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Dr. Sharma: Many of the even small temples in villages, their revenue have been taken away after independence. There are many small temples in where I come from, our village in Rajasthan. And when I was a small boy I used to go to the temple because, you know, my grandfather and my father used to go to the.... And there was a very rich life in the villages because, you know, the early morning, we would take a shower, bath, and go to the temples and do our puja, and the temple also we'd get some prasadam, and there was some land grants attached to a temple, some cows...
(More...) Dr. Sharma: Contribution. And there was a real rich life in Indian village. Now, after independence, that life has been really destroyed. Because the grants have been taken away and here, it's really a pain to see such beautiful temples having no maintenance now. Plus this so-called secular education, you know, godless education they have introduced, that has further harmed, because the temple-going public has also dwindled in number. And it looks like there has been a systematic plan to undermine our...
(More...) Prabhupada: Oh, yes, by this Congress. Their opinion is that India, being too much religious, is spoiled.
(More...) Prabhupada: The brahmanas, they, from your Rajasthan, the other day I got report. Twenty thousand brahmanas have come here in Bombay to serve as tea-walla.
(More...) Prabhupada: So who is caring for the... Because there is no maintenance, there is no education, so how the brahmanas are being maintained?
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