Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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This response by Janesvara Prabhu to Krishna Kirtan's question about Krishna

Dharma Prabhu's way of operating as a Temple President in my opinion

explains KD's position adequately and authoritatively.

 

> A temple president's job is to see that everyone is engaged; engaged

> according to varnasrama-dharma. Especially in ISKCON, this task would

> certainly be a full time job if ISKCON had followed Srila Prabhupada's

> orders over 26 years ago to start varnasrama in EVERY center, for EVERY

> devotee, EVERYDAY.

>

> It has also always been a big illusion amongst many so-called leaders of

> ISKCON that they are somehow above everyone else in their service if they

> are studying, teaching, writing, and preaching or distributing books. Then

> they think they can call themselves anything and everything will be OK.

> This is NOT management and the results of such mentality can be widely

> observed in ISKCON. I love to read Srila Prabhupada's books and have read

> them all but I know that performing my varnasrama duties are for the same

> purpose and will give me the same result, if done in the right mentality.

> Many also read or "preach" and have the wrong mentality and not gain any

> benefit.

>

> A temple president, or more specifically, a leader of a community of

> bhaktas and other human beings and cows, etc., should be of the ksatriya

> nature, obviously. MOST of his time will be spent practicing, training and

> performing ksatriya activities and lifestyles. If he ever thinks that this

> work is lower than reading, preaching, distributing books, etc., he has

> not understood daiva varnasrama-dharma nor Srila Prabhupada's teachings:

>

> Srila Prabhupada: Some of you are preaching and some of you are cleansing

> the temple. That does not mean that a sannyasi who is preaching, he is

> better than that man who is cleansing. The position of Vaisnava is the

> same. But for management one is cleansing, one is seeing to the

> construction, one is going to preach, like that."