A sannyasi keeps 'his' donations - is this a joke?

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>It does not have to go necessarily for "sense gratification."

>Like, having a house. A bank balance. This is just economical

>security. OK for grhastas. Not for sannyasi.

 

Agreed. That's what I mean by sense gratification for a sannyasi!

 

>BTW, may I ask you, why do you think that a sannyasi should

>not "surrender" money that he gets as a guru daksina to

>ISKCON temple, or some other ISKCON project? What he gonna

>to do with it?

 

I agree with you: you have not understood what I have said.

 

Every sannyasi (or for that matter any other devotee) HAS to use the

donations he receives for Krsna's purposes only. That is, minimum

maintenance for himself, travelling for preaching, and any other Iskcon

project - whether his own or someone else's.

 

My only objection is to make it compulsory to give it to a PARTICULAR temple

instead of his own choice of Krsna's service.

 

>This guru-daksina business is spoiling ISKCON and people.

>Money is powerful. Our gurus may be competing to get

>more followers simply in order to get more money from

>them, thus insuring their position of control in the

>society.

 

I don't agree with this. It is unnecesarily negative and unfair to all the

sincere sannyasis and gurus. Why blame all if some are like that?

 

I *have* seen grhastha TPs who have become either lazy and complacent or

fully puffed up and power hungry from collecting donations. But the solution

is not to say they must not receive donations.

 

The solution is to have policies, controls, and audits of expenditures made

by everyone in Iskcon from donations received by them. At least the bigger

amounts. Ours must be the ONLY organisation in the world where millions of

dollars can be received and spent without anyone to audit what you have done

with the money.