Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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Krishna Kirtan Mataji wrote:

 

> According to my humble understanding of his previous answers to me, he

> considers himself the TP in his temple, but he thinks his duty is simply

> to "empower", as he says, somebody else to do what I consider the main

> TP's duties. Is that fair? Is that an honest proposal? Can somebody kindly

> reply to his statement above?

 

I am certainly not qualified to give a proper answer to your questions, but

I will try to share some thoughts:

 

There are many possible arrangements for managing. If a temple president

wants to delegate most of his managerial duties to someone else there is

certainly no harm in that. I would not be the one to stand up and say he

shouldn't be the temple president, but that he should appoint someone else.

If he is able to spend his time in studying, teaching, writing, and

preaching while the temple is being well-managed by others, then who will

argue with success? There is one important consideration, though: Does he

consider himself ultimately responsible? If the appointed managers make a

mess of things, will he hold himself accountable? If they quit, will he take

up the tasks himself? Will he intervene in an emergency and overrule the

managers' decisions? Does he keep himself informed of the basic position so

that he can detect problems early and act to forestall them? If in general

he would answer these questions in the negative then I would say he is being

irresponsible and he should resign in the interest of protecting the

temple's dependents and congregation. If in general he would answer in the

positive then I would say he is doing a great job, but the next question

would certainly be how we would classify his activities. Since he is

actually managing then I would say he is doing ksatriya karma. Studying,

teaching, writing, and preaching are not the sole domain of brahmanas.

 

Just my humble opinion.

 

Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das