Hold the GBC Accowntable!

[Guest guest]

Dwibhuja:

 

I don't understand how I can put in good intentions and enthusiasm and get out

of it chastisement and negativity--do you have a converter?

 

Certainly you are accruing credit for taking care of cows, but as far as I'm

concerned, your texts are the worst on this conference. You paint everyone

else as negative and blasphemous, when that brush can just as easily paint

you.

 

As I said earlier, when you see a negative text, just go over it. Now I'll

break my own advice because I believe your negativity to be so strong and

offensive and persistent that it is definitely discouraging me from using this

conference to communicate and learn about cow protection.

 

Discredit me as you will for not actively participating in cow protection, but

I don't think that every GBC man or woman has actively participated in cow

protection, and you're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, so why

can't you ease up a little?

 

If others feel that it would be better for me to from this

conference, I will. In the typical quitter style of us offensive devotees, I

will remove myself so that I can let the gentle devotees like yourself carry

on conversation peacefully and in a beautiful tone.

 

I have been trying to make a good contribution to this conference, and I'm

sorry if I've offended devotees. I have tried to speak honestly, artfully, and

good-naturedly. I don't think I've said anything bad about anybody, yet I find

myself embroiled in conflict with you AGAIN. Is it possible that you are

trying to show yourself to be the dominant bull of the yard?

 

 

By the way, let's move on. If you feel like you must respond, please do so

privately. I'd prefer it, however, if you'd write something positive about

your realizations in Krishna consciousness or about cow protection.

 

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Money

 

50% for Krishna consciousness, 25% for family, and 25% for emergencies. Rupa

Goswami has set the example of how we can distribute our wealth, and I'm not

sure that I understand this principle the same as it was explained to me.

 

Once I asked a non-GBC member if these numbers referred to income after

expenses, and that devotee told me that these numbers referred to gross

income. I wonder how to pay the expenses then.

 

I bring this up because of the discussion between Dirk and Niscala regarding

the principle of cow protection and the economic reality. Dirk doesn't think

it possible to depend solely on the land as Niscala suggests. One example that

we have, of course, is Krishna's telling the cowherd men not to pay tribute to

Indra. After 7 days of weathering the samvartaka storm, Krishna had

reestablished the true agrarian economy free from the artificial taxes imposed

by the universal government.

 

Now, what I have noticed in my few years of experience as a living entity

who's trying to become a human being, is that expenses eat up a good

percentage of my income so that the above formula must be adjusted.

 

I noticed that Rupa Goswami gave 50% of his SAVINGS. Savings, according to my

understanding, are what you have after expenses. So now the question is how

much can we save per month?

 

And I think this is a very important distinction. The reason I'm bringing it

up is because Dirk says it's impossible to be free of expenses, and I agree.

Niscala says that if we follow Krishna's instructions and worship Govardhana

Hill, He will give us all the shelter we need. So the synthesis of these two

ideas is that we must have money to pay for expenses, and we can apply the

above formula to the remainder of those monies.

 

Has anyone noticed how fabulously wealthy the Mormons are? They have several

temples in Los Angeles much larger than ours on Watseka. They tithe at 10%.

So, if we attempt to save 20% of our incomes, and divide that according to

Rupa Goswami's formula, we will be able to give 10% to Krishna, 5% to our

family, and 5% for emergencies. Does anyone talk about this? I find that it's

quite possible to put aside income if we can afford a little austerity.

 

The next question is to whom these monies (collective) should go, and how they

should be spent. Maybe this is too controversial for the cow conference, but

since I've already stepped into controversy, I might as well go on. I am, with

my personal income, trying to reduce my intake of industrial goods (much like

the Amish), even in the city. I believe that we must do without some of the

benefits of raping the earth and cow so that we don't take more than our share

(Isha 1) and so that we can afford to purchase the items necessary to live in

the world of cows.

 

Gaura hari,

 

Ram Prasad