What does it mean to be a powerful institution?Is it being domineering and compelling?
Or to enlist the support of powerful local bigwigs and gather crowds?
These don't seem to me, to be, indications of abiding power.
I deem only love to be a powerful organizing entity.
What you give as money to the monastery, gets frittered away in organisational nitty-gritties.
What you volunteer, for the common good, stays and sustains.
For you to nurture this monastic institution, is only so, that the monastery can nourish you.
The monastic institution is only meant for you.
To live in harmony, seeing all life, as progeny of the Divine.
To live together in this abiding solidarity and love.
To facilitate and further this cause, is reason, why this monastic institution exists.
-Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi,
Commenting on 'Ekadasi Purana Volunteering'.
