Srila Prabhupada
Letter to Karandhara, Bombay
December 22, 1972:
[...] Regarding your points about taxation, corporate status, etc., I have heard from Jayatirtha you want to make big plan for centralization of management, taxes, monies, corporate status, bookkeeping, credit, like that. I do not at all approve of such plan. Do not centralize anything. Each temple must remain independent and self-sufficient.
That was my plan from the very beginning, why you are thinking otherwise? Once before you wanted to do something centralizing with your GBC meeting, and if I did not interfere the whole thing would have been killed. Do not think in this way of big corporation, big credits, centralization–these are all nonsense proposals.
Only thing I wanted was that books printing and distribution should be centralized, therefore I appointed you and Bali Mardan to do it. Otherwise, management, everything, should be done locally by local men. Accounts must be kept, things must be in order and lawfully done, but that should be each temple’s concern, not yours.
Krishna Consciousness Movement is for training men to be independently thoughtful and competent in all types of departments of knowledge and action, not for making bureaucracy.
Once there is bureaucracy the whole thing will be spoiled. There must be always individual striving and work and responsibility, competitive spirit, not that one shall dominate and distribute benefits to the others and they do nothing but beg from you and you provide. No.
Never mind there may be botheration to register each centre, take tax certificate each, become separate corporations in each state. That will train men how to do these things, and they shall develop reliability and responsibility, that is the point. I am little observing now, especially in your country, that our men are losing their enthusiasm for spreading on our programmes of Krishna Consciousness movement.
Otherwise, why so many letters of problems are coming, dissatisfied? That is not a very good sign. The whole problem is they are not following the regulative principles, that I can detect. Without this, enthusiasm will be lacking. Even mechanically following, and if he gets gradually understanding from the class, he will come to the point of spontaneous enthusiasm.
This spontaneous loving devotional service is not so easy matter, but if one simply sticks strictly to the rules and regulations, like rising early, chanting 16 rounds, chanting gayatri, keeping always clean–then his enthusiasm will grow more and more, and if there is also patience and determination, one day he will come to the platform of spontaneous devotion, then his life will be perfect. All of this I have told you in Nectar of Devotion.
So I do not think the leaders are themselves following, nor they are seeing the others are following strictly. That must be rectified at once. Each centre remain independent, that’s all right, but the president and other officers must themselves follow and see the others are following the regulative principles carefully, and giving them good instruction so they may understand nicely why this tapasya is necessary.
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Hoping this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS:sda
Replies
Iit seems that Mayapura is the scene of yet another brutal attack on some hapless pilgrim there, this time resulting in murder. We still have not heard what happened to the devotee who disappeared on his way to Mayapura to lodge some complaints awhile ago? Mayapura is also where a devotee was pushed under the Ganges repeatedly, given a little air, from time to time, to recant his views against the GBC.
Since Mayapura is in a remote area and the local government can be paid off, it makes it very difficult to go after the molesters, beaters and murderers there. From what we were told, not only are molesters given prominent posts, but Bhavananda is still an official trustee of the property there. Jayapataka's thugs are also in prominent roles as "temple enforcers" in Los Angeles and elsewhere, where they will: guess what? Beat people up (while Svavasa, Sura and Nirantara snicker nearby gloating over more devotee's blood on their hands?).
We may recall that Jayapataka's thugs stuck guns in devotee's faces and beat devotees up there. Atreya Rsi thought he would be beaten there if he spoke up. Some of Gaura Govinda's folks thought the maharaja was maybe given poison there. Harikesha said that he was given poison at Mayapura. He also said he was given poison "vibhuti" by Jayapataka's tantric black magician. In one incident, Mukunda Goswami looked on in approval of one such ugly scenes of a beating. And of course people who object to the molesters are kicked out by Jayapataka. So many molestations went on there, who knows how much? And Jayapataka makes the worst molester Satadhanya his court spokesman.
Yes, let us face it prabhus, we are dealing with most violent and vicious cult menbers disguised as religious propagandists.
Just think about this for a moment. If the GBC's living goonda project would kill a devotee of Srila Prabhupada, as they apparently have in this hanging incident, and Sulochana, and Taru, and so on and so forth, why would they not also have tried to kill Srila Prabhupada himself? Would they not also kill other devotees, orchestrate molester-con, harass women, kill cows, and ad infinitum too? You betcha!