A decent proposal

[Guest guest]

Dear glorious and respected devotees of the Lord,

 

PAMHO. AGTSP. AGT ISKCON.

 

1. I did not tell nor am I telling now we should not assist our GBC in

restructuring the ISKCON management model.

2. There are many other problems reported in various corners/quarters of

ISKCON by individuals and groups (some of which I posted in aprevious text).

We must take a majority vote which is the most priority problem that our

society has to attend to.

3. If the majority of the society members feel that among these problems, the

GBC restructure/reshuffle is the topmost urgent, and highest priority problem

then let it be so, and every member of the society must respect that majority

vote, and so I too will respect that verdict, being a member.

4. Once it is decided that the society members feel that the GBC

restructure/reshuffle is the most immediate problem then we should form a team

of members to resolve this major problem of the society.

 

TEAM SELECTION:

 

The following questions must be answered when the team is chosen for this most

important problem solving.

 

1. The team should comprise of a single digit (less than 10 members) to

brainstorm, failure analysis, and short term and long term corrective

actions, and also make proposals to prevent recurrence of such a problem for

the next 10,000 years atleast. Have potential team members who are capable

of this task been identified?

2. Does each team member have skills that can support the goals of the team?

3. Are the responsibilities of each team member clear?

4. Does the team understand the authority that it does have and does not have?

5. Has a Team recorder been identified, who can follow up with the action

items of each team member.

6. Have the goals and timing of the team been defined?

7. Who will receive the copies of the minutes of the meeting as the project

progresses?

 

When these questions are answered, it will be clear to our society that we

need members in the team, who have proper above qualifications, sober in

dealings with proper Vaishnava etiquette.

 

Also there should be representation from various layers of the society in the

team. There should be atleast

Two current GBC Members, Two past GBC Members, Two Temple Presidents, Two

Congregation Directors, One honourable Life Members, and One professional

Consultant who will act as a moderator, who is totally third party, unbiased

without any mental blocks. Within that we can have mix of 4 varnas and 4

ashramas (if possible), so that they represent each varna and ashrama

properly.

 

The entire society must fall in line with the verdict of this team. That is

we must have faith in this team.

 

Not that every disgruntled member, or every honest and sincere member of this

society starts his own movement, his own conference (On COM or off the COM

somewhere in some part of the world), without any authority and throwing in

all sorts of garbage into the discussion, and enjoying in the sense

gratification comments like “How nicely you hit on his head. Hit first

apologise later”, “You are a rascal”, “Don’t you have any shame?”, “My big

foot in your mouth”, “impotent”, “useless”, “dishonest” blah, blah, blah.

That does not help anyone, except each one of us leading/dragging the other

one into perpetual hell.

 

Also at the end of 6 months or what ever time we realise we have created more

problems.

 

Once again in a society the problem is not you or them, it is us. Otherwise

what is the use of each one of us claiming “I am a member of IKCON, I am a

sincere and honest follower of Srila Prabhupada”.

 

I am not angry or sarcastic.

 

On the auspicious appearance day of Srimati Radharani, I pray that she must

throw her most merciful sidelong glance on all of US.

 

Your humble servant,

Bhadra Govinda Das.