Ask the Accountant, Bhakta Matty
BY: MAHAVIDYA DAS (ACBSP)
Dec 05, 2011 — UK (SUN) —
I have read Bhakta Matty's latest offering.
Sadly...
As of yet, Bhakta Matty has yet to respond to my own simple question...
"Are those devotees receiving salaries at Bhaktivedanta Manor working within the parameters as established by HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada?"
Bhakta Matty has trouble answering this as...
"he has a whole herd of cows to milk."
mmmmmm.
How very convenient, or inconvenient for Bhakta Matty.
While Bhakta Matty has time to formulate his own questions...
Obviously, he has some difficulty answering this one question.
Bhakta Matty could have his own questions answered very easily.
It would mean having to walk the distance of 50 metres from the Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple room to the Accountant's office.
If Bhakta Matty wishes...
he is more than welcome to ask the Temple Accountant, Rukmini Ramana prabhu, for a full financial disclosure of whatever the Manor spent on myself and my family.
Bhakta Matty may at the same time ask the question that I have put to Bhakta Matty:
"Are those devotees receiving salaries at Bhaktivedanta Manor working within the parameters as established by Srila Prabhupada?"
Personally…
I could not tell Bhakta Matty how much myself and wife received in pounds shillings or pence
because practically, or literally…
we never saw a single piece of hard coin, pound, shilling or pence from the Manor.
Our overheads were met by the Temple management,
were it 10 pence or otherwise.
My own clothes came from donations left in the laundry room.
As I have already said…
my wife and I lived within the parameters as outlined by Srila Prabhupada.
If Bhakta Matty does not agree...
then he may ask some of those other devotees present at that time.
He could ask the then Temple President, Akhundadhi das, what was the financial arrangement.
Bhakta Matty is free to ask whomever he likes.
So, Bhakta Matty,
I ask you this question yet again...
Are those devotees receiving salaries at Bhaktivedanta Manor working within the parameters as established by Srila Prabhupada?
A simple yes or no would suffice.
And...
How do you know?
