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category: Temples - Iskcon etc, question by: shushank gupta, posted on: 23rd January 2011 02:01:57 pm

Q. In temple should food should be given to beggars...

what you say about Priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotee....
The place and the time can influence you..for god?

answer by: शांतनु(Shantanu), posted on: 23rd January 2011 02:01:00 pm

Ans. Priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotee
Priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotees
Veda says that all the angels reside in the body of the priest, who is the scholar of the correct Vedic knowledge [Yaavatirvai..].The priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotees, which is the desire to fulfill their ambitions through rituals. The ignorant priest is doing all this foolish act to earn some money from the devotees. The devotee, instead of getting the good fruit is punished in the hell for burning the ghee and other materials in the physical fire.
The priest is also severely punished in the hell and since he is the initiator of this sin, he is punished with poverty also in this life itself. The essence of all Vedic rituals in only to save the life of humanity suffering with hunger. The entire aim is misinterpreted and is mislead leading the devotees to hell. Lord Krishna asked the wives of sages to give food to his friends suffering with hunger even before the ritual thereby establishing the actual aim of the ritual, which is only to feed the hungry people.

answer by: Nikhil, posted on: 23rd January 2011 02:01:26 pm

Ans. In temple should food should be given to beggars a
In temple should food should be given to beggars and poor deserving persons only
The temple funds must be spent by the wise management of temple only in proper ways
You are donating money to the temple after getting some benefit from God through a business-contract. The devotee says that if he gets 1 lakh rupees, he will donate 10 percent to God. Such business-contract is the worst way of love to God. You are giving your wealth to your children without such business- contract. God is not having even the value of your children! However, when you donate something to the temple, they are giving the food to all the devotees as the remains of offering to God [Prasadam]. Even the rich devotees, who are not in need of food also are forced to eat it due to fear. Therefore, your donation is not properly utilized. Let the capable rich devotees make their own arrangements for their food. The management of the temple should give food to beggars and poor deserving persons only.
If there is extra money, let it be used in serving the poor people and beggars in other ways. It is also good to spend the money in propagation of devotion through several programs. Thus there is no proper utilization of your donation. The government is grabbing some of the funds of the temple for social service. Everybody knows the misuse of funds in every social work. Let the government spend the taxes and other revenues only in such social works. The temple funds must be spent by the wise management of temple only in proper ways mentioned as above.

answer by: dattaswami, posted on: 23rd January 2011 02:01:57 pm

Ans. The place and the time can never influence your donation
Only the deservingness of the receiver decides the fruit of your donation
The place [desha] and the time [kaala] can never influence your donation. Only the deservingness of the receiver decides the fruit of your donation. Krishna did not donate wealth to Kuchela at Varanasi on Maha Shivaratri. When the most deserving Kuchela was found, that place is Varanasi and that day is Maha Shivaratri. Krishna spent almost the entire life to search for a deserving receiver. You do not have patience to search a deserving receiver for your petty donation. Instead of purchasing sin by your petty donations on such foolish occasions, you better accumulate all those petty donations and donate the entire accumulated wealth when you find a real deserving receiver.
You will get very high fruit for such accumulated donation. Instead of this, you are purchasing the sin in bits only through your petty donations on such foolish occasions in specified places. The deservingness of receiver [paatra] alone decides the result of your donation and there is no trace of influence of place [desha] and time[kaala] on the result. You must not do donation with emotion. Several beggars exploit you by kindling your emotion through false appearance by creating sympathy in your heart. You can find a beggar limping during the process of donation in the railway compartment. As soon as he gets down from that compartment, he walks straightly and more fast than yourself! He gets into the next compartment and starts again limping! Therefore, you should have patience and analysis to study the deservingness of receiver and you should not be fooled at any cost.

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