Category:Our Managers (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
Guiding a rapidly expanding worldwide spiritual institution requires an extraordinary standard of leadership. When instructing his administrators, Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that organizing a transcendental movement is vastly different from running a mundane corporation. He teaches that genuine management is the delicate art of inspiring spontaneous loving service, which can only be achieved when leaders maintain impeccable personal purity, preach vigorously, and remain profoundly meticulous with the society’s resources.
- The Foundation of Purity and Preaching: A successful leader must be a spiritually advanced devotee who actively preaches; otherwise, no one will be genuinely inspired to follow their direction.
- The True Art of Inspiring Devotion: True management is not a heavy-handed bureaucracy, but rather the ability to draw out the spontaneous, loving sacrifice of the congregational members.
- Meticulous Care of Finances: Leaders must be extremely cautious and methodical with the society's resources, as the misuse of funds inevitably leads to material attachment and organizational ruin.
- Empowering and Training New Leaders: To ensure the organic expansion of the mission, senior disciples must actively focus on creating and training new managers rather than centralizing power.
- Divine Protection in Administrative Duty: Engaging in administrative work specifically for the preaching mission generates no mundane karma; Lord Caitanya personally protects any dedicated servant who takes up the burden of management.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Teaches His Disciples the Art of Management.
Pages in category "Our Managers (Disciples of SP)"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- All our managers should be spiritually advanced simple and honest in carrying out the orders of the spiritual master and Krsna. That will be a nice standard
- Any householder devotee who is working full-time (with his wife) as a sankirtana book distributer, of temple managerial duties, artist, cook, etc. shall be provided food, shelter, and other bare minimum necessities by the temple itself
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- I am fearful about what will happen here in my absence; I take this suggestion of yourself a manager of Hare Krishna Land as a very sound idea
- I am not going to manage Spiritual Sky. This is ridiculous. Why they are dragging me into the management. Now the acharya is meant for handling business? Jayatirtha should handle this. He is the manager. Jayatirtha and Karandhara are the chief men
- I am very pleased to hear that Haihaya is doing nicely as manager. He is a good boy. Now train him to be first class manager
- I am writing this letter to inform you that I am now sending Bhagavata dasa brahmacari there to Fiji to be co-manager with your good self. This man is very experienced in the Gujarati communities
- I can understand that you are very methodical and careful to keep proper accounts. That is very good qualification for manager
- I do not want the preaching to be at the expense of managing. Manager must also be a preacher; otherwise who will want to follow him?
- I have already met with Jayapataka Swami and have given him full instructions regarding our Hare Krishna Centre at Haridaspur. So you may contact him and the other local managers at Shree Mayapur regarding your effort
- I know that you are in need of constantly working the press and the press is constantly in need of being worked. If you are individually the manager of ISKCON Press, I have no objection, but you must work nicely and the GBC will be satisfied
- I think in the future you will have to take charge of managing BTG in consultation with Brahmananda when the press will be started in Boston
- I think you are the most clever manager, better than your husband, because you are organizing temple routine very nicely for serving the deities and this will have very good results for everyone
- If preaching is pure, automatically leaders, managers, funds, everything will be given profusely by Krishna, without any doubt
- If there is no expert manager, you create some manager. That is most important thing, to create
- It is Krsna's desire that Hamsaduta is replaced by you. I have certified that you are our first class temple manager in our society. A little change is invigorating, so try to serve me to the best of your capacity
- It is my confidential advice to you that if he feels any difficulties for money, you may discriminatingly help him, and he should continue as the managing editor
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- That is mosquito and gun. (laughter) Student, you have got four. And managers? Three hundred. One manager requires three rooms, another four rooms. This is waste. One manager, first see at least fifty students. Then you can become manager
- That is the art of management: to draw out spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some energy for Krishna. But where are so many expert managers? All of us should become expert managers and preachers
- The International Society for Krishna Consciousness now has its world center in Navadvipa, Mayapur. The managers of this center should see that twenty-four hours a day there is chanting of the holy names
- 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
- They are both very exemplary devotees, and they are already trained in managing all areas of Sankirtana Party and temple affairs. So their presence will be a great help to you
- They cannot be expert, these men, managers. They are not... They are giving up everything. But as soon as there is big establishment, we require a top manager
- This constantly changing managers is not good. We shall develop more progressively by sticking in one place and working
- 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
- Try to cooperate with Tamala Krishna as far as possible in preparing for the Rathayatra Festival. Tamala is now managing all the Western Coast centers, so please help him to make the Festival a grand success
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- Yes, it certainly requires many leaders to manage the many affairs of a large scale institution, so you must train up whatever men you have got and try to manage this way
- You are the manager there (in New Vrndavana), and in cooperation with the GBC men it is up to you to see that everything is developed very very nicely and that all the land is utilized properly, not that it is sitting going to waste
- You big managers now try to train up more and more some competent preachers and managers like yourselves. Forget this centralizing and bureaucracy
- Your Zone's book distribution is most commendable. It is to your credit as a good manager that there are now no longer any debts to the Book Fund from the Western USA Temples