Srinagar, May 5 -- The religious traditions and the sacred scriptures have throughout highlighted the importance of charity and benevolent behaviour. Although one who receives is not to be taken as a lesser mortal and one who gives is likewise forbidden to boast about his generosity, yet spiritually or psychologically speaking, the one who gives ontologically reclaims a sort of higher meaning to his existence, thereby not identifying himself with the mere material possessions at his disposal but with something higher.

The possessions may have a limited utilitarian meaning, but identifying oneself to these limited meanings doesn't allow one to come out of a narrow and low-ceiling psyche, consequently making one's life devoid of a higher t...