{"id":33468,"date":"2016-11-17T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/153308025141"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:37:18","slug":"cooperation-is-higher-than-integrity-mahatma-das-today-i-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=33468","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation is Higher Than Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cooperation is Higher Than Integrity.
\nMahatma das: Today I heard a wonderful story. A devotee wrote Srila Prabhupada because his disagreed with the tactics devotees were using to raise donations, tactics supported by the Temple President. He expressed his specific concerns in his letter to Srila Prabhupada.<\/p>\n

In Srila Prabhupada\u2019s reply, he did not address the issue. He did not say he favored one idea over the other. All he said was, \u201cI just want you to work well together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some argue that it is not right to cooperate when we believe that something wrong is being done. Yet Srila Prabhupada makes it clear that more important than who or what is right, is learning to work well together despite our differences. Some will say this is a compromise of one\u2019s individual integrity because one is acting against one\u2019s core beliefs.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean we remain silent or pretend nothing is wrong. What it means is we mature to a level in which we can still work enthusiastically and cooperatively even when we disagree. I would call this a far higher form of integrity than non-cooperation. And what is the use of that \u201cintegrity\u201d that ignores Srila Prabhupada\u2019s desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Cooperation is Higher Than Integrity.
\nMahatma das: Today I heard a wonderful story. A devotee wrote Srila Prabhupada because his disagreed with the tactics devotees were using to raise donations, tactics supported by the Temple President. He expressed his specific concerns in his letter to Srila Prabhupada.
\nIn Srila Prabhupadas reply, he did not address the issue. He did not say he favored one idea over the other. All he said was, I just want you to work well together.
\nSome argue that it is not right to cooperate when we believe that something wrong is being done. Yet Srila Prabhupada makes it clear that more important than who or what is right, is learning to work well together despite our differences. Some will say this is a compromise of ones individual integrity because one is acting against ones core beliefs. It doesnt mean we remain silent or pretend nothing is wrong. What it means is we mature to a level in which we can still work enthusiastically and cooperatively even when we disagree. I would call this a far higher form of integrity than non-cooperation. And what is the use of that integrity that ignores Srila Prabhupadas desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36649,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33468\/revisions\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}