What are required qualifications needed to voice a personal view?

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> > > What qualifications are required when one cares enough to voice a

> > > personal

> point of view?

>

> Trivikrama Swami wrote:

> >Everyone can voice an opinion, As the saying goes "advise is cheap".

> >However

> my experience was that Srila Prabhupada didn't much care for such opinions

> unless we could show that our ideas would make a practical improvement,

> which most often entailed our willingness to personally get involved to

> enact that improvement.

>

> I would like to suggest the contrary. ADVICE in the business world or

> otherwise -- management, investing, or professional "consulting" -- more

> often than not bears a heavy price. Lawyers, doctors, psychologists, etc.

> are NOT cheap. Even the the sleaziest "900" numbers will cost you at

> least $3.99/minute (that's almost $240/hr). "Talk" can be very expensive

> indeed.

>

> It also works conversely: If you don't LISTEN to something important a

> person has to say, you can LOSE big time -- a close friend, a marriage

> partner, a big business deal, an employee, an audience or following, or a

> whole movement (hint, hint). Sometimes the most valuable advice we can

> get is FREE, but we become FOOLS by not listening to it.

>

> Someone has a pertinent quote or comment to add here?

>

>

> >If you are interested I could relate a couple of Srila Prabhupada

> >pastimes to

> illustrate this point.

>

> You can try to make a dogma of your particular perception of Prabhupada's

> style of management as a charismatic (and self-realized) leader, but for

> our part, we should adopt SOLID principles of management and group

> dynamics. I am speaking PRACTICALLY now. If anyone presumes to be a LEADER

> over others (socially, organizationally, spiritually) but doesn't take

> into account what their subordinates are feeling and isn't keenly

> interested in LISTENING to them and getting their feedback and input, such

> a "leader" is in name only.

>

> In such a case, the subordinates should raise their voices to such a

> hue-and-cry so as to correct or depose the person, as appropriate. A

> leader who doesn't LISTEN to his subordinates is INCOMPETENT and deserves

> to be removed from his post, or at least subordinated to someone who can

> listen to the needs and desires of those he is supposed to be in charge

> of.

>

> If we are in a situation where the leader is repeatedly bungling and we

> don't speak up, then "silence is the voice of complicity." In the name of

> being "cooperative" we also become part of the problem.

>

> If there is some genuine issue requiring attention, then let the voices of

> protest be heard! Let them be raised to an inextinguishable pitch until

> the issues are resolved!!!

>

> Since you want to talk "practically", we will accept no other DOGMAS

> before this basic DYNAMIC of social organization. If someone wants to

> lead, fine. But if they don't LISTEN to genuine complaints or problems,

> they are not qualified to be in such a position over others. INCOMPETENT

> leaders should be removed, and the sooner the better. Canakya says better

> to have no leader at all than be ruled by a TYRANT.

>

> Study ANY book on organizational psychology or management and you will

> find these are basic truths. "Lead, follow or get out of the way." This

> is our philosophy. We don't "blindly" follow anyone. We follow Krsna or

> His BONAFIDE (genuine) representative, not demagogues.

>

> The question is, Maharaja, where do you stand on these points?

>

> Cooperatively,

>

> Srila dasa

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Srila Prabhu is informing us how he is speaking "PRACTICALLY" now. How

practical is it to discourage those who have taken the thankless task of

trying to assist Srila Prabhupada in pushing on his movement, with your

"valuable" unsolicited advise. The following letter that I just received

from Mahaman speaks for itself.

Ys TS

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Dear Trivikrama Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for your kind and encouraging report on the issue. We are trying

sincerely to please Srila Prabhupada, and your sympathy helped us maintain

our morale which was otherwise being devastated by some of the

correspondance on this issue.

 

Thanking you.

Your servant

Mahaman Das