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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1969]]
[[Category:Questions On... ISKCON - Leadership and Management]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. Managing, you, why don't you make this Giriraja as the temple manager?... Temple management should not be done directly by you.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Discussion with BTG Staff -- December 24, 1969, Boston|Discussion with BTG Staff -- December 24, 1969, Boston]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Satsvarūpa: Prabhupāda, I have a question and it applies only to me, but it's important. A year ago you wrote me in a letter when I was..., said the editing was going slow, to pay more attention to managing the temple. So...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Managing, you, why don't you make this Giriraja as the temple manager?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: But still... I've already done that. I've made him, but practically I'm still managing anyway. And I made Murāri manager, but still I'm... I don't spend much time in editing. People are always coming, and I'm running all over the place. I don't edit at all. It makes me sad. I don't...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. They must give relief to you. You can give them instruction, but the actual execution should be done... Pradyumna is there. He can also do. But anyone who is expert in management, he should be... Temple management should not be done directly by you. You can give him policy that "You do like this." That's all. Because you have got so many other things to do. Yes. So you create. If there is no expert manager, you create some manager. That is most important thing, to create. To become... (laughs) In our college there was one Mr. Kidd, professor of economics. He was always chastising us. We were student; he was our professor. "Oh, you cannot have independence. You cannot manage it. You cannot manage. You can work just like ass, but if some asses are given under you, you cannot work." He was talking like that. "So don't cry for independence. You are not yet nation." He was talking like that. So actually his experience was nice, that since the Britishers have gone away, the management of Indian government is not nice. They cannot manage. So he was experienced. He told. I sometimes remember that Professor Kidd told me like that. (laughs) So we have to create nice administrator. That is another function, you see? Every department, we shall create assistant, assistant. So that in case he is ill or he is sick, he cannot work, somebody must work for him.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: That is how we can expand also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Some assistant always must be there, training of assistant. So far your editorial is concerned, you can train. Now Puruṣottama, he can also assist you. Similarly, Gaurasundara can assist you.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Jayadvaita is already...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah, Jayadvaita. So in this way you should create assistant editors also.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Then the process thus far we have, someone types off the dictaphone. Now, thus far you've been doing this?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Thus far Satsvarūpa...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That dictaphone can be done in Detroit. That boy Bhagavān dāsa is here. He has offered service.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: There's one thing... It seems to be easy, but it's very difficult to hear your voice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That will require practice. He may commit some mistake in the beginning, but when he is practiced, he will do the right thing. So that you cannot avoid. You cannot change my voice.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: No. But I can hear it. I can understand it.</p>
<p>Kīrtanānanda: Yes, but you can't go on forever, doing typing.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: We've learned, so someone else can.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: So just now you've sent a Kṛṣṇa tape. Should I, rather than do that, give it to Bhagavān?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. First of all test him, who will do that. Test him here, whether he can understand. (break?)</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: A tape recording of dictaphone.</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Yes. And you check the copies.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: And you can check the copies after. Why don't you do that? Make a tape recording, and then, when the manuscript comes back, you can check it off the tape recorder. I've done that before.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: I also have a dictaphone in New York, Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is mine.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: No. I have another one also. I also can have tapes typed.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that can be distributed, tapes. Yes. In different centers they will have dictaphone and they'll do it.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: And then send me the copy to edit.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: I have a dictaphone also, so they can also be sent to Śyāma dāsī.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Yeah.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: But before you send them, make a tape, make a recording of them so you can check them over if you want to check them over. 'Cause I don't have time to do that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So taping, recording, that does not take much time.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: No. Somebody can do that for you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can keep it and record. Yes. So manage in that way. We have to train so many things. So tactfully you have to do that.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Then he does the first editing. After it's typed up off the dictaphone, Satsvarūpa does the first editing. Then I go over what he has gone over and check the manuscript...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. What you do, he goes. And what he does, you go. Then final. In this way. But the last editing should be checked twice. The dictaphone, then checked by him and then by you. Or checked by you and then by him. That's all.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Yes. And Pradyumna does the Sanskrit after.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That's all. That is printing department.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: And then Jayadvaita does the composing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Jayadvaita and others.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Pālikā and Arundhati.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, I heard that you are composing fifty pages daily, altogether?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: No, not fifty pages. The manuscript pages, yesterday we composed about forty manuscript pages.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Correct, all? Complete?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Yes. The original... It's done twice. So those first pages, the first time, they'd already been done.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. These forty pages, they are complete?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Yes. They are complete.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's nice. That is encouraging. So even if you complete thirty pages daily, that will be very nice.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: They'll get faster because Śyāma dāsī and Arundhati were just typing fourteen hours a day in Columbus and they were getting at least twenty manuscript pages done, and now it's...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Anyway, you are the in-charge of this composition. You or Jaya-govinda? Who is in charge of the composition?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Mostly I am doing it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Accha. Then you get easily not less than thirty pages daily, complete. That will satisfy. Is that all right?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: That's all right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Then our books are, biggest book, four hundred pages. So thirty pages daily means, what is that? Within fifteen days you can complete.</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Thirty manuscript pages, thirty book pages?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thirty book pages. No. Or what is the manuscript pages? I do not understand.</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: When it's typed out, we've been doing about...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I want complete for being photographed.</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: When you say a page, do you mean a page...</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: He means the typed copies. I've been doing forty of those...</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: How many manuscript pages?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: That's what I mean. Forty of those pages. Forty pages like that. So Nectar of Devotion is about 580...</p>
<p>Pradyumna: Forty of these.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. All right. These are forty pages. Such, say, in fifteen days how many pages?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: 450.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you take up twenty days, one month for one book?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: I cannot edit much faster than forty pages a day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Don't do it, I mean to say, so hastily. But do it slowly and surely. That will be nice. Yes.</p>
<p>Brahmānanda: One book, one month.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that you are printing, that "one book, one month" for the last six months. (laughs) That is in theory only. Actually it has not happened. Now do everything solidly so that at least in two months we finish one book. That's all. Is that all right?</p>
<p>Jayadvaita: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You say everything all right. (laughter) Anyway...</p>
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