The sannyasis are meant for preaching and the GBC's are meant for managing

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"The sannyāsīs are meant for preaching, and the GBCs are meant for managing"

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

The sannyāsīs are meant for preaching and the GBC's are meant for managing. In this way do it. Now you give me relief—I go on writing books, that's all

Conversations and Morning Walks, June 28, 1971, San Francisco:

So to understand Kṛṣṇa is not easy job, easy job. So one who has understood, "Here is Kṛṣṇa with Rādhārāṇī; let me serve," that position is very exalted position. That is not ordinary position. But one who is unfortunate not to come to that position to understand Kṛṣṇa, for them Kṛṣṇa is giving the prescription you see here. You drink water, the taste, now just think, "Here is Kṛṣṇa." In this way, if you think of Kṛṣṇa in your daily activities, then one day you will be able to understand what is Kṛṣṇa.

Actually, Kṛṣṇa is everything, because whatever . . . this table is also Kṛṣṇa, because it is a manifestation of Kṛṣṇa's energy. Bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ buddhir mano eva ca (BG 7.4). What is the ingredient of this table? Earth, water, air, fire. Kṛṣṇa says, "That is My manifestation of My energy." Just like if the sun god says, "I am everything of this matter," it is a fact, because through the sunshine everything is coming out.

As soon as there is no sunshine, no more trees, no more foliage. Why? It is due to sunshine all these trees are existing. So if I say everything is sunshine, what is the wrong there? Because it is the sun's energy which is maintaining this material world. Similarly, it is Kṛṣṇa's energy that is manifesting everything. So if I say: "This is Kṛṣṇa," this is a fact.

But Kṛṣṇa says: "Although everything is resting in Me, still I am not there." Mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni nāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ (BG 9.4). The Māyāvādī philosopher says that "If Kṛṣṇa is here, then why shall I worship Kṛṣṇa in the temple?" That is his rascaldom. If Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, why He is not in the temple? But they will be minus, make minus this, "Kṛṣṇa is not in the temple. Kṛṣṇa is only somewhere else, that's all." That is the . . . Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am in the temple, not anywhere else, although everything I am."

So these things the foolish rascal people do not understand. Try to make them understand and go on preaching. The sannyāsīs are meant for preaching, and the GBCs are meant for managing. In this way do it. Now you give me relief—I go on writing books, that's all.