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Prabhupada, what about in a case like myself. I'm a sannyasi, and I have a traveling sankirtana party. So can I handle that money?

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

That you decide amongst the GBC. (laughter) Best thing is that don't keep money... Anyway, you don't... You spend the necessary expenditure, and balance money, you give whatever you like.
Conversation with the GBC -- March 27, 1975, Mayapur:

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, what about in a case like myself. I'm a sannyāsī, and I have a traveling saṅkīrtana party. So can I handle that money?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'm a sannyāsī with a travelling preaching party. So I have no... Because I am personally seeing to the money, tbere's no debt on that party. Is that all right?

Prabhupāda: That you decide amongst the GBC. (laughter) Best thing is that don't keep money.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, I have no money in my name.

Prabhupāda: Anyway, you don't... You spend the necessary expenditure, and balance money, you give whatever you like.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, yeah. We're doing... I meant to say...

Atreya Ṛṣi: Śrīla Prabhupāda is...

Prabhupāda: Sannyāsī is collecting and spending.

Atreya Ṛṣi: There you have a function of, more or less of a president, as well as the GBC, in that party.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Atreya Ṛṣi: Which is... In that case, it has to have GBC approval.

Prabhupāda: So...

Jayatīrtha: So we can adjourn for lunch and...

Prabhupāda: Yes, you can... Till next we meet again.

Jayatīrtha: So the rest of these things we can discuss in...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, yes.

Jayatīrtha: ...separate meeting.

Prabhupāda: Yes. You can...

Rūpānuga: Jaya. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. (all offer obeisances)

Prabhupāda: (aside:) Oh, he's not... He did not come.

Paramahaṁsa: No, they went and told him to come and he said, "I'm just now coming." (end)

Page Title:Prabhupada, what about in a case like myself. I'm a sannyasi, and I have a traveling sankirtana party. So can I handle that money?
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Rishab
Created:16 of Jul, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1