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> > > SP in one tape mentions about vanaprasthas who come to Vrndavana but

> > > leaving lakhs of rupees with relations back home. SP said, "krsna is

> > > very intelligent- what you've left lakhs back to your relatives, and

> > > you've come to vraja to love me with your beads? where's the money

> > > rascal"

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

It seems that this is connected with 50%/25%/25% rule of dividing ones

savings.

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Srila Rupa Gosvami was the younger brother of Sanatana Gosvami, and when he

retired from service he brought with him two boat fulls of gold coins. This

means that he brought with him some hundreds of thousands of rupees

accumulated by the labor of his service. And before leaving home for Lord

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he divided the wealth as follows: fifty percent for the

service of the Lord and His devotees, twenty-five percent for relatives and

twenty-five percent for his personal needs in case of emergency. In that way

he set an example for all householders.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB Introduction

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Srila Prabhupada here says, that exemplary action for householders, upon

leaving home for spiritual life, is to divide wealth accumulated by their

labor according to 50/25/25% rule.

 

He also said later on:

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If the leaders and the rich men of the society spend fifty percent of their

accumulated wealth mercifully for the misled mass of people and educate them

in God consciousness, the knowledge of Bhagavatam, certainly the age of Kali

will be defeated in its attempt to entrap the conditioned souls.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.17.24

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It seems, that householder must be saving throughout his life, accumulating

wealth, but when he retires, he gives 25% to family, 25% he keeps for

personal emergency, and 50% of savings goes to the service of the Lord and

His devotees.

 

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Just like Rupa Gosvami. He accumulated much wealth. He brought in a big

boat, all gold coins. So... So he distributed fifty percent to the brahmana

and Vaisnava and twenty-five percent he gave to the relatives, and

twenty-five percent he kept for his personal emergency. This is example

shown by Rupa Gosvami.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay

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your servant Giri-nayaka das

 

 

> > PAMRO AGTSP!

> >

> > > SP in one tape mentions about vanaprasthas who come to Vrndavana but

> > > leaving lakhs of rupees with relations back home. SP said, "krsna is

> > > very intelligent- what you've left lakhs back to your relatives, and

> > > you've come to vraja to love me with your beads? where's the money

> > > rascal"

> > >

> > > any slokas or pramanas here?

> >

> > I don't know if anyone provided you any "pramana" on this but i wonder

> > what better pramana can we have than hearing something from Srila

> > Prabhupada? I mean if Srila Prabhupada has said it then it's a pramana

> > in itself, that is, "what you've left lakhs back to your relatives, and

> > you've come to vraja to love me with your beads? where's the money

> > rascal". Even if Krishna didn't say this He would come and say it just

> > to ensure that no one can prove Srila Prabhupada wrong when he speaks

> > about Krishna.

> >

> > Hare Krishna.

> >

> > ys, bbd

>

> I remember something like this, although the exact words I don't

> know. But I do remember Srila Prabhupada criticising men who retire to

> Vrndavana, leave everything to their children and relatives, and give

> nothing to Krsna.

>

> Your humble servant,

> Hari-sauri dasa