1. My God does not accept bribes

    Sridhara Swami remembers:

    There is a very famous temple in Tirupati, the Balaji temple. And everybody knows that if you have some work to be done, you can go there and offer a donation to Balaji and you get some result. So Mr. Mohatta, one of the League of Devotees members who donated to Prabhupada in Bombay, told us that in 1925 Tirupati Balaji was just a small temple, not very important, and not many people knew about it. But the pujaris started spreading the rumors that if you give to Balaji you will get double back. So within a few years people used to go there, and fifty percent of the people would get what they were asking for; they probably would have got it anyway. But still they got it, and they began to tell others about it. And fifty percent who didn’t get it went away quietly, you know, nice temple and that’s all. So in that way the opulence of the temple grew and grew and grew, until today. They have one crown, among many dresses and crowns, that they put on Balaji, which is worth about seven million dollars.

    So Mr. Mohatta was telling Prabhupada that we should start spreading rumors about Radha-Rasabihari, and Prabhupada said, “My God does not accept bribes.”

    Adbhuta Hari Dasa, The Jolly Swami, p. 1208-1209