GBC Reform & Restructure Conference

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> Ajamila Prabhu wrote:

>

> > Srirama Prabhu is setting up an open conference entitled 'GBC Reform &

> > Restructure' in which a GBC restructure proposal will be formulated and

> > forwarded to the GBC.

> >

> > Anyone is welcome to join and participate in that conference. The mood

> > thus far is respectful and constructive. I hope to see you there. Hare

> > Krishna.

>

> I have the following questions regarding this conference:

>

> (1) Have the GBC's agreed to even consider this proposal what to speak of

> implementing it?

 

After we submit the restructure proposal we'll find out. Implementation? We

are hoping and praying.

 

> (2) Have some GBC's agreed to the setting up of this conference? Or are

> any of them backing this conference?

 

To my knowledge none have objected, some are interested. The rest I don't

know. It is still early days.

 

> (3) Will there be any participation of the GBC's themselves in this

> conference? If they do not participate in this conference now, then

> afterwards when the proposal is formulated and presented to the GBC, then

> they may raise several objections to the proposal and reject it.

 

It is open to all. Let's see what happens.

 

> (4) Before spending time to give a proposal it will good to know how much

> the GBC's are going to accept from this proposal? Whether the GBC's are

> ready to accept things like no sannyasis or no gurus on the GBC? Whether

> any of them are willing to step down if the proposal proposes like that?

 

It is better that we make the proposal first so that they can then decide.

How they respond is up to them.

 

> (5) Also it will good to know what is the framework in which the

> conference is going to operate.

> Is the conference open to the fact that for restructuring many of the

> present GBC's may have to step down?

 

You'll see from the research posted in the conference and linked website

that Srila Prabhupada's initial GBC structure for the first few years was

one of no sannyasis, only grihastha managers.

 

> (6) The Rochford Report doesn't seem to have been taken seriously at all

> about the loss of trust in the leadership by the general mass of ISKCON

> devotees. How can we expect then that a proposal of this kind will be

> taken seriously by the GBC? Why should we spend lot's & lot's of our time

> & energy for a proposal which may have a fate more worse than or similar

> to the Rochford report?

 

If the GBC ignore the restructure proposal and things continue getting

worse, then we can rest assured that we told them so. We did our duty, we

did it respectfully and peacefully. We can't and intend not to force this

issue like maddened ritviks, but rather intelligently disscuss a structural

change for the betterment of ISKCON.

 

I and many others strongly believe that the casue of nearly all our problems

over the last two decades has arisen from the faulty GBC structure. So many

good gurus have fallen because they were trying to manage and be guru

simultaneously.

 

In this respect a management example we can follow is that of the

Swaminarayana's here in London where they have built a magnificent temple

that is admired by Prince Charles and many other prestigious people

worldwide. The managment is done EXCLUSIVELY by the grihasthas. Their sadhus

including Pramukh Swami never get involved in any management at all. And one

time I asked them about their falldown rate and was informed that it is

almost nil. OK their philosophy is another thing but managerially they are

expert. In ISKCON we nearly always hear constant complaints about the GBC

management. Something has to change, and many now believe it is the

structure of the GBC that has to be changed.

 

It is time we reverted back to Srila Prabhupada's original non sannyasi

structure, the same varnashrama structure that the Swaminarayana group are

currently implementing so successfully.

 

> Vaisnava dasabhas

> Nayana-ranjana das

 

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