Another comment on salary

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On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at 06:19 pm, Mahavegavati Dasi ((ACBSP))

wrote:

 

> I am assuming by your statement, "Really? When I was

> in my Guru Maharaja's asrama there was never any

> idea of this... and I would never ever have expected

> it anywhere..." that you are referring to Srila

> Prabhupada's mathas.

 

Actually, no - his Asrama is not inside ISKCON - but that is by-the-by.

I would not expect salaries in any temple or asrama, Gaudiya Vaisnava

or not, and I accept your points wholeheartedly.

 

Don't get me wrong, I think people need to be looked after and not

worry (after all, if they worry about things, then they can't serve

Krsna properly). However, my comment there was, I suppose, me trying to

say that when I lived in the asrama as a brahmacari there was never a

question of that. The asrama provides for everything, but the

brahmacaris don't need anything. That's how it ought to be. A loving

affair - they tend the deity, and are therefore looked after in kind.

The brahmacaris and sannyasis are renounced, so all they need is some

funds put aside together to nicely look after the deity, to preach

well, and to look after themselves a bit - but not personal funds!

Share and share alike... all we had was the asrama chequebook, and

whoever had some coins in their kurta pockets!

 

Ys., Rama Kesava dasa

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> I believe there is a big difference between hiring some hotel managers

> (thereby allowing the devotees to do what they do best, namely preaching)

> and hiring purjaris/brahmacaris for temple seva.

>

> The letter where Srila Prabhupada speaks of hiring managers was in regards

> to how to run the hotel being made in Bombay.

>

> The letter where Srila Prabhupada says no ISKCON member receives salary

> was in regards to temple devotees.

 

 

So then the unpaid TP should manange the paid managers of the Temple

businesses . I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a

Temple President .

 

YSYS