Here is a mail I just wrote to one of my friends (husband and wife). Ofcourse I have deleted the names.
Hey X and Hey Y! :-)
Here is some wonderful and inspiring news! Its almost as if Lord Krishna has replied to X's mail... Read on!
Yesterday we had a meeting where devotees were telling there fund raising experiences. Here are a few.
1. One of the lady devotees gave Rs 2000 to her maid servant as her one month salary. The maid servant immediately returned the amount and said that this she wants to donate to the construction of the new temple! The devotee was so touched by this that she is going to now sell one flat she owns and give all that money to the temple construction! Jai Shri Krishna! :-)
2. In another devotee's house, the maid servant got so inspired by the tireless and sincere efforts of the devotees to serve the Lord by building a magnificent temple for Him, that she started telling about it to the other houses she goes for work. And because of this she has already collected atleast Rs 10,000!
3. One 11 year old boy asked the devotees "Can I also sponsor one square foot?" And the devotees asked how he could do that? The boy replied that for the past three years he has been collecting funds in his small piggy bank on the Ganesh Utsav day. He has so far collected Rs 2100! This boy actually did sponsor Rs. 2000 for one sq.ft.
4. Devotees were going around to big shops to raise funds. When they came out of one shop, they saw a shopkeeper who was selling some things sitting on the footpath and he asked these devotees what they were doing... The devotees told him.. not really expecting anything from him.. But to their great surprise, the man instructed his wife to go home and bring Rs 2000 for one sq. ft.!
Thus we see that I have already told you how 13 sq.ft. got sponsored from people whom we least expect (this does not include the money that will come by selling off the flat!). However, this teaches us that while serving the Supreme Lord with love and devotion, mundane vision and mundane calculations are not always good enough. The temple of the Lord is going to get built whether we donate or not. It is only our great fortune that the Lord has so easily given us this wonderful opportunity to serve Him. We just have to donate some amount of money which we will anyway spend in temporary things. Cant we donate some to the one who has provided us all the money? Are we so ungrateful?
I hope your hearts have been touched by all the events I have narrated. Please think about this very seriously. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. All scriptures say that building a temple for Lord Krishna is one of the most glorious activities. A vibrant temple of Lord Krishna becomes the hub for the welfare of all humanity. The real welfare of the humanity is not in getting good food and shelter and clothes... These are definitely necessary things... but not the real eternal welfare. The eternal welfare is for people to start understanding, loving, and serving Krishna. And for this purpose only are we building this magnificent temple.
Please open up your hearts to encompass the whole humanity and not just one or two people. Please join us in raising this glorious offering of Love to the Supreme Personality of Godhead -- Lord Sri Krishna.
You will not get such an opportunity again..
Your ever well wisher,
Abhijit.
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