Prabhupada answered simply. "You become guided by Bhagavad-gita. Brahmanas means they are teachers. Pathana-paathana-yajana-yaajana-dana-pratigrahah. So every temple should be educational center, and the brahmanas should be engaged. They should be properly educated and they should teach others also. In this way, temple means education in spiritual life. And actually spiritual life is life. This material life, the bodily conception of life, is dead life."
Citing the example of the vulture, which flies high in the sky while only looking for dead bodies on the ground, he compared it with modern civilization. "These aeronautics, they went to very high, suppose they went to moon. But after going there they find, 'Where is Moscow? Where is this?' The same vulture business. So this Krsna consciousness movement is the only hope to give relief to the human society. So everyone should cooperate with this movement. Unfortunately, there are so many envious persons, they are writing against us, talking against us. They should be envious: because they want to exploit, keeping the people in ignorance. So our preaching is very difficult task, still we are trying our best."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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