I can remember a child who was homeless running behind our horse drawn carriage some place like New Delhi and I didn't want this child to fall and get injured running behind our carriage then. So, i threw this child a quarter because his mother and sister couldn't run as fast as he could. Other times I and my family might have been riding a rickshaw someplace too then with people everywhere begging for food. They were everywhere and you really couldn't get away from them unless you were in a hotel that was guarded by people or inside a home or restaurant where people guarded you from being accosted by begging starving people then.
I can remember thousands of people with Leprocy lining a road to a sacred Meditational Cave used at one point by Padmasambhava and other Great Saints of Asia.
What is awful about this is that about 4 dollars worth of medicine here in the U.S. would have prevented each of their leprosy. This is just to show you how poor people are or were then in India.
If they could beg 50 cents American for a scoop of rice with an ice cream scooper they lived, if not they didn't eat anything that day.
Most Americans cannot even imagine how bad it is around the world in 3rd world Countries with people trying to stay alive with no social programs in place at all. No medical, no food, no survival without begging and living on the streets somewhere.
So now, can you actually imagine how much worse it is for people in countries where there is no access at all to gas or diesel because they have no oil refining capacities in those nations and no oil tankers coming there at all?
I don't think you can unless you have seen it first hand like I have.
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