Is building temples what Indians should be doing just now, after Ayodhya?
Ours is not merely a temple. It will be a place where we can disseminate knowledge about the soul, which is beyond all religion. This is not a cheap conversion trick. Many of our devotees have not even changed their original religion. We have two Sikhs and two Jains among our community of 41 adults. We stand above religion. Prabhupada presented Krishna as a God of the whole world. What kind of people do you see visiting your temple after it is built? I think that we will have many regular visitors from Bangalore. No tourist who visits Bangalore will miss this place. Apart from the Vidhana Soudha, what is there that they can really see here? When there is severe poverty in the country are you justified in wanting to spend Rs 10 crore on a temple? We believe that ignorance of what they should and should not do is the root cause of all the problems that people face today. We are trying to rid them of this ignorance and reduce the quantum of the four activities that Prabhupada has called p
