That we have already fixed, six months to one year.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then a loan where you're paying on time, is that considered a debt?
Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes. That's a loan. That has to be approved. That has to be, as much as possible, avoided. In other words, everything you're doing, more or less, on cash basis.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Atreya Ṛṣi: You don't depend on tomorrow.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Jayatīrtha: Otherwise, sometimes a president may leave, leaving so many debts, so many loans, so many this, so many that.
Atreya Ṛṣi: This is our standard of management. Listen. If the temple president doesn't understand it, teach him.
Jayatīrtha: That's right.
Prabhupāda: That's right. So all these things you write. Otherwise you forget.
Jayatīrtha: Yeah, that, we'll... The next point is to insure that the proper criterion for recommending candidates for initiation be followed...
Prabhupāda: That is being done.
Jayatīrtha: ...and to insure that the...
Prabhupāda: The president recommends, or the GBC recommends.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is there any fixed amount of time that one has to be in the Society to get first, hari-nāma, initiated? Because I...
Prabhupāda: That we have already fixed, six months to one year.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Six months to one year. And for brāhmaṇa initiation?
Rūpānuga: One year, you said, after that.
Prabhupāda: No, within one year. That's all. If one, within one year, one does not become to the standard, then he's unfit.
Atreya Ṛṣi: The recommendation here, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is that...
Prabhupāda: Generally by the president.
Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes, that the president's recommendation is overseeing, is scrutinized, by GBC, so that when Your Divine Grace gets a recommendation, it's been, by someone else, it's been checked. Do you think it's unnecessary?
Prabhupāda: It is.
Atreya Ṛṣi: Unnecessary. Jaya Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: If one is not personally sincere, however he is checked...
Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes, so this is unnecessary.
Prabhupāda: ...then he's useless. Useless.
Atreya Ṛṣi: In other words, an addition, "directly," directly... You know we just have to put down what Prabhupāda... Directly president can...
Prabhupāda: Generally, it is one year after. (?)
Atreya Ṛṣi: Put it down.
Jayatirtha: Right, right.
Prabhupāda: At least not for... (?)
Atreya Ṛṣi: Jayatīrtha, put... "Directly goes..."
Rūpānuga: Śrīla Prabhupāda, after first initiation, one has to wait one year to get second initiation?
Prabhupāda: Six months.
Rūpānuga: At least six months.
Jayatīrtha: Six months after first initiation. All right. So the next role for the GBC man is to act as the designated representative of Śrīla Prabhupāda to settle all philosophic, procedural disputes which may arise and are not settled at the temple level. In other words, any philosophic question a temple president can't ans...
Prabhupāda: No, you... Eh?
Jayatīrtha: If there's some philosophic question and the temple president can't answer it, then the GBC...
Prabhupāda: Then GBC should be consulted. And if the GBC cannot answer, then I'll answer.
Jayatīrtha: Right. Or, if there's some quarrel—one man doesn't like another man, and the temple president can't solve it-then...
Prabhupāda: What is quarrel?
Jayatīrtha: ...the GBC man can solve it.
Prabhupāda: There is no question of quarrel. Quarrel is material.
Jayatīrtha: Yes. But it is the Age of Quarrel.
Prabhupāda: Quarrel is not good.