The temple worship means there will be regulative principles, that you will have to rise early in the morning, you have to attend class, kirtana… These things, as soon as you give up all these things — zero. Then it will be like karmis, as they are, hard labor, collecting money and enjoying senses. That’s
all.
So that is the pitfall everywhere. In the church, temple, as soon as they get some nice income, then in the name of “priest,” “sadhu,” “sannyasi,” they do the same thing. Therefore Gosvamis, they left everything. That is the danger of visaya, visaya touch. Visaya chadiya se rase majiya. As soon as we give up this sravanam-kirtanam, then it becomes visaya. Visaya means materialism. There is no spiritualism.
If you are careful, you cleanse very nicely. If you are not careful, immediately blood. Immediately. To live in the temple, at least one is forced to rise early in the morning, take bath, to have darsana. They’ll get regulated life. Therefore this temple worship is needed, because we are so impure. So at least, in temple, by following the regulative principles, we can keep ourself pure. Otherwise, simply chanting is sufficient. There is no need of constructing big, big temple. But we are so impure… That is Jiva Gosvami’s recommendation, that as soon as we give up this temple worship method, regulative principle, then we become, in the dress of so-called, we become victim of maya. Vesopajivaka. They are working and doing some business, and then our dress will be a means of business. This will be also another material business.
If there is no such program, Deity worship, regulative principle, then it will be a joint mess. Hotel. Transcendental hotel. And transcendental fraud. This will go on. The business will be transcendental fraud, and life will be transcendental hotel.
Srila Prabhupada; Room Conversation – September 19, 1973, Bombay