SV: prasada to poor people; some relevant quotes

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> Mahanidhi wrote:

> >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).

 

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

shared. You are forgetting a few very important points:

 

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

 

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.

 

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

them for the glorification of the Supreme Lord.

 

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

something that you might object to out of misplaced sentiment.

 

your servant

Braja Sevaki devi dasi

 

 

 

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.