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Selflessness is a
virtue of humanity and selfishness is that of inhumanity. This can be
further explained by drawing the difference between a patriot and a
terrorism. A patriot sacrifices his life for the sake of his country. He
gives up all he has for the sake of others. On the other hand the
terrorist takes the lives of others for the sake of a cause.
Selflessness in about giving and selfishness is about taking.
Generosity is an offshoot of selflessness. It is the virtue of bringing
a smile onto other peoples faces. According to what the Spiritual
Leaders profess, The more you give, the more you get. What does this
mean? The connotation or meaning of this statement is simple; we can
only fill what is always empty. How can we fill more water into a glass
full of it. Obviously we have to fist empty it to fill it up again.
Similarly in life we have to give out more in order to fill our coffers.
And this is something we need to teach our children.
One way in which we can effectively teach our children the virtue of
generosity is be making it a point to at visit home for underprivileged
children and donating things. One effective practice could be to donate
your kids old clothes and toys every year on his birthday. What you
could do is sit down with your child and together sort out what can be
given away, seeing that it is not the absolutely torn and tattered
objects, but those that can still be used by the underprivileged
children. Make your child distribute these himself. He will surely feel
a sense of achievement and fulfillment having made these children happy.
After doing that as a birthday treat take him shopping to purchase new
clothes and toys.
In this way the child learns to give and even understands that in some
form or the other there is a replacement for all that he give out from
the smiles and gratefulness from the receivers to the gifts he receives
in return. To teach him generosity it is vital to reimburse it with a
sense of fulfillment not only in terms of material gains, but more so
emotional. Category
authored by Karishma Bajaj. Copyright
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