Service Opportunity - Executive Director, Sri Mayapur Vikas Sangha

[Guest guest]

> Considering the fact that 100% of the funds for the workers involved was

> coming from the UNDP, the SMVS director at the time felt he was obliged to

> cooperate with their request.

>

Yes, this is the problem when you become obliged to the karmis.

Simply for some money we have to sell out our principles and become directly

involved in the sinful acts of the karmis.

 

> As of March, the UNDP program is complete and so SMVS is no longer

> involved in condom distribution in any way.

 

This is not much consolation. What you are really saying here is

that if the UNDP program was not complete, we would still be involved in

their illicit activities. The cessation of the program in March isn't a plus

for us in any way. What happens the next time the UN or some other

organization wants to involve the SMVS in sinful acts? Will the managers

again feel obliged to participate?

 

What we should be asking ourselves is what would Srila Prabhupada

say about such activity? There is only one answer to that, and I can say

with complete conviction that the SMVS is way off the mark for its

involvement in this nonsense. How can we expect the mercy of Lord Caitanya

and the acaryas for building Their temple and spiritual city if we deviate

in this way? Better to can the whole enterprise of the SMVS than become

compromised and violate our spiritual principles. There are other avenues

and ways, bona-fide and approved by Srila Prabhupada, for cultivating and

benefitting the local population than behaving like a bunch of karmis.

 

The whole operation of the SMVS imho needs a very serious re-think.

Whatever you write in your aim and objectives, if in the real world you sell

out our Krsna conscious principles at the first sign of pressure from the

asuras, then the rhetoric is worthless.

 

Your humble servant,

Hari-sauri dasa