{"id":437,"date":"2006-07-15T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2007-02-04T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T09:18:36","slug":"answer-to-dayananda-prabhus-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Answer to Dayananda prabhu&#8217;s Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/familypic3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>My question is in the last sentence. In the last 15 years I\u2019ve spoken with several gurus, sannyasis, and GBCs about the 50% principle for householders. To a man none were interested in lecturing about, or discussing with disciples, the sacrifice of a significant portion of one\u2019s salary. Can you tell me the name of anyone among the GBC or guru community that lectures or advises disciples about giving 50%?<\/p>\n<p>Your servant, Dayananda das<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>Some GBC members have confirmed to me that they do. Others have said that even if the 50% is too much, they strongly encourage grhastha&#8217;s to get into the habit of at least giving something on a monthly basis. Others offered comments such as:<\/p>\n<p>1. Srila Prabhupada always based his instruction to give 50% on the example of Rupa Goswami.<br \/>\n2. Rupa Goswami did not give 50% during his householder life. He gave it when he was renouncing householder life and taking to renounced life.<br \/>\n3. He did not give 50% of his income, but rather 50% of his assets, at the time of leaving family.<br \/>\n4. Srila Prabhupada sometimes used the 50% example related to assets and sometimes related to income<\/p>\n<p>Your servant, Praghosa dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/famil4325ypic.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In the last 15 years I\u2019ve spoken with several gurus, sannyasis, and GBCs about the 50% principle for householders. To a man none were interested in lecturing about, or discussing with disciples, the sacrifice of a significant portion of one\u2019s salary. Can you tell me the name of anyone among the GBC or guru community that lectures or advises disciples about giving 50%?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-gbc","category-praghosa-dasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}