Advice for ISKCON management
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Bhakti Vikasa Swami
Aug 5, 2026, 3:57:13 AMAug 5
to BVKS Sanga, (Krsna) Katha, (ISKCON) Lipa Dalmacija, Prabhupada Said
Regarding incorporation of our ISKCON centers, we want to run all our
centers as nonprofit religious organizations; that is the main point.
Keeping this point in view too much official control is not good in
spiritual life. The centers should remain spiritually fit and independent.
Some control must be there as is now. Too much control means so many
vouchers. Gradually it will become a mundane institution. 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. Democracy
in spiritual affairs is not at all good but breeds power politics. We should
be careful about power politics. Our only aim should be that each and every
devotee is full dedicated to Krsna, then things will go on nicely.
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From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Karandhara -- 19 July, 1973
centers as nonprofit religious organizations; that is the main point.
Keeping this point in view too much official control is not good in
spiritual life. The centers should remain spiritually fit and independent.
Some control must be there as is now. Too much control means so many
vouchers. Gradually it will become a mundane institution. 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. Democracy
in spiritual affairs is not at all good but breeds power politics. We should
be careful about power politics. Our only aim should be that each and every
devotee is full dedicated to Krsna, then things will go on nicely.
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From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Karandhara -- 19 July, 1973
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