Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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>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."

 

This sounds OK to me. The best managers strive to manage themselves out of

the job. Srila Prabhupada said that this is the best manager -- that things

can go on almost automatically. Prabhupada referred to lazy intelligence,

utilizing one's intelligence to get others to do the job.

 

 

"There are four classes of men: lazy intelligent, busy intelligent, lazy

fool and busy fool. (laughter) So first-class man is lazy intelligent. Just

like you’ll see the high court judges. They’re very lazy and most

intelligent. That is first-class man. They are doing everything very

soberly. And the next class: busy intelligent."

 

 

Prabhupada: Busy intelligent means at least whatever he is doing, there is

some meaning, busy intelligent. And lazy intelligent means he is doing

higher things. Lazy intelligent means brahmana, and busy intelligent means

ksatriya. So the catur-varnyam maya srstam.

 

 

"So this is essential, that the society should be divided into four classes

of men: the first-class men—lazy intelligent; second-class men—busy

intelligent; and third-class men—lazy fool; and fourth-class men—busy fool.

 

 

Here Prabhupada indicates how the varnas work according to their

intelligence! But in daivi varnasrama all the varnas are devotees and they

can do the work of any varna, so no one is fool.

 

If the mangement can go on under an assistant, a designated manager, and the

TP is freed to do more teaching and training, then that is first class --

lazy intelligent. Where is the fault? Of course, it is important to note

that if things do go awry, the buck still stops at the door of the TP.

 

I am concerned that the varnasrama dharmavadis become too rigid and stifle

the natural inclination of the soul. This is not the aim of varnasrama.

Rather, its aim is to enhance the soul's progressive advancement to krsna

prema.

 

yours in service, vaiyasaki dasa...