prasada to poor people; some relevant quotes

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> In any society there are different departments that focus on different

> activities. We have departments that focus on cultivating the rich donors

> and life members. For them there is special free prasadam, often brought

> to their house or shop. No one has objected to this discrimination.

 

Thank you for bringing this, among other points, to the attention.

 

There is estimated $800 000 000 needed to be raised for the

construction of the biggest and the most gorgeous temple ever

seen on the surface of this planet. Some devotees can get crashed

down under the burden of such incredible money rising campaign.

Not to speak of all other different dangers, starting with

their selective approach to the conditioned souls that is based

on "money" criteria.

 

Anyway, the point is that there is no balance there. "Give us

money for the biggest temple in the world" is no problem but

"Give us money for the prasadam to be given to hungry" is criticized

as too bad. It simply makes no sense. We want to build such a most

costly and grandiose construction for the sake of impressing and

attracting the materialistically minded people of this world

(Vaisnavas don't need costly temple for their bhajan). And in the

same time we want to kill the program that distributes the free

prasada to the hungry people on the pretext that it is "materialistic"

activity that no humanity can reap any permanent benefit. As if that

parameter deciding over what is "permanent" benefit would be such

kind of criteria as the longevity of the breaks and stones of the

temple, as compared to the quality of prasadam (that perishes in

the seconds and minutes being quickly eaten up by hungry people).

 

Though, personally believing, would FFL give away half of the

collection to other ISKCON project such as the construction of

the Mayapur temple, I am sure all the required quotes to prize

such an activity as FFL would easily be found and no campaign

against it would ever come to a possibility be mounted.

 

 

> So who is seeing Krishna as mundane? It is

> the devotees who object to this distribution. They see the prasadam as

> food, not as Krishna, and therefore they confuse it for a mundane

> activity.

 

I think this should be obvious to everybody. Except to those

who, out of whatever reason, consciously refuse to acknowledge

that what is obvious to even non-devotees: That it is about prasada

("Hare Krsna food") and not just any food, and that it is Vaisnavas

devotees ("Hare Krsnas") and not some welfare fruitive workers who

are distributing it. But would that be acknowledged, then the selected

quotes aimed at cutting down the FFL program wouldn't be possible

to stand up as "just up to point".

 

The modern history has not yet recorded such a massive

distribution of Krsna's prasada (yes, mostly to poor and

hungry) on such a grand scale. It looks like it escaped

all the "Scyllas and Charybdis" of this world. Well, so

far so, so to say...

 

Shall we kill it?

 

 

 

- mnd