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Mayapur Temple Development Serves Previous Acharyas, Expanding KC Throughout Bengal

📅 November 8, 1977 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 46 min
Service to the previous acharyas, executed without spiritual strain, transforms the world through Krishna consciousness.
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Prabhupāda: Don't strain for collecting. Then spiritual progress will be hampered. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Don't strain for collecting. Then spiritual progress will be hampered.

Jayapatākā: It seems that the temple could be completed within seven years without straining.

Jayapatākā: Then we can have it completed by the five-hundredth-year anniversary of Lord Caitanya...

Jayapatākā: And the architect at Māyāpur, he said that the temple that's inside the big temple, that could be opened up to the public within three years by having just some type of false ceiling, and then the upper stories, work can go on. That means within three years people could start visiting the temple and using it, which will also be a big inspiration to the public. And then the upstairs and complete outside would be completed. Prabhupāda: Do like that. That is very good idea.

And different name, you can purchase. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust? Prabhupāda: Hmm. Jayapatākā: Each of the..., like gośāla, handloom, these can be separately formed into societies, which would be easier for bookkeeping and management anyway, and each of those societies can purchase the land on which their handloom or gośāla, whatever is, they can purchase that land in that name. Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya bhūmi Trust. Jayapatākā: Mr. Chowdury tried, but now he's been transferred from the development commissioner. Now he's the transport commissioner. So now all he can do is give us a free...

He gives us, tax free, vehicles. But he can't give us the land anymore. Prabhupāda: Tax free? Jayapatākā: Our vehicles in Bengal, we don't pay any road tax. He's the transport commissioner, but now he's no longer development commissioner. And if the government gives us some land on acquisition, we'll take.

But I don't think they'll give a big amount, neither we should wait for that. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. That's also utopian. Jayapatākā: When they see we're doing something, automatically they want to also help. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And that bridge is a good idea. Pontoon bridge. Jayapatākā: Because so many tourists are coming.

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