Fw: Sale of New Vraja Mandala?

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COM: Prahladananda Swami <Prahladananda.Swami (AT) bbt (DOT) se>

Bir Krishna Goswami <70324.1511 (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>; COM: Radha Krsna (das)

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COM: Syamasundara (das) (Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK) <Syamasundara (AT) bbt (DOT) se>

Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:56 AM

Re: Sale of New Vraja Mandala?

 

 

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> Camp: Melbourne, Australia

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> Dear Balabhadra prabhu,

> Please accept my greetings and the blessings of Lord Krsna. All

> glories to Srila Prabhupada!

>

> > We have not finalized anything yet. But here are some ideas of how it

> > could possibly be done. The first text is by Syamasundara and the second

> > by Madhava Gosh on the cow conference. We are thinking this now would be

a

> > good time to seriously engage in this discussion on the cow

conference

> > to see what more we can come up with.

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> Thank you for the comments on the discussion. It seems from the

> discussion that practically to get devotees to work the land one would

> practically have to be fairly liberal in leasing the land. Then the other

> problem is supervising who is given the land and how much they should give

> in return.

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> In a country like Spain there have been certain problems like:

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> 1. Few devotees have any real interest in farming.

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> 2. There are a number of devotees on the farm who have little interest in

> Krsna consciousness.

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> 3. Honesty in the case of a number of devotees is questionable.

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> 4. The devotees who would have the ability to supervise the situation are

> also rare.

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> 5. The criteria for who can get the land, how they should use it, and what

> they should give in return seems very complicated.

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> Given the above, selling the land and using it for some smaller

> project would seem more straight forward and perhaps less entangling.

>

> Hope all is well.

>

> Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada,

> Prahladananda Swami

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