Sannyasis & gurus should be free from management

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> The current structure is that we have overworked and overstressed gurus

> doing two very difficult back-breaking things at once: Manageing and taking

> on disciples.

 

> "Regarding your questions, the sannyasis are now devoted

> fully to traveling and preaching work, management is left

> to the local temple presidents and the members of the

> Governing Body Commission." (SPL to Upendra, August 4th,

> 1970)

 

> The point here is that because H.H. Tamal Krishna Maharaja was to take

> sannyasa he could not stay on the GBC and so Srila Prabhupada was looking

> for a replacement.

 

> But gradually over the years from around the end of 1972 sannyasis started

> appearing on the GBC. Srila Prabhupada obviously changed his mind perhaps to

> kick-start the preaching faster.

>

> Now here is the big question, as was alluded to by Srirama and Akruranatha

> Prabhus, can the GBC revert back to Srila Prabhupada's original plan of no

> sannyasis (or gurus) on the GBC?

 

> I believe he would have implemented that varnashrama principle again, as he

> did when he first set up the GBC by keeping the sannyasis 'out of

> management'. And the GBC have the attorney to restructure its body in that

> way again today. Surely the emergency is over now. We have so many willing

> and capable new and old devotees to manage and free all the gurus and

> sannyasis to CONCENTRATE FULLY on studying, purity, preaching, and never to

> fall down.

>

> Wouldn't that be really nice?

 

It would be really really nice and it would save the whole Society.

 

Excellent message Ajamila Prabhu. Excellent quotes from Srila Prabhupada. I was

thinking of posting these from a long time. You have hit the nail on the head.

 

Vaisnava dasabhas

Nayana-ranjana das