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Management, that is in your hands. Who will give you management? You have to manage local - local men

Expressions researched:
"Management, that is in your hands. You have to . . . who will give you management? You have to manage local—local men"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: You go early in the morning and do something. If it is favorable . . . just like in Bengal they are doing. Get good reception. You have heard it?

Haṁsadūta: Yes, I heard.

Prabhupāda: Very good reception.

Haṁsadūta: Villagers give the best reception.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Haṁsadūta: Because they're . . .

Prabhupāda: Still.

Haṁsadūta: They're still faithful to culture.

Hari-śauri: Unless we get the farm, this farming scheme set up within the next . . .

Prabhupāda: We are getting so many.

Hari-śauri: We're getting the farms, but we haven't got the management, so . . .

Prabhupāda: Management, that is in your hands. You have to . . . who will give you management? You have to manage local—local men. Bon Mahārāja was failure that he could not get the local men. But I did not try to bring men from India and preach in England or America.

Akṣayānanda: Hmm.

Prabhupāda: How it is possible? The British Empire was established on management. They did not bring men from England. Few managers, that's all. That is called management. One man can control hundreds and thousands of men, and that is management.

Haṁsadūta: For us there is no problem, Prabhupāda, but it may be difficult for Your Divine Grace.

Prabhupāda: No, what is difficult? (laughter) But I want to do something for India in the village. So that I . . . that, we are getting lands, making one center, we can go here and there, not continually. Suppose here is a center, we go sometimes this side, sometimes this side, sometimes come back again.

Haṁsadūta: Um hmm.

Hari-śauri: Find one good camping spot.

Prabhupāda: Yes. You go early in the morning and do something. If it is favorable . . . just like in Bengal they are doing. Get good reception. You have heard it?

Haṁsadūta: Yes, I heard.

Prabhupāda: Very good reception.

Haṁsadūta: Villagers give the best reception.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Haṁsadūta: Because they're . . .

Prabhupāda: Still.

Haṁsadūta: They're still faithful to culture.

Hari-śauri: Unless we get the farm, this farming scheme set up within the next . . .

Prabhupāda: We are getting so many.

Hari-śauri: We're getting the farms, but we haven't got the management, so . . .

Prabhupāda: Management, that is in your hands. You have to . . . who will give you management? You have to manage local—local men. Bon Mahārāja was failure that he could not get the local men. But I did not try to bring men from India and preach in England or America.

Akṣayānanda: Hmm.

Prabhupāda: How it is possible? The British Empire was established on management. They did not bring men from England. Few managers, that's all. That is called management. One man can control hundreds and thousands of men, and that is management.

(long pause)

Prabhupāda: Locally attracted. These Britishers came here, they introduced this zamindarī system.

Haṁsadūta: The what?

Prabhupāda: Zamindarī system.

Haṁsadūta: Zamindar.

Prabhupāda: Landlord.

Haṁsadūta: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So any third-class man, if he's given some land, naturally he will be very much pleased. They created that aristocracy. So he selected some men that, "You give me four annas per bīghā, and whatever you can collect, that is your." That is the old system in India, zamindarī system.

Page Title:Management, that is in your hands. Who will give you management? You have to manage local - local men
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-12-20, 11:45:24.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1