Are we not supposed to help people?? Do YOU believe in Karma? Is helping poor people taking away their godly punishment?

I am not sure when Indian things got to USA. ('60s?)
I am not sure if it is cultural appropriation for Whites.
I am not sure if there is any wisdom to any of it (chakras, karma, past lives... etc.)

Sadghuru guy says that we shouldn't help people because let them steep in their misery it is their karma. I don't like that guy very much.

I know that in USA, few people help anyone who isn't family. Many will not even give a dollar to their mother or sister or brother or son.

HOW do you feel about helping the less fortunate, and where are you from? (if you care to share, no obligation, no data mining!)

I know that when I was down on my luck, the so-called friends were all like "God doesn't give you anything you can't handle. Well, I have to go, I have a dinner to attend with my wealthy friends" and the like. A few were like "I'll pray for you, I gotta go, my sock that got lost in the wash is calling to me from the basement!"


Would you give money to a homeless person? How much? A dollar? $10? Buy them food? I've done all of this. Or do you LIE TO YOURSELF and tell yourself that they chose that lifestyle as career?

Do you NEVER put yourself in their place? Do you not realize that having money in your pocket and your going home doesn't do anything at all to alleviate THEIR reality, even if you tell yourself lies?

Do you not understand how people were PREVENTED from working, that money doesn't grow on trees, that many lost it all and that a few were jailed when they opened their business and worked?!

I am unique? Am I the only one who contacts people trying to help them even though I don't have much myself? And then it backfires: people don't reciprocate; people turn on me; people get back on their feet, tables are turned and the people I saved wouldn't spit on me if I were on fire.

How do I become ruthless, like so many of you, like the very sad guru, the evil guru, and sleep at night when others are suffering and going hungry? I have gone hungry many times recently, 5 weeks at a time, I called everywhere: no one helped me. So what should I tell myself to become ruthless and uncaring like you?