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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972]]
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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="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">But, he is not going to travel, Bali-mardana?... First point is the GBC member must be extensively traveling.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with the GBC -- May 25, 1972, Los Angeles|Conversation with the GBC -- May 25, 1972, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: It's really a difficult problem.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah, no problem. GBC means now they should tour very extensive. That is the first principle, the GBC. Not sit down (in) one place and pass resolution. No, they must be active. They must act like me. As I am old man, I am traveling all over the world. Now to give me relief, the GBC members... I shall expand into twelve more so that they can exactly work like me. Gradually they will be initiators. At least first initiation. You must make advance. That is my motive. So, in that way I want to divide it in twelve zones. And we have to make more propaganda throughout the whole world. Now if you think that the world is so big, twelve members are insufficient, then you can increase more than that and make the zone similarly divided. It is world affair after all.</p>
<p>Devotee: Srila Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Devotee: The reason why we have thirteen here is because Bali-mardana, he is actually at the Press, he doesn't actually have a zone at this time.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Devotee: So Madhudviṣa is taking my zone.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Devotee: So only keep thirteen GBC at this point? Will Bali-mardana stay at the Press and be considered GBC?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But, he is not going to travel, Bali-mardana?</p>
<p>Devotee: No.</p>
<p>Devotee: Unless he can find a substitute to manage the Press. (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: First point is the GBC member must be extensively traveling.</p>
<p>Devotee: What about my position, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, everyone's position will be considered. This is the first thing, extensively traveling.</p>
<p>Devotee: So, the positions of Bali-mardana and Karandhara, they have to remain stationary so much. We have to consider that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, stationary one thing is that the Bali-mardana, especially Karandhara, he has got already extensive field locally.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He has to manage so many things. So extensively touring means for the mission expanding, that is the point. Simply touring is not required, but doing something substantial to increase the interest of the society. That is the point. So, Karandhara has got many department supervisors(?), so he can be given to work, and sometimes go away (indistinct). So, his position is like that. And similarly Bali-mardana's position is there. He can be also if he has got many engagements, many departments managed there. So he may not tour but our only aim is that one must take multi-responsibilities.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Why not Bali-mardana tour sometimes to check on the foreign literatures, French, German, see how they are going on and inspect the foreign literature field.</p>
<p>Devotee: (indistinct) planning to take speaking engagements in the colleges.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Devotees: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we shall increase. You can increase the number. So according to vacant position, how many, it may be fifteen?</p>
<p>Devotee: Thirteen.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why not fifteen, make fifteen?</p>
<p>Devotee: We are thinking of (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Devotee: We are thinking of (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Or anyone, you can do. Then you have to reorganize the zones, fifteen zones.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: This is much better if we're actually expanding.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, we must expand, we must expand. Now the framework of expansion is done by me, but this, they should be solidified. Just like your skyscraper building. The framework is done then they are made nicely air-conditioned and covered by glass (indistinct). It makes a nice house. Similarly, so far the framework is done. I have done with your help. Now we have to push this movement. It is very important movement. It is not a farce. It is actually for the benefit of the human society. They are kept in darkness about God. And we are delivering God, "Here is God." So that must be pushed. What is your opinion?</p>
<p>Devotee: Jaya!</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are kept in darkness about God. Somebody is speaking, saying "God is dead." Some is (saying), "God is impersonal. There is not God. I am God, you are God," all this nonsense. Here is God. We have to push this. What do you think, Hayagrīva Prabhu? So, Hayagrīva Prabhu is taking charge of pushing this movement by help in editorial work. So that is most important because we are distributing books. Our writing will be gospel.</p>
<p>Devotee: (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have to edit in such a way, present our literature in such a way that it will be gospel truth.</p>
<p>Devotee: Oh!</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Authorized. That people will refer to our books. So we have to very cautiously print our literatures. It is not ordinary literature, fiction, or something, story. Just like Bhagavad-gītā and Bhāgavata. They are not ordinary. literature. Without any four defects of human frailties. Bhrama, pramāda, vipralipsa, also... We are following those literatures. So our writing should be so authorized that in future one may not find any fault, contradiction. We shall have to, cautiously. The ideas are given there now... In future of course, it requires that we shall increase (indistinct). But for the present, we have to push on this movement with positive, I mean to say, conviction, that here is God. God is neither dead, nor every one of you is God, nor is He imperson. God is a person and we give you His name, address, father's name, activities. Here is God. So, we have to (indistinct). So if you have got any doubt about it, then you cannot do it. If you have got any doubt that whether Kṛṣṇa is positive God or (indistinct) then you cannot do it. That is the first qualification. If you are yourself not convinced, how you can convince others? This is our propaganda. This is our mission. (indistinct). Whether you are all convinced on this point? That here is positive God. What is your opinion? So far I am concerned, I have no opinion, convinced. (laughter). Therefore, I am pushing on. It is a fact. I am pushing on because I am pushing on fact, not fiction. That much I am personally convinced. Whenever there is somebody says, "You believe". "No, I don't believe, it is fact." Any press reporter, that press reporter.</p>
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