To be compassionate, be both caring and careful Gita 17.20

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Hare Krishna to be compassionate be both caring and careful suppose a doctor is treating a patient who is afflicted with a infectious disease which is also spread like an epidemic in the area now the doctor needs to be caring the doctor needs to want to cure the patient and to be deeply concerned about curing the patient at the same time the doctor also needs to be careful that if the doctor doesn’t wear the mask or take the proper immunization then while treating the patient the doctor might get infected or if the doctor is not careful then the doctor might expose other patients to this patient and that infectious disease may spread many times in hospitals patients become cured of a small disease and get afflicted by a bigger disease so we need to all be compassion is not just simply about being caring, it’s also about being careful with respect to medicine this can be easily understood but this applies to every walk of life suppose we give charity, we give we give money to somebody, we may think that oh, I am being caring but if we give money to a beggar and that beggar is also an alcoholic then they drink and they worsen their alcohol addiction and not only that, under the spell of alcohol they may go home and do further domestic abuse they may commit some further crime so often giving resources to those who are themselves addicted or hooked is the most dangerous thing that can be done for them so even when we want to be compassionate or charitable we need to have a caring heart but we also need to have a careful head and that means we need to understand the situation properly with our head and recognize what is actually going to benefit the person and what if done may actually not benefit but harm the person the Bhagavad Gita talks about charity also within the three modes of material nature and it recommends charity that is done in the mode of goodness so this is 1720 in the Gita and here Krishna is saying that consider the time, place, circumstance before giving charity and when it is given in the appropriate appropriate time, place, circumstance that means we are being careful now of course if we are giving charity that means we are caring so thus being charitable, being compassionate is a combination of having a careful of caring heart and a careful head thank you, Hare Krishna