1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 17 - Shraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 22

he entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's  Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission

The Three Fold Gift - 20-22

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 17 - Shraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 22

Vibheeshana Sharanagati

Adesha kale yat danam apatrebhyah cha diyate I

Asatkrutam avagyatam tat tamasam udahrutam II sloka 22

अदेश काले यत् दानं अपात्रेभ्यः च दीयते I 

असत्कृतं अवज्ञातं तत् तामसं उदाहृतं ईई श्लोक 22

The gift that is given at a wrong place or time, to unworthy persons, without respect or with insult, that is declared to be tamasika

A wrong place is that which is dirty, full of disadvantages and uncongenial for residence. A wrong time is that which is set apart for sleep, toilet, personal concerns, and for unavoidable obligatory activities. Those are not the times suited to make gifts. Persons unworthy of charity and gifts are of questionable character, devoid of self-control, who do not engage themselves in the welfare of beings and who squander away money. When the recipients are received disrespectfully and insolently and when doling out is made with abuses and scoldings, - it is a tamasika gift 

Yajna dana and tapas are the holiest of all karmas; But even they have a tinge of evil inherent in them. How these evils are rectified is given in the next sloka