prasada to poor people; some relevant quotes

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On 30 Dec 2001, Mahanidhi das wrote:

 

> There is a possibility for both cows and sheep to walk through

> the same pasture. You first let the cows, they walk and they eat

> the grass but up to the certain level only. Then sheep may walk

> behind, for they eat the grass up to earth. Would sheep go first,

> cows would starve from lack of their food. So in ISKCON, have those

> who are concerned about the performance of the "highest" activities

> do it, yet there is the place for those others to walk behind them

> with their "more-to-earth" activities.

 

I pretty much like this example, although I will say that there is a confusion

of identities. The cows are like the grhastas, they are the ones who feed the

sannyasis. Sannyasis take what we give them and not the reverse, like they

wanted to see it in the movement.