Status Driven Volunteers
I am an ex-BAPS devotee. From my personal experiences with the organization, one societal/environmental aspect that stuck with me til this day was how everyone was so status driven at least at my local center. Everyone was doing "seva" with the intent of gaining external validation from santo/big shot devotees, wanting to get more prestigious sevas, or to get involved in more national/international work. This honestly used to piss me off so much because I've seen people literally limit or cut off people they used to talk to just to be in the vicinity and talk to santo or national level volunteers. Anyone else see/used to see this?
u/Successful-Law-72 — 6 days ago