? If you are successful, how will you guide others to become successful as well?