prasada to poor people

[Guest guest]

At 10:42 AM 12/18/2001 -1000, you wrote:

>On 18 Dec 2001, Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

>

> > Thankyou, Jayadvaita Maharaja, for this analysis which reveals that

> > according to Srila Prabhupada there's a lot of mundane welfare work

> going on

> > in ISKCON.

>

>And George Harrison, was he a mundaine welfare worker? The first record I got

>from Iskcon was about George helping the hungry children in Bengladesh. So, he

>was to my opinion. Can we have both: like mundane and spt welfare work? Or it

>has to be only transcendental?

 

As Hari Sauri prabhu pointed out recently, an individual may do whatever he

or she sees fit. As for the institution, however, we should try our best to

ensure that it aims to fulfill the purposes for which it was founded. Srila

Prabhupada listed seven purposes when he established the International

Society for Krishna Consciousness:

(a) To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and

to educate all peoples in the techniques of spiritual life in order to

check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace

in the world.

(b) To propagate a consciousness of Krishna, as it is revealed in the

Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagwatam.

© To bring the members of the Society together with each other and nearer

to Krishna, the prime entity, thus to develop the idea within the members,

and humanity at large, that each soul is part and parcel of the quality of

Godhead (Krishna).

(d) To teach and encourage the sankirtan movement, congregational chanting

of the holy name of God as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya

Mahaprabhu.

(e) To erect for the members and for society at large, a holy place of

transcendental pastimes, dedicated to the Personality of Krishna.

(f) To bring the members closer together for the purpose of teaching a

simpler and more natural way of life.

(g) With a view towards achieving the aforementioned Purposes, to publish

and distribute periodicals, magazines, books and other writings.

 

If ISKCON's activities serve these purposes, I would suggest that they are

certainly authorized.

 

Babhru das

[Guest guest]

Dear Maharaja ,

 

Please accept my most humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.All glories to

Srila Prabhupad.

 

If this is the instructions of Srila Prabhupad "that we should not go to the

poor areas".

 

What happened to our Philosophy of "Para dukha dukhi".This means that we

feel unhappy by seeing others suffering. If we look in this way, it does

make sense that it becomes our duty to approach everyone.

 

Because, a Pandit sees everyone equally to including a dog.What to speak

about a poor person, who is supposedly to be in the poor area.

 

What I really want to understand is , "did Srila Prabhupad told us not to go

to the poor areas."

 

Or else it was an intruction given on due circumstances and not a permanent

instructions meant for our society as *a rule*.

 

It creates doubt to me that a Pure devotee like Srila Prabhupad could see it

in this way.Like Vasudev Datta, who was feeling so unhappy and said "let me

alone suffer and let everyone goes to Vaikuntha."

 

Who is today thinking like this and following in the foosteps of our Vaisnav

acaryas.

 

 

Mukta purusa das.