That type of kindness which does not give rise to manda, or evil, is termed amandodaya daya. For example, if a sick man is allowed to eat forbidden items or a drunkard is helped to proceed to a liquor shop, kindness is indeed shown, but that kindness later turns out harmful to the person who receives it. If the sick man is placed under medical treatment against his will, if the drunkard is protected from his evil course, amandodaya daya, non-harm-producing kindness, is shown. Preventing floods and famines, nursing the sick, pleasing or displeasing anyone, or stultifying anyone’s faculty of consciousness (i.e., promoting voidism) every one of these is an instance of mandodaya daya, harm-producing kindness.
H.D.G. #Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada
Journal “The Harmonist”.
June 1927
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