With reference to the boys holding kirtanas independently, our propaganda
should be like that. That people may open different centers of their own, or
each and every householder may have his own class at home. Not that everyone
is required to join the society; they may take the idea from the society and
introduce in their private life.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Rayarama — Unknown Place Unknown Date
The temple center is started just to present example to the neighboring
residents how they can make a small temple in each and every home. It is not
necessary that hundreds and thousands of people will live in our temple, but
if we can make effective propaganda, then the neighboring residents,
householders, will be inclined to be initiated and follow the modes of
temple life. So you encourage the visitors, boys and girls as well as
married couples, to understand the value of life and how they can peacefully
and happily live if they follow the routine worship method in the temple and
establish this in their home to be happy in all respects.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala Krsna — New Vrindaban 1 June, 1969
TKG comments (in Servant of the Servant):
It was not expected that all of our guests would renounce their homes and
jobs to take up residence in the temple. The temple was meant to be a
training center, where they could learn to practice a Krsna conscious
life-style, later transferring this experience into their own homes. In
Krsna’s birthplace, Vrndavana, the ideal place for executing devotional
service, there are over five thousand temples, most of which are in private
homes. The gosvami disciples of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu constructed the
main temples, and seeing their example, generations of their followers
established all the others.
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