Supreme manager
Lectures
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
All these 110 branches, they are going on under my direction, but not that I am present everywhere. But that does not mean I am not a person. So the supreme, the supreme manager, the supreme controller, how he can be nirākāra? That is my first question.
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Girirāja: So we drafted a will, including the trust for the properties of India and some of the other...
Prabhupāda: Will? Will, there will be direction that "Management should be done like this." That's all.
Girirāja: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Nobody can say in court case that "This temple will be in charge of this person, this temple..."
Rāmeśvara: Yes, just like you said.
Girirāja: So we've included those points and the points in your brief will. Should I read it?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Girirāja: Then we can type it. "I, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, settler of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, and disciple of Oṁ Viṣṇupāda 108 Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Prabhupāda, presently residing at Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma Mandir in Vṛndāvana, make this, my last will.
1. The Governing Body Commission, GBC, will be the trustees of the entire International Society for Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupāda: You can... Then there will be question, "The trust deed will be given? Then there will tax."
Girirāja: No, because the ISKCON trust is already there, and ISKCON is already tax exempt. The only difficulty is if you create a new trust.
Prabhupāda: No, no new trust.
Girirāja: No.
Prabhupāda: Instead of trustees...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Use a different word.
Prabhupāda: Ah!
Rāmeśvara: Not to apply in trust.
Girirāja: Oh, I see.
Rāmeśvara: It's a different word.
Prabhupāda: Supreme managers.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Supreme managers. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Or the ultimate managers, like that.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: The ultimate executives?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, the executors.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Ultimate executors.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Or commissioners. You have...
Prabhupāda: Hm. Yes, commissioners.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Commissioner is good, 'cause it's already...
Prabhupāda: Use such word.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Use a word that's proper.
Girirāja: Okay.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: For now just use one word.
Girirāja: "2: Each temple will be a trust property..."
Prabhupāda: Again "trust" word.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Again "ISKCON property."
Girirāja: Okay, we can change that wording.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Girirāja: "...and will be managed by three committee members."
Prabhupāda: Hm, yes.Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
3. The Society is registered in each and every country as a religious and cultural institution under specific statutes. I am trying to get this institution registered in India also. So far, up to date, actually I am the only superior controller, but as the boys are getting experienced I shall very soon transfer the administration to them, simply keeping myself as an overseer guide. Because I am old man, so I am trying to maintain this standard of management uniformly with the assistance of my grown up students. But actually what we need is to render sincere service to the Lord because ultimately Krsna is the supreme manager. eko bahunam vidhadati kaman, "The Supreme One supplies all the necessities of all the living entities." Actually this is our constitution.
All the devotees strictly follow our regulative principle of 1) no eating of meat, fish or eggs, 2) no illicit sex-life, 3) no taking of intoxicants including coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol, and 4) no gambling. In each center we have a president, secretary and treasurer who manage the local affairs.Page Title: | Supreme manager |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 25 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=3, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 5 |