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Thank you very much everybody who is sharing here.
Phanisvara prabhu, of course I know about Kaunteya prabhus valuable efforts and achievements in congregational preaching and development and always appreciated and supported that. However having in mind our local situation here I was missing very much in this particular article the opinion of congregational members who may not be willing any more to give donations due to negative experiences. As to your question: Who is starting first - the temple management or congregational members ? I think it is up to everybody of us to accept more responsibility for ones own life and to have a clear vision of how we want to leave our body one time. Having a cancer experience behind me, certainly I do not want to be surrounded by devotees at the end of my life who are not trained in devotee care and know that it is up to me to act accordingly. I am not waiting for the leadership to make things happening in my life.

Kaunteya prabhu, it is not about having grudges towards any temple. But it is about having trust and faith that they will really be there for me at the end of my life when I may be leaving my body as a full invalide and cannot help myself any longer. Will they have "TIME" to care for me or will they send me back to the family of my parents who are pure materialists ? This is the dicisive question for me.
Knowing what kind of disaster may come to me at the end of my life, I want to use any money that Krsna gives to me as a preparation for my death. This means that I invest it into helping creating support systems for devotees in our local yatra since most likely local devotees will be with me at the time of my death, not foreign ones.
So, it is up to everybody of us to accept full responsibility for ones own life and not to wait for the leadership to get things done properly.

Your servant, Vaisnavi Rani d.d.