Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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> Dear Prabhus,

>

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

> his pure followers! Here is a questions for you all:

>

> Krsna-dharma Prabhu wrote:

> "I am a TP, but see my main duty as training and caring for devotees.

> Managing is secondary, and I aim to empower others to take on all my

> administrative tasks anyway, so that I am free to study, teach and

> preach."

>

> So I am humbly asking:

> Is there a devotee in this conference who would volunteer to show this

> prabhu that what he is describing here is that he wants to act only as a

> brahmin in his temple, and not at all as a Temple President according to

> the main duties of this post?

>

> He says here that he wants to "empower" somebody else to do his

> administrative and managing work to be "free to study, teach and preach".

> Is that the dharma of a Temple president? Can somebody correct him on the

> basis of Srila Prabhupada's instructions in his books, letters and

> conversations?

 

I also felt alarmed when I read that statement but I didn't respond because

I was too busy and also because I knew if I did Kd would say that I 'don't

understand him and that I have 'not listened to him'. But hey, when you put

something in black and white you have to answer to it directly.

 

> So, I am humbly asking for a volunteer like Vaiyasaki Prabhu for instance,

> or Bhaktarupa Prabhu if he kindly agrees to do so, or Sri Rama Prabhu,

> etc. to explain to Krsna-dharma Prabhu in his own terms, that teaching,

> studying and preaching are not the main duties of a Temple President.

 

This is exactly the point that if one is TP one must MANAGE the spiritual

and material affairs of the temple first. There are so many instructions to

that effect.

 

> 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?

>

> Thank you in advance to all the patient devotees who will agree to clarify

> this issue on this unmoderated conference.

>

> Your servant, Krsna-kirtana dasi.

 

ys

 

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