Proper management
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Nitāi: What should the kṣatriyas be taught?
Prabhupāda: Kṣatriyas should be taught that he is manager. He must see that everyone is engaged. And if there is any fight, they must come forward to fight. This is kṣatriya's business. There may be fight. Somebody may attack us. Not that chanting, "Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa..." No. They must come forward. "Yes, we are prepared to fight." That is kṣatriya.
Tamāla-Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Eh.
Tamāla-Kṛṣṇa: In our centers we are awarding brāhmaṇa initiation, second initiation...
Prabhupāda: No, no. Initiation should go on. Even... You do not understand what I have said, that that is for Vaiṣṇava. A Vaiṣṇava and Viṣṇu... Just like Kṛṣṇa is Viṣṇu, He's not human being, but He was acting like human being, similarly, Vaiṣṇava is transcendental. But for proper management of the material world, one should be acting like brāhmaṇa, one should be acting like kṣatriya. That is required.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Govindajī's temple is taken over by the government, so I talked to, I wrote a letter...
Prabhupāda: Government, they cannot manage.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are not managing properly.
Prabhupāda: They cannot. As soon as anything goes to state especially in India, goes to the government track(?), it is spoiled. Government means all thieves and rogues. How they'll manage? They'll simply swallow whatever they get. Government means... They cannot manage, they are not devotees. It should be in the hands of the devotees. So (indistinct), the paid man, they want some money, that's all. How they can manage temple? It is impossible.1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So the guiding principle should be that under no circumstance should anyone become lost.
Prabhupāda: Then what is the preaching? Alexander the Great? He was conquering, and as soon he went to conquer another place, the last place lost.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What happened?
Prabhupāda: Suppose I have conquered Bombay. Then I go to Karachi. In the meantime, Bombay is lost. That was being done, Alexander the Great. Means no proper management. Just like British Empire lost. They could not manage. So long they were managing well, it was going on.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Too much expansion with not enough good management.
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Similarly, we should not expand too quickly...
Prabhupāda: No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...unless we have the proper management.
Prabhupāda: I am stressing, therefore, book selling.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hm.
Prabhupāda: Not opening temples.Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
1969 Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
1971 Correspondence
1974 Correspondence
1975 Correspondence
Page Title: | Proper management |
Compiler: | Rati, Labangalatika |
Created: | 09 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=4, Let=7 |
No. of Quotes: | 14 |