" 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."
(S.P. Letter to: Karandhara Bombay 22 December, 1972)
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When human beings have lost the capacity to understand difference between civilisation and non-civilisation, good and bad, they have lost everything. There is one pithy saying to know the criterion to understand which is good and bad, beneficial and non-beneficial— `When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; and when character is lost, everything is lost.' Now there is competition of who can become more wealthy, mutual rivalry between haves and have-nots. This wrong conception and rivalry between haves and have-nots have engulfed the whole human race and they are becoming more and more ferocious and murderous. Even some of them have got the ghastly mentality of endeavouring to invent horrible bombs to destroy all living beings. Is it the criterion to understand development of civilization? But this most heinous mentality is spreading like fire very fast, which may ultimately lead to complete destruction. The sensible persons should think now very seriously to save the situation from such devastation. The highest importance should be given now for character building of the human society. The root cause of such venom is false ego— wrong conception of self, consequently causing false interests. Those who have lost the basic knowledge of self-realisation have become completely blind and they are making others blind.
--- His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
KanhaiyaDas Anudas Vikas Chanting Hare Krsna doesn't mean to sit blindly and callously and let the evil spread its roots around you. It means to go out and pull the weeds out, confront the evil and expose and remove its roots like a Kshtraiya - That's the spirit of Bhagwad Gita, which was spoken not in an isolated room - it was spoken in a Battle field in amidst of chaos for Krsna’s Sake….. If someone kills my own father or son or kinsmen, how can I simply sit down and chant????