From the Gospel – 18

MASTER: "At Vrindāvan one sees many places associated with Krishna's life."

SURENDRA: "We were there during the holidays.  Visitors were continually pestered for money.  The priests and others asked for it continually.  We told them that we were going to leave for Calcutta the next day, but we fled from Vrindāvan that very night."

MASTER: "What is that? Shame! You said you would leave the place the next day and ran away that very day.  What a shame!"

SURENDRA (embarrassed): "Here and there we saw the babajis in the woods practising spiritual discipline in solitude."

MASTER: "Did you give them anything?"

SURENDRA: "No, sir."

  

MASTER: "That was not proper of you.  One should give something to monks and devotees.  Those who have the means should help such persons when they meet them.