By His Holiness Kavichandra Swami
It is quite obvious that in any religion monks represent a small minority. People have to be trained. Congregational preaching means to train everybody. The home can be an ashram also, but they have to learn what an ashram is like.
If we are going to take over the world, obviously we are going to have to reach out and welcome everybody in. We need different levels to bring people up step by step. Not everyone can immediately follow everything. We need to train people to study scripture, perform kirtanas, and worship the deity so that everybody can get fixed up.
Preaching is not supposed to be only for the sannyasis and brahmacaris. Preaching is for everyone. We have to have temples with strong ashrams to in- spire the congregation. You always need a big temple for festivals. The devotees in the ashram should respect the congregation. Many time we find that some of them are better and more strict than the ashram devotees. Sometimes in the temples we have bums and also sometimes in the congregation we will have people who are not so strict. We want to give everybody a chance by having programs, magazines and meetings just to let everybody in on it. Then we will have the whole world singing and dancing.
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