Ātreya Ṛṣi: Let me just make sure this is understood. Any..., any debts that any temple has, is going to make, has to be approved by the GBC representative.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: When you say debt, do you mean a loan?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Loan.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Ah.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: But...
Prabhupāda: Loan is also debt.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. But if they are buying BBT books, if... On the books it may seem debt, but in fact he should know that he's going to pay for it in the very near fu... That you do not consider need approval, do you, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Jayatīrtha: The books are sold on consignment.
Prabhupāda: No, and that is all right. That is all right.
Jayatīrtha: If they fall behind, then it becomes a debt.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's different. Thirty days pay...
Atreya Ṛṣi: In other words, as long as he meets the terms, it's not a debt. It's not a loan.
Prabhupāda: That's it.
Atreya Ṛṣi: As soon as it goes over the term, it's unapproved.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then a loan where you're paying on time, is that considered a debt?
Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes. That's a loan. That has to be approved. That has to be, as much as possible, avoided. In other words, everything you're doing, more or less, on cash basis.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Atreya Ṛṣi: You don't depend on tomorrow.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Jayatīrtha: Otherwise, sometimes a president may leave, leaving so many debts, so many loans, so many this, so many that.
Atreya Ṛṣi: This is our standard of management. Listen. If the temple president doesn't understand it, teach him.
Jayatīrtha: That's right.
Prabhupāda: That's right. So all these things you write. Otherwise you forget.
Jayatīrtha: Yeah, that, we'll... The next point is to insure that the proper criterion for recommending candidates for initiation be followed...
Prabhupāda: That is being done.
Jayatīrtha: ...and to insure that the...
Prabhupāda: The president recommends, or the GBC recommends.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society to get first, hari-nāma, initiated? Because I...
Prabhupāda: That we have already fixed, six months to one year.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Six months to one year. And for brāhmaṇa initiation?
Rūpānuga: One year, you said, after that.
Prabhupāda: No, within one year. That's all. If one, within one year, one does not become to the standard, then he's unfit.