Hello, I'm AJ Hogue, the author of Effortless English,

learn to speak English like a native.

The spiritual benefits of contribution,

the spiritual reasons for contribution, for focusing on contribution that's our topic today talking to you from

Indiana here in the United States it's a warm spring day today we've got a storm coming strong

winds I'm outside in the yard here.

We've got strong winds. You might hear it in my microphone. I'm sorry.

Supposed to have big storms tonight and a tornado warning. So they get tornadoes. We get tornadoes here in Indiana.

Which, uh, if you guys have seen the movie Twister, then you know what those are.

Some countries don't get them.

I don't think, I think Japan doesn't get tornadoes.

I never heard of a tornado in Japan, but here they get them.

Of course, Japan gets typhoons, so...

Let's talk about it.

Here's a quote from the Bhagavad Gita.

Charity given at the right time and place to a worthy person without expecting anything in return

is the highest form of giving.

So what does that mean?

Let's go through this step by step, because I think this is an excellent teaching on the topic of giving contribution.

So here we're talking about charity.

It's obviously the original is written in Sanskrit. So charity, here we're

talking about contribution or giving. It's not just about money. In fact, we're going to talk

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