Category:Managing the Krsna Consciousness Movement
Theme Analysis
Managing a worldwide spiritual organization is not a mundane affair but a vital service that supports the dissemination of Absolute Truth. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that systematic management is essential for a world organization to function effectively, and being absorbed in such administrative thoughts does not mean one is outside of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The establishment of the Governing Body Commission (GBC) was a strategic move to ensure that the society remains managed automatically and that the highest devotional standards are protected. Ultimately, the success of the movement depends on leaders who are spiritually strong—first-class gosvāmīs who follow the instructions of the spiritual master and manage in a way that encourages devotees to remain united rather than breaking away.
- Systematic Spiritual Management: Management is considered part of the spiritual side of the movement, where organization and order are necessary to maintain a global society without overburdening its members.
- The Role of the GBC: The Governing Body Commission was formed by Śrīla Prabhupāda to oversee all affairs of the society, providing him the necessary relief to focus on translating his books and writing.
- Qualifications of Managers: Leaders must be spiritually advanced and cautious, acting as first-class gosvāmīs rather than grhamedhis, to prevent the institution from becoming a place of material attachment or illicit behavior.
- Unity and Future Security: Effective management requires cooperation and the recognition of a central authority, ensuring that the movement remains victorious and continues to protect the interests of the society in the future.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Maintaining Spiritual Standards while Managing the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement.
Pages in category "Managing the Krsna Consciousness Movement"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- I am depending on you leaders for the future of our Society, yet there is all this interest in illicit sex life. This is causing me heartache worrying how things will go on. What can I do?
- I am so glad to understand from you your concern about the managing of our Krsna Consciousness movement. Yes, you are my elder disciple, you are one of the leaders of our Society
- I am very hopeful for this GBC that you will work in such a way that I may be completely relieved from all management of this society
- I have already formed a Governing Body Commission, so in my absence they will manage the affairs of the Society
- I have appointed these GBC men to oversee and manage all the affairs of the society giving me relief to do my translation work fully
- I have been requesting my disciples for sometime to release me from the management aspects of ISKCON so I can be free to translate
- I have formed this GBC for that purpose, to keep the devotional standards at the highest level and at the same time to manage a world-wide organization
- If our temples cannot even be maintained then it is a great defect in our management of the society. Neither can I be expected to deal in these matters and also pay attention fully to the translating of my books
- If there are any defects within our Society it is only symptom that the instructions of the Spiritual Master are being neglected
- If you the elder disciples cannot manage things, then what is the future of the society? My business now is to sit down and write my books, and I am requesting you all to please cooperate with me in this endeavor
- If you want to transfer the Trust to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the Society will do everything for the improvement of the Temple and also engage you as paid whole time manager on behalf of the Society
- In connection with our ISKCON project in Fiji, I beg to inform you that we are managing our Krishna Consciousness Movement by the Governing Body Commission, GBC
- In Kali-yuga, everything should be managed by society
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- Now my desire is that I completely devote my time in the matter of writing and translating books, and arrangement should now be done that our Society be managed automatically
- Now we are world organization. There is spiritual side, and there is material side also. That is not material side. That is also spiritual side, means systematic management. Otherwise how it will be done?
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- That one is absorbed in thoughts of such management (of the Krsna Consciousness Movement) does not mean that he is outside of Krsna consciousness
- The managers of the Krsna consciousness movement should be extremely cautious in regard to this point. Otherwise money will be the cause of lamentation, illusion, fear, anger, material attachment, material poverty, and unnecessary hard work
- The news that the Mahant of the Sri Beni Madhava temple is thinking of turning the management over to the Krsna Consciousness Movement, is very welcome
- The system of management will go on as it is now. There is no need of changing. The money which is in my personal name in different banks, that is being spent for the society, and it will be society property
- This is the biggest institution of spiritual activities so everyone of us should be spiritually strong. Otherwise, superficially if we want to manage, it will not be possible
- Those who are managers of this institution, they must always know that we cannot make this institution or this center as a brothel. There must be such management and or such arrangement that we must have always good association for advancement
- Those who will manage this institution, they must be first-class gosvamis. This is my proposition. Not grhamedhi