Localized management = Decentralization of power and influence?!

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> Again what is the goal.

> Do we want to expand our temples into big big temples, buying more and

> more buildings in cities and reliant on donations or do we want to expand

> our temples into Varnasrama communities where the money and power goes out

> of the hands of the present structure and into the hands of the people and

> families who make up the ISKCON we preached so hard to find originally.

 

I think you "hit the nail on the head" by your statement.

Hope the "bells are ringing" somewhere...

 

> What is the goal of preaching and preaching and preaching and raising

> funds if the funds don't go towards helping the people we preached to a

> few years before who are thus going away?

 

> What is the point of raising more and more funds from Indians if there is

> no community based farm project to put the money into,to house the

> housholder asrama which is the bulk of our society. Or school to further

> educate our children (as they all have to go outside at 11 yrs). Where

> is the future? Maybe there is one, if there is I would like to hear about

> it.

 

I also.

 

your servant

Harsi das