--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The fee or donation for being given a mantra and guidance were
> introduced in the US. So far as I've noticed there is always a
> presumption that it is okay to charge amongst those on FFL.
> But there is another view that sees it as iniquitous to levy a fee
for
> something that is essentially spiritual. For all the talk about
> going 'independent', there is seemingly still a great attachment to
> making money out of the teaching.
> It seems that this has been the dilemma right from the start of
> the 'movement'. Now the movement is imploding perhaps it is a good
time
> to not repeat the same strokes.
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If I'm not mistaken, Paul, your book, with its aspirations to talking
about spirituality, has a price tag at Barnes and Noble. Nobody
operates in society without money -- the reason why Guru Dev did not
solicit money was because he was not interested, by virtue of his
lifelong committment to being alone (and the fact that he did not
speak the world language, English, nor had a modern education), in
spreading the Vedic wisdom in society -- he left that to MMY.
In this complicated industrialized world, putting price tags on
things is simply a convenience for spreading knowledge. There has
always been a fee ("gurudakshina") for teaching Vedic knowledge, the
most famous example being Lord Krishna Himself paying the fee to his
preceptor:
http://members.rediff.com/saivani/KrishnaandBalarama.htm
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