SV: prasada to poor people; some relevant quotes

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> Who is 'we'? Your opinion is certainly not one that Srila Prabhupada

> shared. You are forgetting a few very important points:

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> 1. That the Mayapur Temple project was Srila Prabhupada's idea.

 

I have not forgotten. I am not objecting either.

 

> 2. That the vision of Sri Mayapur Dham was seen by Srila

> Bhaktivinoda Thakura, and Srila Prabhupada was acting on this

> vision when he expressed his desire to build it.

 

Same. No objection at all.

 

> 3. 'We' do not build temples to 'attract materialists', we build

> them for the glorification of the Supreme Lord.

>

 

True. Though the question is -- by whom?

 

As Srila Prabhupada was saying, the devotees of Krsna do not

need the fabulously costly grand-temples in order to worship/

glorify the Lord there, but they can just sit under a tree.

"Puspam, patram... + bhakti".

 

That what is of more importance for the devotees in the line

of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who are not bhajanandis, is to attract

conditioned souls to start worshiping Krsna as The Absolute Truth.

Thus an introspective searcher after the Truth will be attracted

by the superior philosophy. But most of the people are less

intelligent and more materialistically minded. Thus they will be

attracted rather to the superior external appearances such as the

huge domes of the marvelously erased temple that is reaching high

into the sky, where elaborate ceremonies of worshiping God take

the place. In the psychology of a materialistically conditioned

person, that bigger and more grandious temple, that bigger

"proof" that it must be the house of almighty God where to go

worship him. They aren't att all impressed nor attracted by

a sadhu's bhajan kutir, though Krsna is really there where His

pure devotee is.

 

Even Prince Charles of England has become attracted to the Holy

Dham of Mayapur. Because he has gotten this passion for Krsna?

No. The extraordinary architecture of the designed temple.

 

> I believe that this might bear some resemblance to ISKCON's purposes - not

> something that you might object to out of misplaced sentiment.

 

I only spoke about possible lack of balance there.

 

 

 

- mnd