Please note; this line of reasonning is of course flawed, quite biassed to show the good aspects of computor preaching programs, but I think it is an eye-opener anyway ?
SPI total expenditures to date, approximately $1200. new devotees/brahmanas, eight. Period of time, three years. $150 per devotee/3 is $50. per yr per devotee made.
infrastructure; nil, no risk
Bangla luru et al temples, total expenditures to date, maybe 80. million dollars. new devotees/brahmanas, approximately 8000. including non initiated congregation. Period of time, 20 years. 80,000.$ per devotee made, divided by 20 is $4,000. per yr. per devotee made.
infrastructure; massive; who will inherit it ?? currently risky
IRM; $750,000. over 30 years and making 0 devotees is $25,000. per year with zero devotees made. The IRM agenda is questionable, therefore, and their preaching is wasting much money and energy.
infrastructure; minimal, and no devotees, nothing permanent, therefore next to useless.
Do the math. We are so much ahead of both of them in terms of both efficiency and results, there is no comparison. Therefore our model should be adopted widely.
Tamohara dasa vanaprastha, acbssp, MSc.
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