Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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> Srila Bhaktisiddhanta on management:

>

> Many sannyasis and leading devotees of the Gaudiya Math told Sarasvati

> Thakura to make a will for the management and organization of the Gaudiya

> Math after his departure. Sarasvati Thakura didn't like that, saying, "If

> money is kept within the Mission we will become mahanta (a term referring

> to the proprietor of a temple in Bengal or Vrndavan). By managing the

> temple they live very comfortably. They manage the funds of the temple and

> live very comfortably. So Sarasvati Thakura said, "I don't want to make

> any agreement or document. When there is life in the mission it will run

> on. I am not a contractor or a mason. I have not established these temples

> in the manner of a contractor or a mason. If life is there, with or

> without any document or will, everything will go on. But if there's no

> life, with or without a document, then things will not go on in a

> spiritual way. Without the living source, without life, the mission has no

> meaning. It will be a bad mission. Rupa raghunatha vani pracar - this is

> what we want. I am the priya of Rupa Raghunatha. I am not the priya of

> some contractor. I build these temples out of love of Rupa Raghunatha, not

> for increasing some contractor's business. I have not come to build so

> many temples for the world's sake but for God's sake."

>

> From BIKC by Bhakti Vikasa Swami

>

> From these statements by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, it looks like we

> should keep our GBC Restructural Proposal extremely simple. Just establish

> Varnasrama on the GBC by relieving the gurus & sannyasis and putting

> highly qualified, advanced & experienced grhastas and that should do it.

> Since the advanced grhasta devotees on the GBC can take up the role of a

> brahmana as well as a ksatriya, lets not fuss too much about whether the

> GBCs should have brahminical or ksatriya tendencies. I think in the case

> of GBC Restructure, specialization (which is the basis of

> varnasrama-dharma) is more important then anything else. And the non-guru

> grhastas on the GBC will have no other duty except managing the Society so

> they will be automatically specialized in that activity. The functions of

> the gurus, sannyasis can be furthur elucidated like done in most

> proposals. There is no need of IBC or anything else.

>

> Vaisnava dasabhas

> Nayana-ranjana das

 

That we should keep things as simple and as decentralised as possible is

clearly reflected in the above reference. Thank you Nayana-ranjana Prabhu

for posting it. The heart of our restructure proposal really is very simple,

but the devil creeps into the detail when we allow things to become too

complicated. Therefore as sadhus we must keep things simple.

 

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